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If the body of a new-born child is found exposed, a constable of the district must give such notice.

If a dead body be found the coroner must give such notice.

Some inmate of the house in which the death shall have happened, shall within 8 days give information, upon being requested to do so, to the Deputy Registrar of the several particulars required to be registered.

In case of an inquest the Jury shall enquire of the said particulars, and the Coroner shall give notice thereof to the Deputy Registrar.

The person giving the information must sign the registry together with his description and place of abode.

The Deputy Registrar, upon registering any death, or as soon afterwards as he shall be required to do so, shall deliver to the undertaker or the person having charge of the funeral, a certificate of the registry, which certificate shall be delivered by the undertaker or other person to the minister who shall bury the body.

If no such certificate shall be given, the Minister, or other person who shall bury the body, shall immediately give notice of the burial to the Deputy Registrar.

The Coroner may order a body to be buried without such certificate.

Fees.—No fees are required for registering deaths.

Penalties.—For not giving notice of a death within ten days, £10.

For burying or performing any religious service at the burial of any dead body without a certificate from the Deputy Registrar or Coroner, and neglecting to give notice of such burial to the Deputy Registrar within one month, £10.

For a Deputy Registrar’s refusing, or without reasonable cause omitting to register any death, £50.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 5, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT is pleased to appoint the following persons to be Arbitrators under the Trespass of Cattle Ordinance, Sess. II, No. 7.

Mr. William Wilson
Mr. John Stace
Mr. Richard Woodford
Mr. George Dury
Mr. Richard Turnbull
Mr. Thomas Adams
Mr. James Rule.

H. G. Goulburn,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 13, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT is pleased to make the following appointments.

Henry Godfrey Goulburn, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools for the Christchurch District.

James Spowers, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools for the Lyttelton District.

John Watson, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools for the Akaroa District.

H. G. Goulburn,
Provincial Secretary.

REWARD.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, May 1, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified, that the Provincial Government is prepared to give a Reward of One Hundred Pounds to any person or persons who shall discover a working vein of good Burning Coal within a mile of the sea, and in an accessible position for shipment. The Reward will not be given unless the Government be satisfied that the above conditions are fulfilled.

H. G. Goulburn,
Provincial Secretary.

Resident Magistrate’s Office,
May 4, 1854.

I HEREBY certify that Burrell Parkinson has this day produced before me his medical diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and has thereby proved himself to be qualified as a medical Practitioner under the Ordinance of the Provincial Council of New Munster, Sess. I. No. 2, passed the 18th of May, 1849, entitled, “An Ordinance to define the qualification, and to provide for the remuneration in certain cases of Medical Practitioners.”

Charles Simeon,
Resident Magistrate.

SEVERAL Schoolmasters will shortly be wanted to take charge of the District Schools to be established by the Provincial Government.

Persons desirous of applying for such situations are requested to send in their applications to the Rev. O. Mathias, Commissary of the Lord Bishop of New Zealand.

Every application must state the age, and previous occupation of the applicant;