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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1867.

THE following letter from Dr. Müeller, Director of
the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, is published
for general information.

J. RICHARDSON,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Melbourne Botanical Gardens,
25th December, 1866.

SIR GEORGE,-Aware of your Excellency's vivid
interest in all that concerns the development of
prosperity and industry in your fair isles, I anticipate
you will be pleased to see the enclosed small sample*
of paper prepared in my phytochemical Laboratory
from the fibre of Phormium tenax. Neither fire nor
bleaching substances have been applied to it, and
inasmuch as I have no proper apparatus for pressure
nor have the means of working with larger quantities
of material, the paper thus produced is far inferior
in quality to that really obtainable from this source.

In fact good writing paper may be produced from
Phormium, and this will probably be the purpose for
which the plant will be turned really to commercial
account.

In the Intercolonial Exhibition I have now about
thirty different kinds of paper from barks, foliage,
grasses, sedges, &c., and all these are in vast abund-
ance available. The paper made of the bark of the
Stringybark (Eucalyptus) seems to be the most
important.

Let me remain, dear Sir George,

Yours very regardful,

FERD. MUELLER.

His Excellency Sir G. Grey, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S.,
Governor of New Zealand.

The percentage of tar, &c., I obtained from ten
kinds of our common trees is also quite encouraging
for new industries. I am now engaged in causing
the tannic acid to be determined in a lot of barks;
and the thirty essential oils I exhibited in 1862, have
lead to a large export trade, the hypogaeous Kauri
resin dissolving in Eucalyptus oil with facility, and
it being useful for very many other purposes, and on
a large scale most cheaply obtainable.

I am just concluding the fifth volume of my
Fragmenta, and in England, at Christmas, the third
volume of the Flora Aust: will have appeared.

• The sample referred to is deposited in the Colonial Museum,
  at Wellington.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HOWARD REES, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Oxford, in the
Province of Canterbury.

The above appointment to take effect on the first
day of February, 1867.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint following gentlemen to be Regis-
trars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, for the districts set opposite their names
respectively, in the Province of Canterbury:—

Harry Kenrick, Esq., Greymouth.
Samuel Beswick, Esq., Hokitika.
Francis Harris, Esq., Cobden.

The above appointments to take effect on the
first day of February, 1867.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1867.

THE following Acts passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Auckland, intituled—
"The Auckland Building Act, 1858, Extension
Act, 1866;"
"The Distress Act, 1866;"
"The Turnpike Act, 1866, Amendment Act,
1866;"
"The Toll Exemption Act, 1866;"
"The Empowering Act, 1866, No. 2;"
"The Appropriation Act, 1867;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

WM. FITZHERBERT,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th January, 1867.

THE following regulations respecting Travelling
Allowance are published for the information of
Officers of the General Government travelling on the
public service and entitled to travelling allowance.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
(for the Colonial Secretary).

Travelling Allowances.

The following regulations respecting the issue of
travelling allowances to Public Officers travelling on
the public service and entitled to travelling allowance
will henceforward be in operation:

1. Ministers and Judges of the Supreme Court to
   receive travelling allowance at the rate of two
   guineas per diem. Transport by land or sea to be
   provided by the Government. At sea, an allowance
   of five shillings only per diem will be sanctioned.

2. All other officers to receive travelling allowance
   at the daily rate of three shillings and sixpence for
   every one hundred pounds (£100) of the salary
   received by them respectively. No allowance, however,
   to be less than seven shillings and sixpence per diem.
   Transport by land or sea to be provided by Govern-
   ment. At sea, an allowance of two shillings and
   sixpence only per diem will be given.

3. The Government or the officer to have the
   option before the travelling commences, to arrange
   specially that, instead of receiving an allowance, the
   actual expenses reasonably incurred by such officer
   shall be paid by the Government on the production
   of proper vouchers. The Government to decide
   whether or not any expenses in respect of which a
   claim is made have been reasonably incurred.

4. No travelling allowance to be paid unless the
   officer is absent at night from his usual residence,
   but actual reasonable expenses will be paid.

5. No forage allowance will be given, or Govern-
   ment horses be lent to officers in the Civil Service.
   This is not to apply to those Civil Servants for whom
   forage allowance has been specially appropriated by
   the Legislature, or to persons in the Militia Service.

6. When an officer is required to travel on public
   business not pertaining to his Department, a special
   rate of allowance will, if necessary, be fixed before
   the travelling commences.

7. Coroners' mileage allowance, and any allowance
   fixed by law, will remain as at present.

8. In the case of officers removed from one station
   to another, the actual reasonable travelling expenses
   incurred for themselves and their families will be
   paid upon the production of proper vouchers, except
   when that removal has been occasioned at their
   request, or in consequence of any fault on the part
   of the officer removed, or in course of promotion, in
   which case the Minister having control of the
   Department to which the officer is attached, will
   decide what allowance, if any, should under the
   particular circumstances be granted.