Num. 59.

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1875.

Additional Regulations under “The Electric
Telegraph Act, 1865.”

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of October 1875.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled “The Electric Tele-
graph Act, 1865,” the Governor of New Zealand
is empowered to establish lines of Electric Telegraph,
and to purchase any lines of Electric Telegraph then
existing: And whereas by the said Act it is, amongst
other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor, by Order in Council, to make regulations
for the transmission and delivery of all despatches,
messages, and communications by means of any such
line, and in like manner to fix and determine the
fees, rates, or dues to be demanded and received for
the transmission of any such despatch, message, or
communication, and for the delivery thereof, respect-
ively, and the modes and times of payment, and
to regulate the conduct, management, working, and
maintenance of any such telegraph line, and any
such fees, rates, dues, or regulations from time to time
to increase or lower, repeal, alter, or vary respectively,
and direct and make such others as may be deemed
expedient, and such fees, rates, and dues may be
legally recovered; and such regulations shall have
the force of law when published in the Government
Gazette of the Colony:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers vested in him by the hereinbefore recited Act,
doth, with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, make the additional regu-
lations contained in the Schedule hereto: And in
further pursuance and exercise of the said powers,
and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, His
said Excellency doth hereby order and declare that
such regulations shall take effect from and after
the first of November, one thousand eight hundred

and seventy-five, and that they shall be read with and
form part of the regulations now in force.

SCHEDULE.

TELEGRAMS may be sent to Chambers of Commerce
in New Zealand, notifying the arrival or departure
of steamers at or from any port in New Zealand, at
the rate of 3d. per telegram; provided that each
telegram shall contain only the name of one steamer,
the date and hour of her arrival or departure, and
destination. Every such telegram shall be made
“collect” by the sender, and shall be paid for by
the receiver on delivery.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Sections 20 to 45 of the Public Health Act to be
in force in the Town of Invercargill.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of October, 1875.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the nineteenth section of “The
Public Health Act, 1872,” it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may make orders from time to
time directing that the provisions thereafter in
Second Part of the said Act contained, or any of
them, be put in force in New Zealand, or in such
parts thereof or in such places therein as in such
orders respectively may be expressed, and may in
like manner revoke or renew any such order; and,
subject to revocation or renewal as aforesaid, every
such order shall be in force for six calendar months
from the publication of such order, or for such
shorter period as in such order shall be expressed,
and no longer; and every such order shall be pub-
lished in the General Government Gazette, and such
publication shall be conclusive evidence of such order
to all intents and purposes; and none of the said
provisions shall be in force in any part of New