354:
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

passages to that Province may do so by paying two-
equal to adults at £6 per adult, and hereby
fifths of the amount of passage money in cash to the
agree to receive the Immigrants above named imme-
Provincial Immigration Officer, Christchurch or
diately on their arrival in Christchurch [or Timaru].
Timaru, or by drawing a bill, in the form below,
Dated this day of , 187 .
payable to Her Majesty the Queen, to the ex-
[Signature and Address of Applicant.]
tent of three-fifths of the passage money, accepted
NOTE.—This form is subject to adaptation to meet the cases
by a substantial householder also resident in that
where bills are given or free passages applied for.
Province, to be approved by and deposited with
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
the Superintendent as sufficient security for the
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
same. A copy of this bill or the receipt for the
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
cash payment is to be transmitted to the person who
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
is desirous of immigrating into the Province, and
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
being by him presented to the Agent-General in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
England, will be received by him in lieu of a cash pay-
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
ment in full. The copy of the bill is returned
Admiral of the same ; and issued at
by the Agent-General to the Colony upon the
Wellington, this fifth day of July, in
embarkation of the person nominated, and the bill
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
itself becomes due and payment is enforced thirty
hundred and seventy-one.
days after the arrival of the person for whose
W. GISBORNE.
passage it was drawn and deposited. But if the
person nominated declines to make use of the
copy of the bill or receipt thus sent him, he should at
once inform the Agent-General, so that the bill may
be cancelled, or, if a cash payment has been made,
that the money may be refunded on the return of
the receipt to the Colony.

(Stamp.)
FORM OF BILL.
[Place of making and date.]
£.....................
Sighted (date).
Accepted payable at
the Bank of ..................................
Christchurch.
Signature of Ac-
ceptor—C.D.
Three days after sight
I promise to pay to Her
Majesty Queen Victoria,
in the Colony of New
Zealand, the sum of
pounds
shillings
for value received.
[Signature of
Drawer]
A.B.

To Mr. C.D.,
Grocer, Christchurch.

NOTE.-Stamp duty to the proper amount. Impressed
stamp forms should always be used, so as to avoid any question
as to cancellation.

2. The rate of passage money to the Province is
   fixed, until further notice, at £15, and cash pay-
   ments are made or bills prepared in accordance with
   that rate.

3. Nominated passages will be afforded only to
   persons of such trades or callings as may from time to
   time be determined by the Provincial Immigration
   Officer, acting under the instructions of the Govern-
   ment; but persons of all classes will be able to assist
   their friends to emigrate to the Colony by under-
   taking the payment of the whole of the passage
   money.

4. Free passages will be provided for single women
   accustomed to domestic service who can bring satis-
   factory proof of good character, and who are between
   the ages of 15 and 35.

5. Notwithstanding anything herein to the con-
   trary, the Agent-General in England will have power
   to refuse passages where the intending Immigrants are
   in ill health or in any way unfitted, according to his
   judgment, to undertake the voyage.

6. Applications for nominated passages of families
   and single men, and for nominated free passages of
   single women under clause 4, as above, are to be
   addressed to the Immigration Office, Christchurch
   or Timaru, in the following form, viz. :-

I, the undersigned, hereby apply for a nominated
passage to Christchurch [or Timaru] under the
Regulations of 5th July, 1871, for

Name
Age
Calling
Address in full ..........................................
..................................................
..................................................

for which I herewith pay the sum of £ , being

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

「N 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 Otago Gold
Fields, in lieu of those heretofore appointed, shall be
held as follows :-

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby
on the second Wednesday in September next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde
on the Monday next after the second Wed-
nesday in September next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queens-
town on the Monday second after the second
Wednesday in September next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence
on the second Tuesday in October next.

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

Issued this fourth day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th July, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY WIRGMAN ROBINSON, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for the
Electoral District of Mount Ida for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives, in the
room of Vincent Pyke, Esq.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th July, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FRANCIS EDWARDS HAMLIN, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for the
Electoral District of East Coast for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives, in the
room of William Gilbert Mair, Esq., transferred.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th July, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters of Registration, dated the 1st