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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 172, 25 July 1867, Page 2

The fact that no less than five out of eleven Acts passed by the Provincial Council of Wellington, and assented to by the Superintendent of that province, have been " disallowed " by his Execllency the Governor, has been officially notified in the General Government Gazette. The following are the Acts which have been disallowed : — The Protection of certain Animals Act, An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, The Wanganui Bridge Amendment Act, The Fencing Act, and the District Highways Act, A lengthy correspondence addressed by the Premier to the Superintendent of Wellington, in reference to the several defects in these Acts, has beeu laid before Parliament. In connection with this subject we may perhaps be permitted to remark, with some pride, that only one bill passed by the Nelson Provincial Council has ever been disallowed by the Governor, a fact which speaks volumes for the pains bestowed by our Provincial Solicitor on the drafting, &c, of the various bills presented to the Council. The one to which we allude was the Gold-fields Road Act, passed by the Council last session; and it is only fair to state that the objections made to the Act were founded on clauses contained in former Acts, and which, curiously enough, are actually in force at the present moment in the provisions of the Country Eoads Act. The salary of the Superintendent of Otago, relative to which some discussion took place in the Council at an early stage of the Estimates, has, we find, been raised from £1000 to £12l)0 per annum, and that of the Provincial Secretarj'- from £boo to £800 per annum.