476 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

offence incur a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds.”

THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant-Secretary.
[ Marine Department, Board of Trade,
February, 1868.

NOTE.—The other Circulars referred to in the foregoing
Despatch have been already published in the New Zealand
Gazette as under :—
” No. 122, of 16th December, 1859—Reserve Force of
Royal Naval Volunteers, Gazette, 1860, page 107.
” No. 145, May, 1861—Wages, &c., of Deceased Seamen,
Gazette, 1861, page 249.
” No. 162, September, 1862—Merchant Shipping Acts, &c.,
Amendment Act, 1862, Naval Courts, &c., Gazette, 1862,
page 73.
” No. 165, January, 1863—Collisions at Sea, Regulations,
&c., Gazette, 1863, page 180.
” No. 245, December, 1866—Seamen picked up at Sea,
Gazette, 1867, page 258.
” No. 261, June, 1867—Hurt and Injury in Service of
Ship, Gazette, 1867, page 470.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

EDGAR HALL CAREW, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the district of Hamilton, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of 30th November,
1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48,
of 11th December, 1865; vice John Nugent Wood,
Esquire, resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1868.
IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with Clause
133 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,”
the names of the following persons have been sent
in to this office by the Town Clerks, as having been
elected Mayors for the Boroughs set opposite their
names, viz. :—

EDWARD MASTERS, Esq., Greymouth.
EVAN PROSSER, Esq., Hokitika.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1868.
ENQUIRIES having been made respecting the
under-mentioned person, any one who can furnish
any information respecting him is requested to com-
municate the same to this Office.

Name—Charles Medex.
Age—About 23 years.
Former Occupation—Said to be that of a Military
Settler.
Usual residence before coming to the Colony—
Melbourne.
When last heard of and at what place—Three
years ago, at Taranaki.

W. GISBORNE,
Under-Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 30th September, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

THOMAS ALFRED SNEYD KYNNERSLEY, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace and
Resident Magistrate for the Colony.

E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th September, 1868.
THE following Notice, received from the General
Post Office, Hobart Town, respecting the
extension of the Money Order System in the Colony
of Tasmania, is published for general information.

JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

TASMANIA—GOVERNMENT NOTICE. No. 134.
Colonial Treasury, 29th August, 1868.
THE Governor has been pleased to approve of the
extension of the Money Order System to Green
Ponds, and to the appointment of Mr. J. S. Donnelly,
Postmaster, Agent thereof; to take effect on and
from the 1st proximo.

By His Excellency's command.

THOS. D. CHAPMAN.

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.

Scrip certificates will at first be issued in exchange
for 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