Oct. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1381

For the Macrae’s Riding: Henry Stewart McColl to be the Returning Officer, and day for holding first election to be the 26th October, 1882.

The first meeting of the Councillors of the County of Waihemo shall be held on the 4th November, 1882, at 2 o’clock p.m., at the Palmerston Road Board Offices, Copinha Street, Palmerston South.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Despatch relating to Issue of Colonial Certificates to Masters, Mates, and Engineers.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 26th September, 1882.

THE following despatch, with enclosure, relating to the issue of colonial certificates to masters, mates, and engineers, which has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

(New Zealand.—No. 31.)
Downing Street, 4th August, 1882.

SIR,—With reference to my despatch of the 11th January last enclosing a copy of a letter from the Board of Trade relating to the further modification of the domiciliary clause of the Order in Council issued to certain colonies under the provisions of section 8 of “The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869,” I have the honor to transmit to you, for communication to your Government, copy of a letter from the Board of Trade forwarding copies of a fresh Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 29th June last.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

Governor the Hon. Sir A. H. Gordon,
G.C.M.G., &c.

The Board of Trade to the Colonial Office.

Board of Trade (Marine Department),
Whitehall Gardens, S.W., 11th July, 1882.

Certificates.

SIR,—With reference to their letter of the 24th December last, relative to the further modification of the domiciliary clause of the Order in Council issued to the respective Colonies of Victoria, Canada, New Zealand, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, Newfoundland, and Malta, under the provisions of section 8 of “The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869,” I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, that Her Majesty has recently been pleased to sanction the issue of a fresh Order in Council revoking all previous orders, and substituting for the domicile clause (5) in such orders a provision requiring candidates for certificates of competency in the mercantile marine to prove that their previous service at sea has been such as is required by the regulations for the time being in force in the United Kingdom for certificates of the like grade.

Copies of the order in question are forwarded herewith, and I am to request that you will be so good as to move Lord Kimberley to cause the necessary steps to be taken for transmitting three copies to each of the colonies above referred to.

I have, &c.,
THOMAS GRAY.

The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of June, 1882.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869,” it is, among other things, enacted that, where the Legislature of any British possession provides for the examination of, and grant of certificates of competency to, persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and the Board of Trade reports to Her Majesty that they are satisfied that the examinations are so conducted as to be equally efficient as the examinations for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under the Acts relating to merchant shipping, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under the said Acts, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like manner, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council,—

1. To declare that the said certificates shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said Acts ;

2. To declare that all or any of the provisions of the said Acts which relate to certificates of competency granted under those Acts shall apply to the certificates referred to in the said order ;

3. To impose such conditions and to make such regulations with respect to the said certificates, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension thereof, as to Her Majesty may seem fit, and to impose penalties not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach of such conditions and regulations :

And that, upon the publication in the London Gazette of any such Order in Council as last aforesaid, the provisions therein contained shall, from a date to be mentioned for the purpose in such order, take effect as if they had been contained in the Act, and that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to revoke any order made as aforesaid :

And whereas the Legislatures of the British possessions of Canada, Malta and its dependencies, Victoria, New Zealand, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Bengal, Newfoundland, Bombay, and Queensland, have respectively provided for the examination of, and grant of certificates of competency to, persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, which certificates are hereinafter denominated colonial certificates of competency, and the Board of Trade have reported to Her Majesty that they are satisfied that the said examinations are so conducted as to be equally efficient as the examinations for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under the Acts relating to merchant shipping, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under the said Acts, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like manner :

And whereas Her Majesty, by various Orders in Council, and certain Orders in Council amending the same, has been pleased to declare that, subject to certain conditions and regulations therein contained, the colonial certificates of competency therein referred to granted by—

(a.) The Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Canada,

(b.) The Head of the Government of Malta and its Dependencies,

(c.) The Steam Navigation Board of Victoria, appointed by the Government of Victoria,

(d.) The Governor for the time being of New Zealand,