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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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of their appointments as Clerks at Naseby, Clyde
and Alexandra, Cromwell, and Arrowtown, respec-
tively, of the District Court of the Otago Gold
Fields.

THOMAS DICK,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Election of Trustees, Lake Rabbit District, Lake
County.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1881.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under
the hand of the Returning Officer, Mr. J. Edgar,
that on the 26th instant the following persons were
duly elected Trustees for the Lake Rabbit Dis-
trict:-

CHARLES CROFTON BOTES,
JOHN BUTEMENT,
JOSEPH RODGERS,
ROBERT Ross, and
WILLIAM SINCLAIR DALRYMPLE TROTTER.

THOMAS DICK.

Election of Trustees for Otaraia Rabbit District,
County of Wairarapa West.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1881.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the
hand of the Returning Officer, Mr. Wolters,
that on the 1st instant the following persons were
duly elected Trustees for the Otaraia Rabbit Dis-
trict:-

PETER HUME,
EDWARD ESPY MARTIN,
COLEMAN PHILLIPS,
JOHN PURVIS RUSSELL, and
WILLIAM SMITH.

THOMAS DICK.

Trustees for Awhea Rabbit District, County of
Wairarapa East, elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1881.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the
hand of the Returning Officer, Mr. W. Skeet,
that the following persons were duly elected Trustees
for the Awhea Rabbit District:-

WILLIAM MCLEOD,
EDWARD JOSHUA RIDDIFORD,
CHARLES PHARAZYN,
WILLIAM WRATTEN, and
JOHN TULLY.

THOMAS DICK.

Rules under the Western Pacific Order in Council
of 1877.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1881.

THE following rules, issued by Her Majesty's
High Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
under the provisions of section 152 of the Western
Pacific Order in Council of 1877, are published for
general information,

THOMAS DICK.

RULES BY HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S HIGH COM
MISSIONER OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC, with the
advice and assistance of the Chief Justice of Fiji,
under Section 152 of the Western Pacific Order
in Council of 1877.

WHEREAS the High Commissioner, with the
advice and assistance of the Chief Justice of
Fiji, is empowered from time to time, by writing
under the hand and official seal of the High Com-
missioner and the hand of the Chief Justice of Fiji,
to make rules for the better execution of the pro-
visions of the Western Pacific Order in Council of
1877, the following rules are hereby made in con-
formity therewith:--

1. In all cases where a charge or complaint which,
   if made within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
   of Fiji, would be a charge or complaint of an indict-
   able offence, is made to any officer commanding any
   of Her Majesty's ships or schooners cruising within
   the waters of the Western Pacific, against a person
   subject to the jurisdiction of the High Commissioner's
   Court, or where it has come to the knowledge of
   such officer that such an offence against the provi-
   sions of the Western Pacific Orders in Council of
   1877 and 1879 has been committed, the said officer,
   when he shall be of opinion that, from the circumstances
   and evidence brought to his knowledge, it is neces-
   sary for the peace of the Western Pacific that such
   charge or complaint should be speedily dealt with,
   shall have all the powers for bringing such person
   before the High Commissioner's Court that a
   stipendiary Magistrate, under the practice and pro-
   cedure of the Supreme Court of Fiji, has or may
   have to bring an accused person before himself who
   is guilty or suspected to be guilty of committing an
   indictable offence; that is to say, it shall be lawful
   for the said officer to issue a warrant, according to
   the form in the Schedule hereto, to apprehend such
   person to answer such charge or complaint before
   the High Commissioner's Court, and to be further
   dealt with according to law.

2. The said officer shall either bring the person so
   apprehended before the nearest Deputy Commissioner,
   or cause him to be conveyed to the place where the
   nearest Deputy Commissioner resides, in order that
   a preliminary inquiry be made into the charge or
   complaint, or for trial, as the case may be, as soon
   as possible after his apprehension, or, where there is no
   Deputy Commissioner near, shall so bring or cause
   to be conveyed the person so apprehended to the
   High Commissioner or Assistant High Commissioner
   at Fiji, for the purposes of committal and trial before
   the Judicial Commissioner or otherwise, as may be
   determined.

3. The said officer shall have authority to arrange
   for the attendance of such witnesses, native or other-
   wise, as may be necessary to support the charge or
   complaint, and to bring them or cause them to be
   conveyed along with the accused person, the expense
   of their passage and maintenance to be defrayed
   from the funds at the disposal of the High Com-
   missioner.

4. In cases where no immediate danger to the
   peace may be apprehended from the commission of
   the offence in regard to which a charge or complaint
   has been made, or which has come to the knowledge
   of the officer aforesaid, or where the officer shall
   have been unable to arrange for the attendance of
   the witnesses necessary to support the charge, the
   said officer may, instead of issuing a warrant for the
   apprehension of the person charged, take depositions
   on oath from the witnesses to the facts, and send
   such depositions to the nearest Deputy Commissioner
   or to the High Commissioner or Assistant High
   Commissioner at Fiji, and the Court may, upon such
   depositions, if it see fit, issue a summons or warrant