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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

to be Wardens and Judges of all Wardens' Courts
now constituted or hereafter to be constituted within
the gold fields of the Province of Canterbury, with
power to them to act alone or with Assessors or
Juries, and to exercise all or any of the powers sub-
sisting and mentioned in the twentieth, twenty-first,
twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-
fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth,
twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-fourth, and fifty-seventh
sections of "The Gold Fields Act, 1862," and all
other powers, duties, and authorities by "The Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863," or "The Gold
Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865," vested in or
imposed on Judges of Warden's Courts.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

relating to products, branches of industry or social
conditions peculiar to New Zealand. In such cases,
where accurate data are not in existence, a probable
proximate estimate may be supplied, and where no
provision has been made special forms may be easily
framed. In all, the actual sources of information
should be stated, and authentic records rendered
from the earliest available periods.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLES.-2. The meteorological
tables should be filled in with observations taken at
the different Government stations; tables compiled
by private observers, and any special observations of
an interesting character relating to prevailing winds,
hurricanes, cyclones, droughts, floods, earthquakes,
tidal waves, currents, electric and magnetic effects,
would also be acceptable.

LANGUAGE.-3. The papers relating to the subject
of Language explain themselves. It is not necessary
that they should be distributed in New Zealand, as
the language of the Natives has been thoroughly
mastered by the Europeans. They are forwarded in
order that you may be informed of the steps being
taken to accomplish what, if carried out as desired,
must prove interesting to philologists. Your own
distinguished labours in this direction, to which
I may be permitted to allude, lead me to trust that
you will favor the Commission with your assistance,
and allow them to hope that they may expect to
receive an ample collection of papers printed by the
direction of Parliament, or prepared under the
authority of the Government of New Zealand, re-
lating to the history, laws, customs, and language of
the Aborigines, together with any works of acknow-
ledged reputation on any of those subjects published
in the country. To these might be added weapons,
implements, and other objects, which illustrate the
manufacturing capabilities of the Natives.

WINE.-4. The form relative to wine was drawn
after consultation with experienced wine growers,
wine makers, and wine merchants, and the mode of
testing the relative qualities of the different vintages
was found to act well in practice. In districts
where the cultivation of the vine has been under-
taken recently, or is conducted partially, it is
particularly important to ascertain the nature and
quality of vine grown. The adaptation of the kind
of grape to the variety of soil may be thus tested,
and the conditions being known under which grapes
of the like sort produce fruit when planted in similar
or different soils, in countries in Europe or else-
where having corresponding climate, inferences may
be drawn useful to all connected with this branch of
industry.

CORN.-5. Information of the same kind might be
supplied, with regard to the cultivation of cereals,
interesting to those engaged in agricultural pursuits.

6. Respecting other matters enumerated in the
   Tables it is not my intention to trespass on your
   Excellency further than to remark that any special
   information relating to them, furnished by the
   producer, manufacturer, or exhibitor, will be thank-
   fully acknowledged. It is hoped that you will be
   pleased to cause the notices, regulations, and appli-
   cations for space to be printed and circulated as
   extensively as possible. Any further information
   which you may desire will be forwarded without
   delay.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,

REDMOND BARRY,
President.

To His Excellency Sir George Grey,
&c., &c., &c.

Governor's Order, No. 66.

G. GREY, Governor.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose
vested by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
I, SIR GEORGE GREY, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the
PORT OF WAIKOUATI,
in the Province of Otago, shall be no longer a Port
of Entry for the purpose, of "The Customs Regula-
tion Act, 1858."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of
the Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and
dated at Wellington, this twenty-fourth
day of March, one thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1866.

THE HE following letter with its enclosures, from Sir
REDMOND BARRY, respecting the proposed Inter-
national Exhibition to be held at Melbourne, is
published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
64 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne,
5th February, 1866.

SIR,-I do myself the honor to transmit to your
Excellency several papers bearing upon matters
connected with the contemplated Intercolonial Ex-
hibition to be held in Melbourne in this year, and
beg leave to call your attention to them with the
hope that you will be pleased to induce the members
of your Government to take active steps in further-
ance of the objects to which they relate, and to favor
the Commission appointed in Victoria with the
assistance so necessary to the success of the under-
taking.

SOCIAL STATISTICS. First in order is a set of
forms relating to the social statistics of the country;
they are designedly ne so comprehensive as to
include almost all the lines of investigation which
inquirers may desire to pursue. Nevertheless,
records may have been kept in New Zealand
respecting some subjects omitted from these tables,
while provision may not have been made for others