General Authority to institute Proceedings under the Arms Act, 1860.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

IN pursuance of the power for this purpose vested in me under the “Arms Act, 1860,” I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint William Fraser, Chief Officer of the Police, in the Province of Southland, to be a person by whom and at whose instance, Indictments and Informations shall be preferred, or Proceedings instituted against any person for any offence by the said Act declared to be a Felony or Misdemeanor.

Witness my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.

Auckland, 5th September 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the Speaker of the Provincial Council of the Province of Southland has reported that

JAMES ALEXANDER ROBERTSON MENZIES

has been duly elected Superintendent of that Province under the provisions of the “New Provinces Act, 1858.”

WILLIAM FOX.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 5th September, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that Writs issued for the election of Members of the Provincial Council for the Province of Southland have been returned with certificates to the effect that,—

For the District of Mataura—
James Alexander Robertson Menzies,

For the District of Campbelltown—
Alexander M’Nab,

For the District of Waihopai—
John Clarke M’Kay,
James Wilson,
Walter Henry Pearson,

For the District of Invercargill—
Nathaniel Chalmers,
Robert Stuart,
William Francis Tarlton,

For the District of Riverton—
Henry M’Culloch,

For the District of New River—
Freeman Rayney Jackson,
Matthew Scott,

have been duly elected.

WILLIAM FOX.

Treasury Auckland,
5th September, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following person to be Licensing Officer under the provisions of the “Arms Act, 1860.”—

At Invercargill—A. J. ELLES, Esq., Sub-Collector of Customs,

READER WOOD.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Regulations respecting delegation of powers to Superintendents under “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
THE SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1860.

Present:—

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Warrants under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, bearing date the sixth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the Governor did with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegate to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, certain powers conferred on him by the ‘Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,’ subject to certain Regulations to be made by the Governor in Council, under the recited Act;

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, by virtue of the authority given to him by the 14th section of the above-recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following Regulations:—

1. The Delegation of Powers under the said Warrants shall continue to be in force for the period of one year from this date, subject to be rescinded according to the provisions of the above-recited Act.

2. Each Superintendent shall, immediately after exercising any of the Delegated Powers, notify the same to the Governor, and he shall transmit to the Governor particulars of all Appointments, and copies of all Regulations made by him.

3. He shall, so soon as conveniently can be, notify all Regulations made by him to the Colonial Secretary, or Chief Secretary of each of the Australian Colonies, and cause the same to be published in England in the Times newspaper.

4. In the exercise of powers, delegated under the 9th section of the said Act, the Superintendent of any Province may either in the first instance, or afterwards from time to time by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province, except out of any District proclaimed as infected under the said Act, any Port or Place within the limits of such District. And every such excepted Port and Place shall be deemed not to be within the proclaimed District; and the Superintendent may also from time to time by Proclamation as aforesaid rescind any