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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1871.

IT is hereby notified that the Secretary to the Civil
Service Examination Board has reported that
the under-mentioned candidate has passed his ex-
amination under the Civil Service Regulations, viz.:-
REGINALD A. SNOOK.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 20th May, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES GORDON ALLAN, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Province of Wellington
under "The Building and Land Societies Act, 1866,"
vice R. Hart, Esq., resigned.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 11th May, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WALTER SCOTT REID, Esq.,
to be Assistant Law Officer to the Government of
New Zealand.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th May, 1871.
WHEREAS the Regulations relating to Criminal
Prosecutions, published in the New Zealand
Gazette, March 3, 1864, and December 21, 1867, so
far as the same provide for the conduct of prosecu-
tions by the Crown Solicitors, were not intended and
ought not to apply to cases the responsibility of
prosecuting which ought to remain with the person
instituting the prosecution. It is therefore notified
that the said Regulations, so far as aforesaid, do not,
unless the prosecution is instituted by or by the
direction of some Department of the General Govern-
ment, or by or by'the direction of a Judicial Officer
or Superior Officer of Police, apply to other than the
following misdemeanours :-

Conspiring to charge any person with any
felony, or to indict any person of any felony.
Conspiring to commit any felony.
Neglect and breach of duty as a Peace Officer.
Misdemeanours under "The Larceny Act, 1867."
Misdemeanours under "The Offences against
the Person Act, 1867."
Misdemeanours under "The Malicious Injuries
to Property Act, 1867."
Misdemeanours under "The Forgery Act, 1867,"
Misdemeanours under "The Coinage Act, 1867."

2. In cases to which the said Regulations are
   declared not to apply, the committing Justices should
   be careful to inform prosecutors to that effect.

3. In cases to which the Regulations do apply, a
   strict compliance with the third and fourth of the
   Regulations first above mentioned is enjoined on all
   Justices of the Peace.

4. If the Attorney-General or Crown Solicitor is of
   opinion that any prosecution instituted by a private
   prosecutor, whether for felony or misdemeanour,
   and to which the said Regulations would otherwise
   apply, is such that it ought not to be conducted by
   the Crown Solicitor, notice thereof shall, as soon as
   possible, be given to the prosecutor; and if such
   notice shall be given to the prosecutor not later
   than seven days in country cases, and not later
   than three days in town cases, before the first day
   of the sittings at which the trial is to be had, or if
   the committal shall have taken place within the said
   periods, then, if such notice be given with all
   reasonable despatch, in all such cases the Crown
   Solicitor shall not conduct the prosecution under the
   said Regulations, and the said Regulations shall not
   be deemed to apply to such case.

By a "country case" is meant one in which the
committing Justices shall have sat at a distance of
more than ten miles from the place at which the trial
is to be had. Other cases are included in the term
"town cases."

The alteration of the said Regulations shall apply
to cases in which Justices shall commit or hold to
bail after the 1st July next; and if the alteration shall
be made known to any Justice before that date, it
shall apply to all cases in which any such Justice
shall commit or hold to bail after the alteration is
made known to him.
W. GISBORNE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The UNDER SECRETARY, Public Works and
Immigration Department, and
The DISTRICT ENGINEER, Otago,
to frank and receive free from prepayment of postage
Letters and Packets posted on the Public Service.
F. D. BELL
(for the Postmaster-General).

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM NEWSHAM BLAIR, Esq.,
a District Engineer under "The Immigration and
Public Works Act, 1870." This appointment to date
from the 1st instant.
W. GISBORNE.

CUSTOMS. - In exercise of the powers in me for
this purpose vested by "The Customs Regula-
tion Act, 1858," I, the Commissioner of Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned
Warehouse, namely:-

Port of Auckland.
The inner half of a Warehouse built of concrete, on
part of allotment (19) nineteen of section (9) nine
of the Town of Auckland, and known as
THE KEROSINE BOND,
to be a Warehouse for the reception and storage of
Kerosine and other Oils under Bond.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
HENRY SEWELL,
Commissioner of Customs.
[Commissioner's Order, No. 47.]

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1871.
IN virtue of the powers delegated to the Commis-
sioner of Customs by His Excellency the
Governor, the following appointments have been
made in the Customs Department :-

HENRY FREEMAN ANDREWS, Esq.,
Acting Collector, to be Collector of Customs at the
Port of Greymouth.
ROBERT JOSEPH LANAUZE, Esq.,
to be Sub-Collector of Customs at the Chatham
Islands.
HENRY SEWELL,
Commissioner.