THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 191

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 4th December, 1872.
SIR, I transmit to you, for your information, an ex-
tract from a Despatch received through the Foreign
Office from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington,
respecting the steps taken by the United States
Government with a view of discouraging the Kidnap-
ping of Natives of the Pacific Islands, together with
a copy of the answer returned by Earl Granville to
Sir E. Thornton's Despatch.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

Extract of a Despatch from Sir E. Thornton to Earl
Granville, dated 26th October, 1872.-No. 6.
"With reference to your Lordship's Despatch of
this series, No. 3, of the 8th instant, I have the
honor to inform you that no further action was taken
by the Congress upon the Bill submitted to the
Senate, with a view of preventing abuses in connec-
tion with the traffic in South Sea Islanders, copies of
which were enclosed in my Slave Trade Despatch,
No. 1, of the 5th of February last.

"I have, since the receipt of the above-mentioned
Despatch, inquired of Mr. Fish whether any measures
had been adopted by the Government for the pre-
vention of this traffic, and in reply he informed me
that, in the absence of an Act of Congress upon the
subject, very little could be done, but that the Con-
sular Officers of the United States in that part of the
world, had been instructed to do their best to dis-
courage and prevent the traffic, and that at his
request similar instructions had been forwarded by
the Navy Department to the Commander of the
United States Vessels of War in that direction."

Earl Granville to Sir E. Thornton.
Foreign Office, 21st November, 1872.
SIR,-With reference to your Despatch of this series,
No. 6, of the 26th ultimo, I have to request you
to express to the United States Government the
satisfaction of Her Majesty's Government at the
instructions given to the United States Naval and
Consular Officers in the Pacific Islands, with the
view of discouraging the Kidnapping of Natives; and
you will take a favourable opportunity for asking
Mr. Fish whether it is not the intention of his
Government to apply to Congress for increased
powers to enable him to deal thoroughly with the
matter.
Copies of the Act of Parliament past last Session,
with reference to this question, are herewith enclosed
for your information.

GRANVILLE.
To the Right Hon. Sir E. Thornton, K.C.B.

Regulations under "Passengers Act, 1855."

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1873.
THE following Order of Her Majesty the Queen in
Council, regulating Water Supply in Passenger
Ships, is published for general information.
WM. Fox.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Court at Windsor, the 5th day of December,
1865.
Present:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Passengers' Act, 1855," it is
amongst other things enacted, that before any
passenger ship shall be cleared out, the Emigration
Officer at the port of clearance shall satisfy himself
that there is on board a sufficient quantity of pure
water, carried in tanks or casks, to secure throughout
the intended voyage the issue of three quarts daily
to each statute adult, for the use of the passengers,
exclusive of the quantity required for cooking: And
whereas it is also enacted, that it shall be lawful for
Her Majesty, by any Order in Council, to prescribe
such rules and regulations as to Her Majesty may
seem fit, for permitting the use on board passenger
ships of an apparatus for distilling water, and for
defining in such case the quantity of fresh water
to be carried in tanks or casks for the passengers, and
such Order in Council from time to time to alter,
amend, and revoke, as occasion may require: And
whereas Her Majesty, by an Order in Council dated
the ninth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, prescribed certain rules for
permitting the use on board passenger ships pro-
pelled by steam engines of less than a certain power,
and on board passenger ships propelled by sails, of a
certain apparatus for distilling fresh water from salt
water: And whereas it is expedient to repeal the
said Order in Council, and to issue in lieu thereof
the Order hereinafter contained:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty doth, by and with the
advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and
in exercise of the authority vested in Her by the
said "Passengers Act, 1855," hereby repeal the
said Order in Council of the ninth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, except
in so far as the same repeals a certain Order in
Council of the thirteenth day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine; and doth hereby order
as follows:-

Any passenger ship propelled by sails only, or by
steam engines of less power than is sufficient, without
the aid of sails, to propel the ship at the rate of five
statute miles an hour, may be cleared out and proceed
on her voyage, having on board, in tanks or casks,
only half of the quantity of pure water required by
the said Act to be carried for the use of the passen-
gers, provided the following conditions be observed;
that is to say:

1. That there be on board such ship an efficient
   apparatus for distilling fresh water from salt water,
   of the description commonly known either as Nor-
   mandy's patent, as Winchester and Graveley's patent,
   or as Chaplin and Company's patent.
2. That the owners, charterers, or master of such
   ship, before clearance, lodge with such Emigration
   Officer a certificate from the Engineer or Surveyor
   of the Board of Trade, or from some other competent
   person to be named by such Emigration Officer,
   declaring that within seven days immediately preced-
   ing the date of such certificate, the apparatus has
   been examined by him, and is then in good working
   condition, and stating the number of Imperial gallons
   of pure fresh water which it is capable of producing
   in every twenty-four hours; and further declaring
   that the apparatus on board is either Normandy's,
   Winchester and Graveley's, or Chaplin and Company's
   patent, as the case may be.
3. That in every case such Emigration Officer shall
   be satisfied that the number of gallons of pure water
   which the apparatus is so certified to be capable of
   producing is not less than the whole number of
   persons about to proceed on the intended voyage of
   such ship; that is to say, the whole number of cabin
   passengers, passengers, and crew.
4. That there is rated on the ship's articles, and
   that there is on board the ship, some person or persons
   who, to the satisfaction of the said Emigration Officer,
   shall be competent for the proper management and
   repair of such distilling apparatus.