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.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that

GEORGE CUTFIELD, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and that His Excellency the Governor has in Her Majesty’s name, accepted such resignation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by the undermentioned officer, viz. :

Lieutenant Charles J. Hutchison,
Taranaki Militia.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
(in the absence of Colonel Haultain.)

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the undermentioned officer, viz. :

Lieutenant Jonathan Bear, Taranaki Militia.

JOHN HALL,
(In the absence of Colonel Haultain.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1867.

THE following Ordinance passed by the Provincial Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of Taranaki, for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, intituled—

“The Waiwakaiho Bridge Loan Ordinance, 1867;”

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to withhold his assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Lieut.-Colonel MAXWELL LEPPER,

to command the Militia and Volunteers in the Patea District.

E. W. STAFFORD,
(in the absence of Colonel Haultain.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN DUNN,

of Taranaki, to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, and to be a person with whom shall be deposited certain copies or models of the standard weights and measures of the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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

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

JOHN HALL.

TARANAKI.

Charles Freer Crawford to be Postmaster at Oakura, from 1st April, 1867.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned appointment, viz. :

In the Taranaki Light Infantry Volunteers.

Patrick J. O’Carroll to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon. Date of commission, 8th April, 1867.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

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