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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fourth day of August, 1870.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Electric Tele-
graph Act, 1865," the Governor of New Zealand is
empowered to establish lines of electric telegraph,
and to purchase any lines of electric telegraph then
existing: And whereas by the said Act it is amongst
other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor, by Order in Council, to make regulations
for the transmission and delivery of all despatches,
messages, and communications by means of any such
line, and in like manner to fix and determine the fees,
rates, or dues to be demanded and received for the
transmission of any such despatch, message, or com-
munication, and for the delivery thereof respectively,
and the modes and times of payment; and to regulate
the conduct, management, working and maintenance
of any such telegraph line; and any such fees, rates,
dues, or regulations from time to time to increase
or lower, repeal, alter, or vary respectively, and direct
and make such others as may be deemed expedient;
and that such fees, rates, and dues may be legally
recovered; and such regulations shall have the force
of law when published in the Government Gazette
of the Colony:

And whereas by an Order in Council duly made
and issued, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the
Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the said
recited power and authority, fix and determine the
fees, rates, or dues to be demanded or received for
the transmission of any such despatches, messages, or
communications by means of any line of telegraph
which has been or hereafter shall be established or
purchased under the powers conferred by the said
Act: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said
Order in Council, and to fix a new tariff of charges:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the powers vested in him by the herein-
before recited Act, doth, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of New Zealand, revoke the
said Order in Council of the twenty-eighth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and
doth hereby fix and determine that the fees, rates,
and dues specified in the Schedule hereto shall be the
fees, rates, and dues to be demanded and received for
the transmission of despatches, messages, and com-
munications, and the delivery thereof respectively, by
such lines of telegraph as aforesaid; and doth further
declare that this order shall take effect on and after
the first day of September, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy.

SCHEDULE.
Tariff of Charges for the transmission of Telegrams on
the Lines of Electric Telegraph belonging to the
General Government of New Zealand.

UNIVERSAL TARIFF.
FROM any Station in New Zealand to any other Sta-
tion in New Zealand having continuous telegraphic
communication therewith:—

For the first ten words or fraction of ten
words
... s. d.
1 0

For each additional five words or fraction
of five words after the first ten
... 0 6

On Sundays, double the above rates.

PRESS TARIFF.
For Press Telegrams from any Station in New
Zealand to any other Station in New Zealand having
continuous telegraphic communication therewith:—

For the first ten words
... s. d.
0 6

For every additional fifteen words or
fraction of fifteen words after the first
ten words
... 0 6

On Sundays, double the above rates.

In future no charge will be made for signature,
but it must in all cases be the usual signature of the
person sending the message.

In the case of telegrams of any kind requiring to
be delivered beyond one mile from the Station to
which they are addressed and transmitted, or on
shipboard, or on the water or across the water,
further charges will be made as provided by the
general regulations and conditions for the time being
in force in relation thereto.

Minimum charge, ten words. By Press Telegram
is meant intelligence transmitted for bona fide publi-
cation in the regular newspapers and journals.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

To Oswald Curtis, Esquire, Superintendent of
the Province of Nelson; Nathaniel Edwards,
Esquire, a Member of the House of Represen-
tatives; William Hunter Reynolds, Esquire,
a Member of the House of Representatives;
Henry Howorth, Esquire, a Member of the
House of Representatives; George Maurice
O'Rorke, Esquire, a Member of the House
of Representatives; Edward Cephas John
Stevens, Esquire, a Member of the House of
Representatives; and Jonas Woodward,
Esquire, Receiver-General:

WHEREAS it was deemed expedient that inquiry
should be made into the Laws relating to
Building and Land Societies and the operation thereof;
and by an Order in Council made on the twenty-
fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine, I did appoint you, the said Oswald
Curtis, Nathaniel Edwards, William Hunter Reynolds,
Henry Howorth, George Maurice O'Rorke, Edward
Cephas John Stevens, and Jonas Woodward, Com-
missioners to investigate and report upon the
same, and did will and direct you the said Commis-
sioners, within six months after the date of the said
Commission, to certify to me, under your hands and
seals, or under the hands and seals of any three of
you, your several proceedings and your opinion
touching the premises: And whereas I have been
given to understand that you the said Commissioners
took upon yourselves the burthen of the investigation
directed to be made as aforesaid, but that you did
not, within the time in that behalf limited in and by
the said Commission, certify to me your proceedings
therein, and your opinion touching the matters
referred to you: And whereas I have further been
given to understand that you are now ready to make
such report: And whereas it is apprehended that by
lapse of time the said Commission has expired, and
that it is necessary, in order to enable you to make
such report, that you should be reappointed as here-
inafter mentioned:

Now know ye, that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
G.C.M.G., continuing to repose special trust in your
knowledge and ability, have thought fit, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, to
constitute and appoint, and by these presents, by and