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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

W. H. Pilliet, Esquire, J. P., appointed Resident
Magistrate.

Attorney General's Office,
Auckland, 1st August, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WALTER HIPPOLYTE PILLIET, Esquire, J. P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate.
FREDERICK WHITAKER.

Alexander Mackay, Esquire, J. P., appointed Resident
Magistrate.

Attorney General's Office,
Auckland, 17th August, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ALEXANDER MACKAY, Esquire, J. P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate.
FREDERICK WHITAKER.

Wilson Gray, Esq., J.P., appointed a Resident
Magistrate.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 19th August, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint
WILSON GRAY, Esquire, J.P.,
of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, to be a Resi-
dent Magistrate.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Appointment of Crown Solicitors.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 25th August, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Frederick Ward Merriman, Esq., of Auckland, in
the Province of Auckland,
Arthur Standish, Esq., of New Plymouth, in the
Province of Taranaki,
John Nathaniel Wilson, Esq., of Napier, in the
Province of Hawke's Bay,
Charles Beard Izard, Esq., of Wellington, in the
Province of Wellington,
Hugh Ross, Esq., of Wanganui, in the Province of
Wellington,
Henry Adams, Esq., of Nelson, in the Province
of Nelson,
Thomas Smith Duncan, Esq., of Christchurch, in
the Province of Canterbury,
James Howorth, Esq., of Dunedin, in the Pro-
vince of Otago; and
Thomas Morell Macdonald, Esq., of Invercargill,
in the Province of Southland,
to be Crown Solicitors within the said Provinces
respectively, for the conduct of Prosecutions under
the Regulations of the 23rd day of February, 1864.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Coroners Appointed.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 16th August, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM LAMBERT JACKSON, Esq., of Hokianga,
HENRY WYATT WATLING, Esquire, of the Bay of
Islands,
in the Province of Auckland; and,

HENRY WIDOWSON TURNELL, Esquire, of Colling-
wood,
in the Province of Nelson, to be Coroners, having
jurisdiction within the said Provinces respectively.
FREDERICK WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 30th August, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
direct that the name of George Law, Esq., of
Taupo, shall be removed from the Commission of the
Peace.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Despatches from Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 25th August, 1864.
THE following Despatches from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
are published for general information.
WILLIAM Fox.

Downing Street, 27th June, 1864.
SIR,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your Despatches Nos. 47 and 52, of the 5th and
6th of April, the former enclosing a letter from Sir
Duncan Cameron containing a report of operations
which have been successfully conducted by Colonel
Warre at New Plymouth, resulting in the capture of
the rebel position,—and the latter enclosing copies
of letters and communications which had reached
you relating to an important engagement which had
taken place with the rebel Natives at Orakau on the
Upper Waipa.

I have to express to you the satisfaction with
which I have read these accounts, and I notice with
great pleasure the high terms in which Sir D.
Cameron speaks of the gallant conduct of the officers
and men under his command, and your own expec-
tation that this engagement may aid materially in
bringing this lamentable war to a conclusion.

I take this opportunity of observing that the in-
conveniences to which the Australian Colonies are
exposed from the continued absence of the small
detachments of Troops allotted to them have been
strongly urged upon my attention; and I must
express my earnest hope that in case your anticipa-
tions should be realized, you will not fail to take the
earliest possible opportunity of restoring to New
South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Van
Diemen's Land, the Troops who have been withdrawn
from those Colonies.

I have, &c.,
EDWARD CARDWELL.

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

Downing Street, 2nd June, 1864.
SIR,—I think it well to communicate to you the
decisions at which Her Majesty's Government have
arrived on certain questions which have arisen res-
pecting the treatment of Prizes captured by Federal
or Confederate Cruisers, if brought into British
waters.

1. If any Prize, captured by a Ship of War of
   either of the Belligerent Powers, shall be brought by
   the captors within Her Majesty's jurisdiction, notice
   shall be given by the Governor to the captors imme-
   diately to depart and remove such prize.

2. A vessel which shall have been actually and
   bona fide converted into, and used as, a public Vessel
   of War, shall not be deemed to be a Prize within the
   meaning of these Rules.