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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1872.
Specimens of Typography.

1. As respects specimens of Typography, only such
   are required as exhibit either great novelty in new
   types, or excellence in execution, such as the chefs-
   d'œuvre of the Press of the Imperial Academy of
   Sciences at St. Petersburg; M. Molini, of Florence;
   the National Press at Madrid; of Whittingham,
   London, and Clarendon Press, Oxford; M. Mame,
   of Tours, and M. Firmin Didot, of Paris; Herr Carl
   Fromme, of Vienna, and Herr Decker, of Berlin, &c.

2. In order to show the decennial progress of popu-
   lar Typography, Her Majesty's Commissioners desire
   that there should be sent to the Exhibition specimens
   of the newspapers and periodicals which shall be pub-
   lished in each Country on any one day in the months
   of January or February next.

3. To enable such periodical publications to be
   properly arranged, it is requested that they may be
   transmitted to the Exhibition as soon as possible after
   they are published.

4. The works of each Country will be exhibited
   together.

HENRY Y. D. SCOTT,
Major-General,
Secretary.

December 4, 1871.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street, 15th February, 1872.

SIR,-I transmit to you, for your information, a
translation of a Proclamation issued by the Governor-
General of Netherlands India, to prevent the intro-
duction of certain contagious diseases into the Dutch
Indian Possessions, and for the enforcement of
Quarantine in certain cases.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

(Translation.)
Colonial Ministry.

THE attention of those concerned is directed to the
following Ordinance, promulgated by the Governor-
General of Netherlands India, in the official paper
(Staatsblad) of Netherlands India, 1871, No. 109,
under date of 4th August, 1871:--

In the King's name!

The Governor-General of Netherlands India, having
heard the Council of Netherlands India, sends greet-
ing, and notifies to all who shall see these presents or
hear them read,----

That he, considering it desirable that measures be
adopted for the prevention, as far as possible, of the
introduction into Netherlands India of contagious
diseases imperilling the general health;

In observance of Articles 20, 29, 31, and 33 of the
Regulations for conducting the Government of
Netherlands India;

Having read the Colonial Minister's communication
of 19th May, 1871, let. AAZ, No. 2609;

Has thought proper and has resolved,

By virtue of the King's authorization, to establish
the following general regulations for the preven-
tion of the introduction into Netherlands India of
contagious diseases imperilling the general health:--

Article 1. Ships and vessels wherein contagious
diseases dangerous to the general health, such as
cholera, yellow fever, Asiatic plague, small-pox, and
others of a similar character prevail, or have prevailed
during the voyage just completed, or if such ships and
vessels come from places where contagious diseases
prevailed at the time of their departure, must, on
their arrival in a roadstead of Netherlands India, bear
a yellow flag at the foretop.

Article 2. All intercourse of any ship or vessel
arriving and bearing the yellow flag with the shore
and with other ships and vessels in the roadstead, or
in the vicinity of the roadstead, without distinction,
is, saving what is directed in Article 3, forbidden.

For each transgression of this prohibition com-
mitted by any one belonging to the ship or vessel, or
who has made the voyage therewith, the commander
will be punished by a fine of 100 to 1,000 florins.

Any one who, without being authorized to do so by
virtue of these regulations, shall go on board such
ship or vessel will be punished, according to his
nationality, by imprisonment or by labour on the
public works for a period of eight days to a month.

The Commander of the Guardship, or, where no such
vessel is present, the Harbour Master, is to attend
to the maintenance of the prohibition, in accordance
with the directions given thereupon.

Article 3. If it should afterwards appear that,
although the ship or vessel is in the condition
described in Article 1, the yellow flag was not hoisted
upon it on its arrival, the commander incurs a fine
of 500 to 5,000 florins.

The Commander of the Guardship, or where no such
vessel is present, the Harbour Master, then orders
that the yellow flag be immediately hoisted.

Article 4. When any ship or vessel bearing a
yellow flag comes to a roadstead, or when the yellow
flag is hoisted after arrival in the roadstead, accord-
ing to the provision in Article 3, an officer of health
from the Guardship, or, in places where there is no
Guardship, a civil or military medical man, to be
appointed by the Chief of the Local Administration,
shall go as speedily as possible, observing the pre-
scribed measures of precaution, on board the newly
arrived ship, for the purpose of instituting a diligent
inquiry as to the nature of the disease.

All officers and others charged with any civil or
military medical service are bound to perform that
service with the greatest speed.

A report of the result of the inquiry is to be imme-
diately made, both to the Chief of the Local
Administration and the Commander of the Guardship,
or, in places where there is no Guardship, to the
Harbour Master, so that the necessary measures may
be taken, in accordance with the existing regulations
in this respect, to isolate the newly-arrived ship, to
render assistance to the Commander, and to attend
to the sick.

If, however, it should be found that there is no
danger of contagion, then permission is immediately
to be given to haul down the yellow flag; and this
serves as a sign that the prohibition against the
opening of communication with the shore or with
other vessels is revoked.

The same is done so soon as the Chief of the Local
Administration has declared, on the advice of the
medical man, that all danger of contagion is at an
end.

Article 5. The Chief of the Local Administration
is to give immediate information, by telegraph if
possible, of the measures referred to in the third
paragraph of Article 4, as well as of the declaration
mentioned in the last paragraph of that Article, to
the Commander of the Naval Force, the Chief of the
Department of Marine, and to the Director of In-
struction, Worship, and Industry, and, if he is not
himself the Acting Chief of the District, also to the
Chief of the District Administration.

Article 6. In ships or vessels whereon the yellow
flag has been hoisted it must not be hauled down
without the express order of the Commander of the
Guardship, or, in places where there is no Guardship,
of the Harbour Master.

After sunset, two lighted lanterns must be placed,
one under the other, on the foretop.