THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
261

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY
OF STATE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th June, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs the
publication of the following Despatches
from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for the Colonies.

WILLIAM FOX.

Downing Street, 23rd March, 1864.

SIR,—I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your Despatch, No. 3 of the 4th
of January, enclosing letters from Colonel
Carey, commanding the Thames Expedition-
ary Force, reporting that he had successfully
performed the duty for which he had been
detached of establishing a line of Military
Posts, and opening the communication be-
tween the Firth of the Thames and the River
Waikato.

I am glad to observe that out of the 843
men under Colonel Carey's command, 340
belong to different Colonial corps, and I
notice with satisfaction the valuable assis-
tance afforded by the Naval Volunteers.

I have also to acknowledge your Despatch,
No. 4 of the 4th of January, enclosing a
report from Captain Jackson, commanding
the Forest Rangers, of his having surprised
a party of Natives in the bush, who were in
possession at the time of a great amount of
property which had been plundered from
Europeans.

I quite concur in Sir D. Cameron's opinion
that Captain Jackson and those who acted
with him deserve great credit for the manner
in which they followed up the track of these
Natives, who were clearly more or less im-
plicated in the outrages which have been
committed.

I have, &c.,

C. FORTESCUE,
In the absence of and by authority
of the Secretary of State.

Governor
Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c.

Downing Street, 8th March, 1864.

SIR,—I have to inform you that Her Ma-
jesty's Government have decided to station a
Consul in the territory of Sarawak, now
governed under the authority of Sir James
Brooke, and that the Queen has been gra-
ciously pleased to confer that appointment
upon Mr. G. T. Ricketts. The special atten-
tion of Mr. Ricketts has been drawn to the
importance of extending British trade in
that portion of Borneo, and he has been
desired to furnish the Governors of Her
Majesty's Possessions in the East and else-
where, and especially the Government of
India, with any information which may be use
ful to the interests of those possessions. I have
accordingly, in announcing the appointment
of Mr. Ricketts, to instruct you to afford him
such support as it may at any time be in

your power to give him in furtherance of
that object.

I have, &c.,

NEWCASTLE.

Governor
Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c.

Downing Street, 9th March, 1864.

SIR,—With reference to my Circular Des-
patch of the 31st of December, 1862,* the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have
informed me that they are of opinion that
there are no longer any grounds for requiring
that the operation of Colonial Acts for the
incorporation of Banking Companies should
be confined to the Colonies by whose legisla-
tures they are passed.

I have, &c.,

NEWCASTLE.

Governor
Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c.

• Published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 19,
  23rd May, 1863, page 237.

E. C. Latter appointed Provincial
Returning Officer.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 11th June, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

EDWARD CIRCUIT LATTER
to be Returning Officer for the Electoral
Districts of Town of Akaroa, Wainui, and
the Bays, for the election of members of the
Provincial Council.

W. Fox.

Enquiries respecting William Peet.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 11th June, 1864.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting
a person named WILLIAM PEET, who
engaged on the 1st April last to drive bul-
locks to the Front, any one who can give
any information concerning such a person,
is requested to communicate the same to this
Office.

W. Fox.

Proclamation by Superintendent of Otago under
"Diseased Cattle Act," republished.

Colonial Secretary's Office.
Auckland, June 11th, 1864.

THE following Proclamation issued by His
Honor the Superintendent of Otago under
the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," is republished
for general information.

W. Fox.

PROCLAMATION,
Prohibiting the Importation of Cattle from the
Colony of Tasmania.

By the Honourable JOHN HYDE
HARRIS, Superintendent of the
Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by Proclamation in the Provincial