SUB-TREASURERS

In various Provinces to receive Petitions under "Patents Act, 1860."

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 24th June, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the Sub-Treasurers in the various Provinces (except Auckland, where Dr. Knight holds the appointment), to receive petitions from persons desirous of obtaining Letters Patent under the Patents Act, 1860.

(Signed) ALFRED DOMETT.
G. G. Gazette, No. 26, July 4, 1863.

POSTAL.

The Chief Post Office of the Province of Canterbury to be Transferred from Lyttelton to Christchurch.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 27th June, 1863.

NOTICE is hereby given, that on and after the 1st of January, 1864, the Chief Post Office of the Province of Canterbury will be removed from Lyttelton to Christchurch.

(Signed) READER WOOD,
For the Postmaster-General.
G. G. Gazette, No. 26, July 4, 1863.

APPOINTMENT OF MERCANTILE ASSESSORS,
Under the "Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862."

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 9th June, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Mercantile Assessors under "The Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862," for the respective Provinces set opposite their names:—

• GEORGE BUCKLEY, Esq.
  J. DRUMMOND MACGREGOR, Esq.
  THOMAS RYTON, Esq.
  WILLIAM DAY, Esq.

ALFRED DOMETT.
G. G. Gazette, No. 28, June 18th, 1863.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Acts passed by the General Assembly which Her Majesty has not been advised to disallow.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 30th June, 1863.

THE following Acts passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in the Session held in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled:—

"An Act to authorise the issue of Crown Grants in certain cases."
"An Act for amending the law relating to the unlawful occupation of Demesne Lands of the Crown, and for appointing Commissioners of Crown Lands."

"An Act to provide for payment by the Colonial Treasurer to Provincial Treasuries of certain Provinces of sums paid to him under the Land Revenue Appropriation Act, 1858, for the extinguishment of Native Title to Lands in such Provinces."

"An Act to amend an Act to appropriate the Revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand."

"An Act to amend the Militia Acts," having been laid before the Queen in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution Act, His Excellency the Governor has been informed by the Secretary of State, that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to those Acts.

(Signed) ALFRED DOMETT.
G. G. Gazette, No. 26, July 4, 1863.

DISPATCH
From the Secretary of State, as to Collection of Aërolites for the British Museum.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
New Plymouth, 20th May, 1863.

THE following Dispatch, with its Enclosures, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Downing Street, Feb. 9th, 1863.

Sir,—I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Deputy Principal Librarian of the British Museum, expressing the desire of the Trustees of that Institution to obtain, as an accession to their present collection of Aërolites, such specimens as may in future come into possession, or be procurable by the public functionaries in the British Colonies. I also transmit to you copies of two papers referred to in the enclosed letter, and I should be glad if you would make the contents of these papers known in the Colony under your Government, in such a manner as may be best calculated to forward the views of the Trustees, and also that you would render any assistance in your power in furtherance of the same object.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey,
&c., &c., &c.

Mr. Winter Jones to the Duke of Newcastle.

British Museum, Jan. 26th, 1863.

MY LORD DUKE,—I have the honor to acquaint your Grace, that the Trustees of the British Museum have had under consideration the advantageous results which might be expected in accessions to the fine collection of Aërolites now in the Museum, were measures taken to obtain for the National Institution such Aërolites as may in future come into the hands of, or be procurable by the public functionaries in the British Dominions abroad, and Her Majesty’s Representatives in Foreign Countries. With this object, the papers of which I have the honor to enclose copies, were drawn up, and