THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 397

part of Her Majesty's Dominions, unless the period 1876, and shall apply not only to Colonial Certifi-
of suspension has expired, or unless intimation has cates of Competency granted under this Order, but
been received from the Board of Trade, or the Go- to such as shall have been granted under the Order
vernment by whom the cancelled or suspended cer- hereby revoked and be subsisting at the above date.
tificate was originally granted, to the effect that no
objection to the grant of such colonial certificate is
known to exist, or unless a new certificate has been
granted to him by such Board or Government, and
in the last-named event no such Colonial Certificate
of Competency shall be for a higher grade than the
certificate so last granted as aforesaid.
C. L. PEEL.

Colonial Certificates of Competency granted con-
trary to this regulation shall be regarded as im-
properly granted.

Certificates improperly granted may be cancelled
without formal investigation.

7. Any such Colonial Certificate of Competency
   which appears, from information subsequently ac-
   quired or otherwise, to have been improperly granted,
   whether in the above or in any other respect, may be
   cancelled by the Governor for the time being of the
   said possession, or by the Board of Trade in the
   United Kingdom, without any formal investigation,
   under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and
   the holder of such Certificate shall thereupon de-
   liver it to the Board of Trade, or the Governor for
   the time being of the said possession, or as they or
   either of them may direct, and in default thereof
   shall incur a penalty not exceeding £50, which
   shall be recoverable in the same manner as penalties
   imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping
   are thereby made recoverable.

Cancellation, &c., of a Certificate shall involve can-
cellation of all the other Certificates possessed by its
owner.

8. Every decision with respect to the cancellation
   or suspension of a certificate pronounced by any
   Board, Court, or tribunal under the provisions of the
   said Acts, shall extend equally to all the colonial
   certificates at the time possessed by the person in
   respect of whom the decision is made, as well as to
   all certificates granted to him under any of the Acts
   relating to Merchant Shipping, and whether such
   certificates be specified in such decision or not.

Certificates believed to be fraudulent may be
demanded.

9. Any officer of the Board of Trade, or the
   Registrar-General of Seamen, or any of his officers,
   or a superintendent of a mercantile marine office, or
   a consular officer, or duly appointed shipping officer
   in a British possession, may demand the delivery to
   him of any such Colonial Certificate of Competency
   which he has reason to believe has been improperly
   issued, or is forged, altered, cancelled, or suspended,
   or to which the person using it is not justly entitled,
   and may detain such certificate for a reasonable
   period, for the purpose of making inquiries respect-
   ing such issue, forgery, alteration, cancellation, sus-
   pension, or possession, and any person who without
   reasonable cause neglects or refuses to comply with
   such demand shall incur a penalty not exceeding
   £20, which shall be recoverable in the same manner
   as penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Mer-
   chant Shipping are thereby made recoverable.

Suspended Certificates to be re-issued only by Colony
by which originally granted.

10. Any such Colonial Certificate of Competency
    which has from any cause been cancelled or sus-
    pended, whether by a tribunal in New Zealand or
    elsewhere, shall be renewed or re-issued only by the
    Governor for the time being of New Zealand.

This Order shall take effect in the said Possession
of New Zealand from and after the 1st day of April,

[New Zealand, No. 14.]

Downing Street, 8th March, 1876.

MY LORD,—I referred for the consideration of the
Board of Trade a copy of your Despatch No. 81, of
the 5th of November last, enclosing a representation
from your Government urging the necessity of Im-
perial legislation to secure the safe stowage of gun-
powder and other explosive materials on board
merchant vessels, and I enclose a copy of the reply
which I have received from that department.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON,

Governor the Most Honorable the Marquis
of Normanby, K.C.M.G., &c., &c.

The Board of Trade to the Colonial Office.

[M. 1041.]

EMIGRATION, MISCELLANEOUS.

Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens,
26th January, 1876.

SIR,—I am directed by the Board of Trade to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th
instant, transmitting, by direction of the Earl of
Carnarvon, a copy of a despatch from the Governor
of New Zealand, enclosing a representation from his
Government urging the necessity of legislation to
secure the safe stowage of gunpowder and other
explosives on board merchant vessels, and in reply to
state, for His Lordship's information, that the Board
do not think that it would be advisable to introduce
any legislative measure on this subject at the present
time.

I am to add that, as suggested by Mr. Harvey, the
matter would appear to be one for the consideration
of the underwriters.

I have, &c.,
THOMAS GREY.

The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1876.—NOTICE No. 11.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1876.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information:--

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend JOHN HOBBS.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Issue of Industrial Policies discontinued.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 5 of
"The Government Insurance and Annuities
Act, 1874," and to the terms of an Order in Council
made the third day of June now instant, I do hereby
give notice that by the said Order in Council the
issue of Industrial Policies is to be discontinued
from and after the thirtieth day of June next.

Dated this seventh day of June, 1876.

J. WOODWARD,
Deputy Commissioner.