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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 5th October, 1868.

NOTICE to Justices of the Peace. - Justices of the
Peace resident within each District now con-
stituted, or hereafter to be constituted, under "The
Petty Sessions Act, 1865," are referred to the 7th
section of that Act, and requested to agree among
themselves as to the most convenient time and place
within their District for the meeting required by the
Act, in order that the Government may, upon being
informed thereof, issue the necessary Proclamations.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments, viz.:-

In the New Zealand Militia.
Robert William Anderson to be Ensign. Date of
commission, 7th September, 1868.
Andrew Middlemas to be Ensign. Date of com-
mission, 16th September, 1868.

In the Napier Militia.
William Bell Davis to be Ensign. Date of commis-
sion, 30th September, 1868.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignations of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers, viz.:-
Captain J. R. Carey, Westland Light Horse
Volunteers.
Ensign J. Ischerwood, New Zealand Militia.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband the under-mentioned Corps, viz.:-
The Charleston Rifle Volunteers.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband the
No. 5 Division of Armed Constabulary,
for mutinous conduct in the field.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Treasury,
Wellington, 7th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM PATRICK CRAWFORD, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Joint Stock Companies for the
County of Westland.

JOHN HALL.

Treasury,
Wellington, 7th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ROBERT CHISENHALL HAMMERTON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Joint Stock Companies for the
Province of Taranaki.

JOHN HALL.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license
J. HOWARD JACKSON,
to survey lands under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."

J. C. RICHMOND.

Native Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ENOKA TE WHANAKE,
to be an Assessor under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."

J. C. RICHMOND.

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 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