THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
which Ordinance was reserved for the signification
of the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid
before the Governor, His Excellency has been
pleased to assent to the same.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN BOYLE BENNETT, Esq.,
Registrar-General at Wellington, to receive Petitions
from persons desirous of obtaining Letters Patent
under "The Patents Act, 1860."
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Deputy
Returning Officers for the election of members of
the Provincial Council of the Province of Southland,
for the districts set opposite their names respec-
tively :-
FRANCIS WALTER SCOTT, Esq.,
Invercargill, Waihopai, and Roslyn;
EDWARD FIELDER BUTLER, Esq.,
New River and Oreti;
ROBERT PARK MCGOWAN, Esq.,
Campbelltown;
JAMES WALKER BAIN, Esq.,
Waikiwi and Oteramika.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointment under "The
Provincial Audit Act, 1866"-
WILLIAM DORSET, Esq.,
to be Auditor for the Province of Wellington, from
the 1st July, 1867.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 15th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES CHARLES THOMSON, Esq.,
to be Clerk, at Lawrence, of the District Court of
the Otago Gold Fields.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 15th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM STUART, Esq.,
of Invercargill, to be a Registrar of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license
EDWARD EVANS MORTON, Esq.,
Province of Wellington, to be a Surveyor under
"The Native Lands Act, 1865."
JOHN HALL.

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Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept resignation of the Commission held
by the undermentioned Officer, viz.:
Dr. Samuel Beswick, Canterbury Rifle Volun-
teers.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the undermentioned appointments, viz.:
In the Royal Company, Rangitikei Rifle Volunteers.
Thomas Delamere to be Ensign. Date of commission,
1st November, 1865.

In the Nelson Artillery Volunteers.
Honorary Captain Albert Pitt (Nelson Artillery
Cadet Volunteers) to be Captain. Date of
commission, 21st June, 1867.

In the No. 10 (Oxford) Company Canterbury Rifle
Volunteers.
Howard Rees to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon.
Date of commission, 10th June, 1867.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 13th July, 1867.
THE following Report of the Court of Inquiry held
under "The Inquiry into Wrecks Act, 1863," on
the wreck of the s.s. "South Australian," is pub-
lished for general information.
JOHN HALL.

INQUIRY INTO WRECKS.
REPORT on the Wreck of the screw steamship "South
Australian."

To the Honorable the Postmaster-General of New
Zealand.

I, the undersigned, Alfred Chetham Strode, Esq., one
of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and a
Resident Magistrate in and for the Colony of New
Zealand, having been on the fifth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, applied to
by Thomas Hill, Esq., Principal Officer of Customs
at the Port of Dunedin, for a formal investigation
pursuant to Section VII. of "The Inquiry into
Wrecks Act, 1863," and other provisions of the said
Act, respecting the loss of a certain steamship, called
the "South Australian," of the Port of Melbourne,
Victoria, on the second day of April last, on the reef
of rocks lying four miles south of "Cook's Head,"
on the East Coast of Otago, did duly proceed with
the said investigation, to wit, on ninth, tenth,
eleventh and eighteenth days of April, instant, and
had before me and examined on oath divers persons
and witnesses, to wit, Hugh Mackie, master mariner;
Hunter Regnart, chief mate; Henry Mullen, second
mate; John Thomas Nutt, chief engineer; James
Aitken, Magnus Brown, Fowler Masterton, Evan
Davis, seamen (all of the "South Australian" steam-
ship); Francis Dillon Bell, Albert Griffiths, John
Reid Mackenzie, passengers on board; Alexander
McKinnon, master mariner; Spencer Brent, clerk;
John Bell Mudie, merchant; and George Simpson,
master mariner; the original depositions of whose
evidence are hereunto annexed, signed by me, being
assisted therein by William Thomson, Harbour