poses of any criminal matter pending in any Court
or tribunal in any foreign State; and the Police
Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, upon the receipt
of such order, shall take the evidence of every witness
appearing before him for the purpose, in like manner
as if such witness appeared on a charge against some
defendant for an indictable offence, and shall certify
at the foot of the depositions so taken that such
evidence was taken before him, and shall transmit
the same to the Secretary of State; such evidence
may be taken in the presence or absence of the
person charged, if any, and the fact of such presence
or absence shall be stated in such deposition.

Any person may, after payment or tender to him
of a reasonable sum for his costs and expenses in this
behalf, be compelled, for the purposes of this section
to attend and give evidence and answer questions and
produce documents, in like manner and subject to
the like conditions as he may in the case of a charge
preferred for an indictable offence.

Every person who wilfully gives false evidence
before a Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace
under this section shall be guilty of perjury.

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply
in the case of any criminal matter of a political
character.

6. The jurisdiction conferred by section sixteen of
   the principal Act on a Stipendiary Magistrate, and a
   Sheriff or Sheriff-Substitute, shall be deemed to be in
   addition to, and not in derogation or exclusion of,
   the jurisdiction of the Police Magistrate.

7. For the purposes of the principal Act and this
   Act, a diplomatic representative of a foreign State
   shall be deemed to include any person recognized by
   the Secretary of State as a Consul-General of that
   State; and a Consul or Vice-Consul shall be deemed to
   include any person recognized by the Governor of a
   British possession as a Consular Officer of a foreign
   State.

8. The principal Act shall be construed as if there
   were included in the First Schedule to that Act the
   list of crimes contained in the Schedule to this Act.

SCHEDULE.
LIST OF CRIMES.

THE following list of crimes is to be construed according to the
law existing in England or in a British possession (as the case
may be) at the date of the alleged crime, whether by common
law or by statute made before or after the passing of this
Act :—

Kidnapping and false imprisonment.

Perjury, and subornation of perjury, whether under common
or statute law.

Any indictable offence under "The Larceny Act, 1861," or
any Act amending or substituted for the same which is not
included in the First Schedule to the principal Act.

Any indictable offence under the Act of the Session of the
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present
Majesty, chapter ninety-seven, "To consolidate and amend the
Statute Law of England and Ireland relating to Malicious
Injuries to Property," or any Act amending or substituted for
the same, which is not included in the First Schedule to the
principal Act.

Any indictable offence under the Act of the Session of the
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present
Majesty, chapter ninety-eight, "To consolidate and amend the
Statute Law of England and Ireland, relating to Indictable
Offences by Forgery," or any Act amending or substituted for
the same, which is not included in the First Schedule to the
principal Act.

Any indictable offence under the Act of the Session of the
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present
Majesty, chapter ninety-nine, "To consolidate and amend the
Statute Law of the United Kingdom against Offences relating
to the Coin," or any Act amending or substituted for the same,
which is not included in the First Schedule to the principal
Act.

Any indictable offence under the Act of the Session of the
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present
Majesty, chapter one hundred, "To consolidate and amend the

Statute Law of England and Ireland relating to Offences against
the Person," or any Act amending or substituted for the same,
which is not included in the First Schedule to the principal Act.

Any indictable offence under the laws for the time being in
force in relation to bankruptcy which is not included in the
First Schedule to the principal Act.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th November, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the following gentlemen to be
Registrars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, and also Vaccination Inspectors, for the
Districts set opposite their names, as the same are
defined in Proclamation of the 7th day of November,
1873, and published in this Gazette :—
WILFRED JACKSON, Esq.,—Hampden.
JOHN KEEN, Esq.,—Palmerston.
ALEXANDER PIRIE, Esq.,—Otepopo.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th November, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the following gentlemen to be
Registrars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, and also Vaccination Inspectors, for the
Districts set opposite their names, as the same are
defined in Proclamation of the 7th day of November,
1873, and published in this Gazette :—
WILLIAM COLLINS ANDREWS, Esq.,—Geraldine.
HENRY FORWARD, Esq.,—Temuka.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Mayor elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1873.

IT is hereby notified, that, in conformity with clause
133 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
the name of
GEORGE GLENN, Esq.,
has been sent in to this office by the Town Clerk as
having been elected Mayor of the Borough of
Greymouth.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Mayor elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1873.

IT is hereby notified, that, in conformity with clause
3 of "The Otago Municipal Corporations Em-
powering Act, 1865," the name of the under-mentioned
person has been sent to this office by the Town Clerk
as having been elected Mayor of Cromwell:—
JAMES DAWKINS, Esq.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Examiner of Titles appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th November, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ANDREW TURNBULL, Esq.,
to be an Examiner of Titles in and for the Wellington
Land Registration District.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice).