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G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the twenty-seventh day of April, 1867.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” (section 4) the Governor may by any Order in Council from time to time, annul, make void, or alter, or vary, and make anew any Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations made and published by the Governor under the authority of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or of this Act, or by the Superintendent of any Province, under or in pursuance of any power delegated to him under any of the powers of delegation contained in the said Act; and whereas by section five of the said Amendment Act “as to regulations, appointments, and prohibitory and other declarations made by Superintendents of Provinces in pursuance of any powers delegated under the powers of delegation contained in the said Act, or this Act, the power of annulling, making void, or allowing, or varying and making anew any such regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations vested in the Governor by this Act, may from time to time be delegated by the Governor in Council by warrant under his hand to the Superintendent of any Province.”

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., in exercise of the power and authority so vested in him as Governor as aforesaid, doth by this Order in Council delegate to

JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esq.,

Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, so long and so long only as he shall continue to be such Superintendent all the powers which by the said fourth section of the said Amendment Act the Governor in Council is authorized so to delegate.

FOSTER GOBING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Note.—Similar delegations issued to the Superintendents of Taranaki, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury and Southland.

G. GREY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulation, and do direct that the same shall be in force within each Gaol of the Colony, from and after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander 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, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD,

Each Prisoner shall be provided with a Bible and Prayer Book, approved by the religious denomination to which the prisoner belongs.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1867.

IN virtue of the powers delegated to the Postmaster-General by His Excellency the Governor, the following appointments have been made in the Postal Service of the Colony.

JOHN HALL.

SOUTHLAND.

James Green, to be Postmaster at Wai-raki, from 1st April, 1867.

Telegraph Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1867.

ON and after the 15th instant, the Telegraph Station at Invercargill will open at Nine a.m. and close at Five p.m. Sunday duty as usual.

JOHN HALL,
Telegraph Commissioner.