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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

J. W. Murdoch, Esq., appointed Registration
and Returning Officer for District of
Hampden.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 21st February, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

JOHN WALLACE MURDOCH, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for
the election of Members of the House of
Representatives, for the Electoral District of
Hampden.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Jackson Keddell, Esq., appointed Returning
Officer for Election of Gold Field Repre-
sentatives, Otago.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 21st February, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

JACKSON KEDDELL, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the election of
Gold Field Representatives in the Province of
Otago.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Edward Musgrave, Esq., appointed Regis-
tration and Returning Officer for District
of Bruce.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 21st February, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

EDWARD MUSGRAVE, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for
the election of Members of the House of
Representatives for the Electoral District of
Bruce.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Resident Magistrate appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 23rd February, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

HENRY CHARLES LAWLOR, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 24th February, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER BACK, Esq.,
of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury,
to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 27th February, 1863.
THE following Circular from the Board of
Trade is published for general information.
The Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Act,
1862, will shortly be published in the Colony.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Circular No. 162.
BOARD OF TRADE.
25th September, 1862.

SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTIONS
TO OFFICERS IN THE
BRITISH POSSESSIONS ABROAD.

Merchant Shipping Acts, &c. Amendment
Act, 1862.
25 & 26 Vict. c. 63.

The attention of Officers in H.M. Possess-
ions abroad is directed to the following provis-
ions of the above Act, a copy of which is sent
with this Circular.

Section 19. Provides that Seaman's wages
paid abroad shall if possible be paid in mouey,
and not by bill. It also gives facilities for
recovering on bills drawn for payment of wages.
Special care should be taken that such an en-
dorsement as is required. by Section 209 of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, is made upon
the bill by the Officer duly appointed in that
behalf.

Section 20. Provides that the wages and
effects of Seamen who have belonged to a
British ship within six months of the time of
their death shall, if their death happens abroad,
be treated in the same manner as the wages and
effects of Seamen dying on board.

This would not, however, apply to the case
of a Seaman dying in the Colony or Possession
to which he belongs, or in which his relations
reside.

Section 21. Affords facilities for the recovery
of wages due to men who are lost with their
ship.

Section 22. Enacts that the claim of Seamen
to be relieved abroad or sent home in pursuance
of Sections 211 and 212 of the Merchant
Shipping Act, 1854, shall be subject to such
regulations and dependent on such conditions
as the Board of Trade may from time to time
make or impose.

Section 23. Gives to Courts of Inquiry duly
instituted in any British Possession to investi-
gate the cause of wreck or the conduct of
Masters, Mates, and Engineers in the British
Merchant Service, the power (hitherto ex-
clusively exercised by the Board of Trade) of
cancelling or suspending certificates of com-
petency or service; and

Section 24. Gives such Courts the power,
which they did not previously possess, of
demanding the delivery to them of a certificate
pending the trial of the offender.

My Lords desire particularly to impress upon
all Officers and Functionaries in the Colonies
and Possessions abroad concerned in the conduct
of the inquries above referred to the necessity
of a rigid compliance with the requirements in