Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,

it is among other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein:

And whereas the Act hereinafter specified has been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Act was received by the Governor, on the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Act, passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, namely,—

The Otago Gold Duty Repayment Ordinance, 1871.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

God Save the Queen!

(From New Zealand Gazette, July 23rd, 1874.)

Proclamation of a Public Prison at Arrowtown.

(L.S.)

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled The Prisons Act, 1873, it is provided that the Governor may from time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, declare any house, building, enclosure, or place to be a public prison; and from and after the publication of any such Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, or from any later time specified in the Proclamation, such house, building, enclosure, or place, shall be deemed to be a public prison:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the following house or building to be a public prison:—

The Lock-up at Arrowtown, in the Province of Otago.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE.

God Save the Queen!

(From New Zealand Gazette, July 30, 1874.)

Mayors Elected.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1874.

It is hereby notified, that in conformity with clause 3 of the Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865, the names of the following persons have been sent in to this Office by the Town Clerks as having been elected Mayors for the places set opposite their names, viz.—

• Thomas Slater Pratt — West Hawksbury.
• John Lyon McDonald — Invercargill.
• Samuel Edward Shrimski — Oamaru.
• Andrew McKinnon — Port Chalmers.

DANIEL POLLEN.

(From New Zealand Gazette, August 6, 1874.)

Justices of the Peace appointed under The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th August, 1874.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint:

• David Anderson Jolly, Esq., Mayor of Cromwell;
• Thomas George Butts, Esq., Mayor of Queenstown;
• Alexander Innes, Esq., Mayor of Arrowtown;
• John Lyon McDonald, Esq., Mayor of Riverton;
• Andrew McKinnon, Esq., Mayor of Port Chalmers;
• Thomas Pratt, Esq., Mayor of Invercargill;
• James Samson, Esq., Mayor of Alexandra; and
• Samuel Edward Shrimski, Esq., Mayor of Oamaru,

to be Justices of the Peace under The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE,
Acting Minister of Justice.

(From New Zealand Gazette, August 13, 1874.)

Mayor Elected.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1874.

It is hereby notified, that in conformity with clause 3 of The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865, the name of the following person has been sent in to this Office by the Town Clerk as having been re-elected Mayor for the place set opposite his name, viz.—

Louis William Bissett — Naseby.

DANIEL POLLEN.

(From New Zealand Gazette, August 13, 1874.)

Justices of the Peace appointed under The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th August, 1874.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint:

• Louis William Bissett, Esq., Mayor of Naseby;
• Matthew Hay, Esq., Mayor of Lawrence;
• Benjamin Naylor, Esq., Mayor of Clyde; and
• Keith Ramsay, Esq., Mayor of Dunedin;

to be Justices of the Peace under The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE,
Acting Minister of Justice.

DUNEDIN:

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Coulls & Culling, of Rattray-street, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.