such successor in office shall continue and remain Superintendent of the said Province, and no longer.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. Grey, Governor

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the eighth day of January, 1868.

Present:

THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Marine Act, 1867,” it is enacted that the Governor may by Order in Council, from time to time, delegate all or any of the powers and authorities rested in him by the said Act, unto any person or persons, for any period, and subject to any regulations, restrictions, or stipulations which may be specified in such Order, and every such delegation may from time to time alter or revoke, and also that any such delegation may be so made to any person holding office in or under the General Government of New Zealand, or in or under any Provincial Government thereof, by the title of his office, and may be therein expressed to be made to such officer and his successors in such office, and when so expressed to be made, the powers and authorities thereby delegated shall from time to time, until revocation thereof, be held and exercised only by the person for the time being holding such office and no other person;

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby delegate unto each of the Collectors of Customs at the ports of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Napier, Nelson, Blenheim, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Invercargill, and his successors in office, the powers conferred on the Governor by section eighteen of the said Act to exempt from pilotage such colonial trading vessels as to such Collector for the time being shall seem proper to be so exempted in all cases in which such vessels require to be exempted for the ports of the Province only in which such Collector for the time being is stationed: the fees received for any pilotage exemptions to be accounted for and treated as pilotage dues.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 17th February, 1868.

It is hereby notified that the piece of ground specified below has been temporarily reserved under Clause XVI. of the “Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865.”

John P. Taylor,
Superintendent.

ORETI RAILWAY STATION RESERVE.

In Block IX., New River Hundred, containing five acres, being part of section No. 43, bounded on the north by a public road, 5 chains; on the west by the fence on the east side of the Oreti Railway, 10 chains; on the south by a line parallel to the north boundary, five chains; and on the east by a line parallel to the west boundary, ten chains.

SHEEP INSPECTOR’S REPORT.

Sheep Department,
Invercargill, Dec. 31, 1867.

His Honor the Superintendent.

Sir,—I have the honor to forward for your information the returns of sheep within the Province of Southland for the year ending 30th September, 1867. The gross total is 434,336. Of this number, 1285 have been imported by sea from Great Britain and the Australian colonies, and 44,600 have crossed over the border from the adjacent provinces of New Zealand.

Amongst the merinos imported are 55 rams, picked from the highly esteemed flock of R. Kermode, Esq., Tasmania, for P. M’Kellar, Esq., Longridge, Waimea—a first-class lot. Two really fine rams imported to Victoria, and brought to Southland by A. J. Smyth, Esq., Hokanu; these, I believe, have a good dash of the Negretti. 133 ewes, imported from New South Wales by F. Wentworth, Esq., are a very fine lot, though not as even a lot as could be desired. Three rams imported from Victoria by G. M. Bell, Esq., Waimea Plains, are really fine stock; one ram especially, though old, is worthy of notice. The same gentleman has also brought from Victoria 1000 pure merino ewes of a superior class.

In Leicesters, 35 picked ewes have been imported by F. Wentworth, Esq., Waimea, and 80 rams by the Messrs Shand, Winton Estate. These are all good long-wools.

Of Lincolns, two rams imported from Great Britain for W. Martin, Esq., (very good), and two rams and seven ewes imported direct from Great Britain by...