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Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 168, 25 March 1854, Page 13 (Supplement)

We extract the following from the " Government Gazette" for this Province, published on the 21st inst.:— PItOCIiA MATION. By His Excellency LieutenantColonel Robeet Heney Wynyaed, Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand, &c, &c, &c. WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in- \ tituled an "Act to Grant a Representative f Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall, have been assented to by the Superintendent as in the said recited 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 an Ordinance hath been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, intituled "An Ordi- | nance to empower the Superintendent of t Canterbury to perform certain Acts, heretoi fore performed by the Governor or Lieute--1 nant Governors of New Zealand," Session I, No. 8, and the said Ordinance was received by me on the 24th day of Jauuary, 1854. And Whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinance should be disallowed, Now therefore,!, the Officer Administering the Goi vernment 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 said recited Ordinance. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand at Auckland in the Islands ( aforesaid this twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and in the seventeenth year of the Beign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. R. H. Wynyaed, The Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand. By His Excellency's command, Andeew Sinclaie, Colonial Secretary. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. Superintendent's Office, Christchurch, March 21, 1854. HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the ollowing correspondence for general information. Edwaed Pucexe, Private Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, Jan. 30, 1854. Sir, I have had the honor to receive and submit to. the officer administering the Government, your Honor's letters as noted in