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And We hereby further warn all Our loving sub-
jects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to Our
protection, that if any of them shall presume, in
contempt of this Our Royal Proclamation, and of Our
high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation of
their duty as subjects of a neutral Sovereign in a
war between other Sovereigns, or in violation or
contravention of the law of nations in that behalf, as
more especially by breaking, or endeavouring to
break, any blockade lawfully and actually established
by or on behalf of either of the said Sovereigns, or
by carrying officers, soldiers, despatches, arms,
ammunition, military stores or materials, or any
article or articles considered and deemed to be con-
traband of war according to the law or modern
usages of nations, for the use or service of either of
the said Sovereigns, that all persons so offending,
together with their ships and goods, will rightfully
incur and be justly liable to hostile capture, and
the penalties denounced by the law of nations in that
behalf.

And We do hereby give notice, that all Our sub-
jects and persons entitled to Our protection who
may misconduct themselves in the premises will do
so at their peril, and of their own wrong; and that
they will in nowise obtain any protection from Us
against such capture or such penalties as aforesaid,
but will, on the contrary, incur Our high displeasure
by such misconduct.

Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle
of Wight, this ninth day of August, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, and in the thirty-
fourth year of Our reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THEOPHILUS KISSLING, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Deeds for the District of Auckland.
This appointment to take effect on and from the
first day of November instant.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1870.

IT is hereby notified, that Her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies has instructed
His Excellency the Governor to recognize the appoint-
ment of

LOUIS BOLS, Esq.,
as Consul-General for Belgium in Australia.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1870.

IT is hereby notified, that Her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies has instructed
His Excellency the Governor to recognize the appoint-
ment of

DAVID BOOSIE CRUIKSHANK, Esq.,
as Vice-Consul for the Netherlands at Auckland.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the following per-
sons, viz.:-

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 31st October, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FRANCIS EDWARDS HAMLIN, Esq.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the District of
Maketu.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 1st November, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALFRED HASSALL KING, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar at Auckland of the Supreme
Court, vice T. Kissling, Esq., transferred.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 29th October, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN MITCHELL MURRAY, Esq.,
of Mahurangi, Auckland, to be a Coroner within the
Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

NOTICE TO CORONERS AND JUSTICES OF THE
PEACE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 7th November, 1870.

IN all cases of verdicts of " felo de se," Coroners, and
Justices of the Peace acting as Coroners, are
requested to send information to the Sheriff of the
Sheriff's District in which the inquest shall have been
held, in order that the Sheriff may, as Queen's Bailiff,
take possession of property forfeited to the Crown.

It is also requested that, whenever it shall appear
on the evidence given before them on any inquest
that any poison has been sold otherwise than in the
manner and in accordance with the regulations pro-
vided by "The Sale of Poisons Act, 1866," Coroners
and Justices will send information to the Chief
Officer of Police of the Province in which such
breaches of the Act shall have been committed, in
order that proceedings may be taken for the prose-
cution of the offender.

Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.