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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
District of Taieri-The School House, Maun-
gatua.
District of Clutha-The School House, Popo-
tunoa.
District of Dunstan-The Court House, Black's
No. 1.
District of the Lakes-The Residence of Mr.
Braden, Frankton.
District of Manuherikia-The Court House,
Naseby, and the Court House, Hamilton.
District of Tuapeka---The Court House, Wai-
pori; the School House, Blue Spur; and the
School House, Weatherstones.
District of Wakatip-The Court House, Moa
Flat.
District of Waikouaiti-The Court House,
McRae's Flat.
District of Wakari-The Drill Shed, Kaikorai.
District of Port Chalmers-The School House,
Port Chalmers.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House at Wellington, this sixteenth day
of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM REID, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Port Chalmers, for the Election of Members of the
Provincial Council in the Province of Otago.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOSEPH BARNES BORTON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Mount Benger, as
the same is defined in Proclamation of 30th day of
November, 1865, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 48, of 11th December, 1865; vice John
Smith Hickson, Esquire, resigned.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1868.

THE following Bills, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Wellington, intituled
"Wharf Act Amendment Act, 1868;"
"Ad Interim Appropriation Act, 1868;"
"Appropriation Act, 1868-69;"
"Education Commission Act, 1868;"
"Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1868;"
"Wanganui Freemasons' Grant Act, 1868;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has not been advised to exercise his power of dis-
allowance in respect of them.
E. W. STAFFORD.

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
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.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1868.

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

In the Armed Constabulary.
Captain Arthur Gustavus Smith to be Sub-Inspector.
Date of commission, 15th October, 1868.
Captain Harvey Spiller to be Sub-Inspector. Date
of commission, 16th October, 1868.
Captain Walter Edward Gudgeon to be Sub-
Inspector. Date of commission, 17th October,
1868.