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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

From 1842 to 1871 the total number of Appeals to the Queen in Council from the seven Colonies
of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, West Australia, Tasmania, and New
Zealand, is 112: 64 have been lodged from New South Wales; 32 from Victoria; 3 from Tasmania; 1
from Queensland; 3 from New Zealand; 9 from South Australia; none from West Australia. Of
these, 71 have been heard, and 5 are still pending; 36 have been dismissed for non-prosecution or with-
drawn. These numbers comprise the whole of the appeals which have been brought from the Australian
Colonies to England.

If the foregoing statement be examined, it will be found that there is frequently considerable
delay in the transmission of the records to England, sometimes extending to a period of two years.
There is also considerable delay between the arrival of the records in England and the date at which
the case is set down for hearing. Over these delays the Lords of the Privy Council exercise no control.
They are attributable solely to the parties in the Colony or to their agents in England. But with
reference to the interval of time between the setting down the case and the final hearing, it will be seen
from the fifth and sixth columns of this statement that this delay has been very slight indeed-seldom
exceeding six months, and many appeals have been disposed of considerably within that period-in
three months or less. There is, therefore, no ground whatever for the allegation that the appeals from
the Australian Colonies have not been disposed of with the utmost despatch, after the parties had taken
the necessary steps to set them down for hearing.

Council Office, Whitehall, 20th July, 1871.

HENRY REEVE,
Reg. P.C.

Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl of KIMBERLEY to Governor Sir G. F. BOWEN,
G.C.M.G.

(Circular.)

SIR,— I transmit to you for your information and guidance, a copy of a letter which has been
received from the Board of Trade, enclosing a copy of a Circular with Order in Council appended,
which has been issued to the British Consuls and to the officers in the British Possessions abroad,
relative to the steps to be taken in case of cholera on board ship.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

Enclosure.

Mr. GRAY to the UNDER SECRETARY of STATE, Colonial Office.
Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, 8th August, 1871.

SIR,— I am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a printed
circular, with Order in Council appended, which has just been issued from this Department to the
Superintendents of all Mercantile Marine Offices in the United Kingdom, to the British Consuls, and
to the Officers in the British Possessions abroad.

The urgency of the subject, as will be perceived on reference to these documents, precluded this
Board from following their otherwise invariable practice of previously consulting the Secretary of State;
but the Board hope that if further instructions are thought by his Lordship to be necessary in the
matter, he will not find it too late now to have them sent out.

The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

I have, &c.,
THOMAS GRAY.

Sub-Enclosure to Enclosure.

CIRCULAR No. 486.—Board of Trade, 7th August, 1871.
Cholera.

APPENDED hereto is the copy of an Order in Council directing that ships, on board of which any person
has been attacked by cholera during the voyage, shall not enter any port or place in the United
Kingdom until the clothes and bedding of such person shall have been destroyed.

Care should be taken that shipmasters understand this obligation, and the further obligation of
disinfecting the berths of cholera patients, and all things besides clothes and bedding likely to carry
infection.

All cases of cholera should be entered in the official log, and a list of all articles destroyed.

In the case of seamen dying of cholera at a foreign port, the Consul will give directions
for the destruction of the clothing, &c., of the deceased, which should never be sent to the United
Kingdom.

THOMAS GRAY.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The 5th day of August, 1871. By the Lords of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council.

Present:-Lord President, Mr. Göschen, Mr. Forster.

WHEREAS pursuant to an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George
the Fourth, chapter seventy-eight, and of "The Sanitary Act, 1866," and of "The Public Health
(Scotland) Act, 1867," and of every other power in them vested, the Lords of Her Majesty's Most
Honorable Privy Council did, on the twenty-ninth day of July now last past, and on the third of this
instant August, make and publish certain Örders: And whereas it has seemed expedient to their