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Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1499, 22 February 1861, Page 3

CLAY POINT. JWARMOLL continues to supply the Best Mattresses at the very Lowest • Price, made of Horse Hair, Wool, Flock, or Flax. Paliasses, Feather Pillows, &c, Mattresses, Couches, &c, re-stuffed and newly covered. Every article in the Trade sold cheap. Good Furniture in variety, equally reasonable. CHEAP BEDS FOR SHIPPING.

From the Provincial Government Gazette. At the Government Souse, at Auckland, the First day of February y 1861. Present, — His Excrlt.excy the GovEiwson in Council. ■WHEREAS by an Act of the General * * Assembly intituled the "Arms Act, 1860," it is enacted. that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to declare by order in Council to be published in- the New Zealand Gazette that from and after a day to be named in such order the said Act shall be in force in any province within the Colony and the same shall be in force accordingly: Provided always that the same shall be brought into force within every Province of the Colony before the first day of March, 1861: Now therefore, His. Excellency the Governor with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order that the said Act shall be in force in all the Provinces of the Colony on the twentieth day of February, instant. F. G. Steward. * Clerk of Executive Council. ~ For the Dissolution of the Provincia Council of the Province of Wellington. _ ijy His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of €lie Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, &c, &c, &c. T^THEREAS by an Act of the Impe- * rial . Parliament, passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, Cap. seventy two, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," the several Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago are thereby established, and it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there shall bo a Superintendent and Provincial Council. And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that every Provincial Council shall continue for the period of four years from the day of return of the writs for choosing the same and no longer. Provided always that it shall "be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand, by Proclamation or otherwise, to dissolve the same whenever he shall think it expedient so to do. Now therefore I, the Governor of the Colony of )^e\Y Zealand, do by this Proclamation dissolve the Provincial Council of the said Province of Wellington accordingly. Given under ray hand at the Go- ■ vernment House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this second day of February, in - the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixtyone. Thomas Gore Browne. By His Excellency's command, Henry John Tancred. God Save the Queen. Provincial Secretary's Office, ' . Wellington, Bth. February, 1861. FIIHE following Notices are re-published -*- from ' the New Zealand Gazette, of the 6th December, 1860. By His Honor's command, William Fi tziierbert, Provincial ' Secretary. Notice under the "Purchas and Ninnis Fuix Patent Act, I860." Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 6tb December, 1860. "WHEREAS Arthur Guyon Purchas ■** of the Onelmnga, in the County of Eden,, iil the Province of Auckland, Clerk, and James Ninnis of the same plnce, Mining Engineer, having on the 10th .day of October last, delivered at the Office of the Colonial Secretary the petition, and deposited the specification, description, and other matters directed to be so delivered and deposited by the " Purchas and Ninnis Flax Patent Act. 1860," of and concerning a certain invention for the preparation of the Fibre of the' Phormium Tenax and other plants for manufacturing purposes, I, Edward William Stafford, Colonial Secretary oi New Zealand, hereby give notice thai the said .Arthnr Guyon Purchas anc James isfmnis" have, under the proviiion^ of the said Act during the term of Y. months from the said lOfch day of .October, the like projection, rights, powers and privileges, as could be ' conferred