THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 635

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
fourteenth day of December, 1870.
Present:

THE HONORABLE DONALD MCLEAN, NATIVE AND
DEFENCE MINISTER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS
OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, from time to time, to order and
direct that all or any of the powers, functions, duties,
and authorities vested in or required to be performed
by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the
Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any
Province or other district of the Colony, shall be
exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any
such Province, or by any other person the Governor
may think fit; and thereupon such functions, powers,
duties, and authorities may, by such Superintendent
or other person, be exercised or performed within the
Province or other district of the Colony specified:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the
power and authority for that purpose vested in him,
doth hereby order and direct that all the powers,
functions, duties, and authorities vested in or
required to be performed by the Governor, or the
Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by
"The Lunatics Act, 1868," within the Province of
Otago, shall be exercised by the Superintendent of
such Province.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
fourteenth day of December, 1870.
Present:

THE HONORABLE DONALD MCLEAN, NATIVE AND
DEFENCE MINISTER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS
OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Protection of Animals Act
1867," it is enacted that the Governor may,
by Order in Council published in the New Zealand
Gazette, delegate to the Superintendent of any Pro-
vince all or any of the powers by the said Act vested
in the Governor or the Governor in Council, subject
to such regulations as he may think fit, and may from
time to time rescind such delegation:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth hereby delegate unto

JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago, so long
as he shall continue and remain Superintendent
of the said Province, all the powers vested by the
said Act in the Governor or the Governor in Council,
to be exercised only in respect of the said Province.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in that behalf enabling me, I, Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that
sittings of the District Court of the Westland North

District, in lieu of those heretofore appointed, shall
be held as follows:---

In the Resident Magistrate's Court House at
Charleston, for the despatch of Civil and
Criminal Business, on the twentieth day of
the months of February, April, June, August,
October, and December, respectively.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court House at
Westport, for the despatch of Civil and Crimi-
nal Business, on the twenty-fourth day of the
months of February, April, June, August, and
October, respectively, and on the twenty-
second day of December.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or holiday,
then the Court appointed for that day shall be
holden on the first day thereafter, not being a
holiday.

Issued this fifteenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that
sittings of the District Court of the County of
Westland, in lieu of those heretofore appointed, shall
be held as follows:----

In the Supreme Court House at Hokitika, for
the despatch of Civil and Criminal Business, on
the fourth day of the months of February,
April, June, August, October, and December,
respectively.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court House at
Greymouth, for the despatch of Civil and
Criminal Business, on the twelfth day of the
months of February, April, June, August,
October, and December, respectively.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed
as aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or a
holiday, then the Court appointed for that day shall
be holden on the first day thereafter, not being a
holiday.

Issued this fifteenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1870.

THE following Despatch, with Enclosure, from the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published
for general information.

W. GISBORNE.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street, 12th September, 1870.

SIR,-I transmit to you copies of an important judg-
ment recently delivered by the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council in the case of "The Queen v.
Carlin (ship Salvador)," in which their Lordships,
reversing the decision of the Vice-Admiralty Court
at Nassau, held that, whether or not it could be
stated, with reference to the Insurrection in Cuba,
that there were persons exercising or assuming to
exercise the powers of Government in Cuba, in
opposition to the Spanish authorities, there was
clearly no doubt that the insurgents formed "part of
the Province or People" of Cuba within the meaning
of the 7th section of the Act 59 George III., cap.
69, and that consequently the "Salvador" was for-
feited to the Crown, as a transport in their service
which had increased its force within British waters.