19. The Resident Magistrate at any port
    for which no Harbour Master or Health
    Officer is appointed shall have and exercise
    all the powers hereinbefore given to such
    officers.

Schedule A.

Questions required to be answered by the
Master or other person in command of any
ship or vessel arriving in the Port of
from any infected place.

1. What is the tonnage of the vessel, and
   her name?
   Answer.

2. What is the Master’s name, and are
   you the Master?
   Answer.

3. From whence do you come, and when
   did you sail?
   Answer.

4. At what Port have you touched on your
   passage?
   Answer.

5. What vessel have you had intercourse
   or communication with on your passage, and
   from whence did they come?
   Answer.

6. Have you any, and what Bills of Health?
   Answer.

7. Did the Cholera, or any other highly
   infectious and dangerous disease, prevail at
   the place from which you sailed, or at any of
   the places at which you have touched, or on
   board of any vessel with which you have had
   communication? If so, state when and where.
   Answer.

8. In the course of your voyage have any
   persons on board suffered from sickness of
   any kind, what was the nature of such sick-
   ness, and when did it prevail? how many
   persons were affected by it, and have any of
   them died in the course of the voyage.
   Answer.

9. What number of officers, mariners, and
   passengers have you on board?
   Answer.

10. What was the number of persons on
    board your vessel when you sailed?
    Answer.

11. What is the whole number of persons
    now on board your vessel?
    Answer.

12. If there be no sickness now on board
    when did the last attack of disease appear,
    and when did it entirely disappear?
    Answer.

G. G. Gazette, No. 2, January 18, 1864.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors’ and
Creditors’ Act, 1862;" and
In the matter of the Estate of Thomas
Gorthorn Rule, of Sumner Road,
Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury,
in the Colony of New Zealand,
commission agent, previously livery
stable keeper, commission agent, and
blacksmith, formerly in co-partnership
with James Rule, trading under the
name or style of Rule, Brothers, as
livery stable keepers, commission agents,
blacksmiths, and veterinary surgeons, a
debtor, not in custody; and
In the matter of the Petition of the said
debtor.

In Chambers:

This Twenty-first day of June, 1864.

Upon the application of Mr. Slater of
Counsel for the said petitioner, Thomas
Gorthorn Rule, after reading the said Pe-
tition, purporting to be signed by the said
petitioner, such debtor as aforesaid, and to
be concurred in by Samuel Skilling, of Dur-
ham-street, Christchurch aforesaid, black-
smith, a creditor to the extent of not less
than fifty pounds in the whole, and also
certain schedules, and also an affidavit to
the said Petition annexed, and therewith
filed on the Eighteenth day of June, pur-
suant to the said Act, this Court, being
satisfied of the truth of the matters con-
tained in the said Petition, doth hereby
grant an ad interim order of sequestration
of the estate and effects of the said Thomas
Gorthorn Rule, and doth direct that the
estate and effects of the said Thomas
Gorthorn Rule shall be taken and held by
Henry Fowle Seager, of Christchurch,
printer, as receiver under the said Act,
hereby appointed by the Court, subject to
such further order of the Court as may be
made under or in pursuance of the provi-
sions of this Act: And this Court doth
hereby appoint Monday, the Fifteenth day
of August next, at eleven o’clock in the
forenoon, for the hearing of such Petition
and the proofs of debts and claims of cre-
ditors, at the Court House, Christchurch
aforesaid: And the Court doth also further
order and grant an ad interim order of pro-
tection to protect the person and estate of
the said Thomas Gorthorn Rule from arrest,
execution, or legal process until further
orders of this Court.

By the Court,

Christopher Alderson Calvert,
Registrar.

Francis Slater,
Solicitor to the Petition,
Christchurch.

CHRISTCHURCH:

Printed, under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the ‘Press’
Office, Cashel-street, by James Edward Fitzgerald, Official Printer for the time being to the said
Government.