THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 447

Head Office. County.
St. Sidwell's, R.O. Exeter... Devon.
St. Thomas, R.O. Oxford Oxford.
Shawberry Shrewsbury Salop.
Shore Road, R.O. Douglas Isleof Man
Spofforth Tadcaster York.
Stanstead St. Margaret's Ware Hertford.
Stockton Road, R.O. Middlesbrough York.
Terrington St. John's Lynn Norfolk.
Tharfield Royston Hertford.
Totterdown Bristol Somerset.
Turner's Hill Crawley Sussex.
Warcop Penrith West-
moreland
Waterworks Street, R.O. Hull York.
Weldon Wansford North-
ampton.
West Cornforth Ferryhill Durham.
West End, R.O. Ashton-under-Lyne, Chester
Wilson Street, R.O. Middlesbrough York.
Windmill Hill Gateshead Durham.
Woore Newcastle Stafford.
Wragby... Wakefield York.
Wreckenton Gateshead Durham.
Wroughton Swindon Wilts.

Scrip certificates will at first be issued in exchange
for the bonds withdrawn, and these will afterwards
be replaced by debentures of the new issue.

The annual drawings will take place in the month
of March, commencing in 1869, and will be conducted
in the presence of the Crown Agents for the Colonies,
of any debenture holders who may be pleased to
attend, and of a notary public. The debentures
drawn will be paid off at par on the 15th April
following, together with the interest due thereon.

The days on which such drawings will take place,
and the numbers and values of the debentures drawn,
will be duly notified by advertisement in the London
Gazette and The Times.

Applications for conversion from persons residing
in New Zealand or the Australian Colonies, will be
received by Penrose G. Julyan, Esquire, and W. C.
Sargeaunt, Esquire, Crown Agents for the Colonies,
whose office is in Spring Gardens, London, at any
time not later than the 1st of December next, after
which date the right of altogether closing the opera-
tion is reserved.

Forms of application and information as to the
terms upon which such conversion will be made may
be obtained on application to the Crown Agents, or
to the brokers, Messrs. Mullens, Marshall, Daniell,
and Co., 3, Lombard-street, and Messrs. J. and A.
Scrimgeour, 18, Old Broad-street, London.

Persons residing in New Zealand or the Australian
Colonies desirous of making such conversion must
transmit their securities to some Agent in London,
in order that such securities may be given up on the
issue of the scrip certificates.

The Treasury,
Wellington, New Zealand,
31st August, 1868.

JOHN HALL.

3. During the past quarter the following changes
   have been made, namely :—

The Money Order Sub-Office at Llandyssil (Car-
marthenshire) has been made a Head Office; with
the office at Newcastle Emlyn subordinate to it.
The Money Order Sub-Office at Marske-by-the-
Sea has been made a Railway Sub-Office.
The Money Order Office at Park End Street,
Oxford, has been abolished.
The Money Order Sub-Offices at Lofthouse-in-
Cleveland and Staithes are now served from Salt-
burn-by-the-Sca (Railway Sub-Office) instead of
from Redcar; and the Money Order Sub-Office at
Crowle from Doncaster instead of from Bawtry.

IRELAND.

4. Money Order Offices will be opened at—

Ballybofey ... Strabane ... Donegal.
Glin Limerick Limerick.
Newmarket Kanturk Cork.
Pallaskenry Limerick Limerick.

5. The Money Order Sub-Office at Donaghadee is
   now served from Belfast instead of from New-
   townards.

General Post Office, 22nd June, 1868.

CONVERSION OF THE PUBLIC DEBTS OF NEW
ZEALAND UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF "THE
CONSOLIDATED LOAN ACT, 1867."

THE Government of New Zealand is prepared,
under the powers granted by the Act above men-
tioned, to issue in exchange for such of the various
Colonial and Provincial Securities as are now in
circulation new Debentures of uniform character,
charged on the Consolidated Revenue of New
Zealand.

These new debentures will bear interest at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, payable quarterly,
and the principal will be repaid at par by a one per
cent. cumulative sinking fund, applied by annual
drawings to the extinction of the debt. By this
process the whole amount will be paid off in about
thirty-six years.

The debentures will be made to represent sums of
£1,000, £500, £200, and £100 respectively, and
fractions of the latter amount which may be unavoid-
able in the conversion will be adjusted either by the
issue of one debenture, or by the payment of the
difference in money.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 3rd September, 1868.

IT is hereby notified for public information that
His Excellency the Governor has approved of the
following prices to be charged for the printed Forms
required under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854.
These Forms can be procured at the Custom Houses
at the Ports appointed for the Registry of Ships,
namely, Auckland, Wellington, Napier, Nelson,
Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Invercargill.

EACH.
s. d.
For Sailing Vessels, No. 1, Certificate of
Survey ... 2 6
Steamers, No. 1A, Certificate of Survey 2 6
Sailing, No. 2, Declarations, sole owner,
natural-born subject, resident or non-
resident 2 6
Steamers, No. 2A, ditto, ditto 2 6
Sailing, No. 3, Declarations, natural-born sub-
ject who has taken oath to foreigners, &c. 2 6
Steamers, No. 3A, ditto, ditto 2 6
Sailing, No. 4, Declarations, the same as No.
3, being non-resident in Her Majesty's
dominions 2 6
Steamers, No. 4A, ditto, ditto 2 6
Sailing, No. 5, Declarations, joint owners,
resident or non-resident, when attending
together 2 6
Steamers, No. 5A, ditto, ditto 2 6
Sailing, No. 6, Declarations, individual joint
owner, each to declare the names, &c., of
the others, when not attending together 2 6
Steamers, No. 6A, ditto, ditto 2 6
Sailing, No. 7, Declarations, special cases 2 6
Steamers, No. 7A, ditto, ditto 2 6
Sailing, No. 8, Declarations, bodies corporate 2 6
Steamers, No. 8A, ditto, ditto 2 6