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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 12

Mayor of Westport, to be a Justice of the Peace under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 3rd November, 1882.
SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information
in the colony under your Government, a copy of the report of
Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., C.M.G., Representative of
the Governments of New South Wales, Victoria, and South
Australia, at the International Phylloxera Congress held at
Bordeaux in October, 1881.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th January, 1883.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
THOMAS DUFFY, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Registrar, at Blenheim, of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

INTERNATIONAL PHYLLOXERA CONGRESS OF BORDEAUX.—
OCTOBER, 1881.

REPORT of W. T. THISELTON DYER, Esq., C.M.G., F.R.S.,
Representative, at the Congress, of the Governments of New
South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria.

1. THE first meeting of the Congress was held at half-past 9
   on the morning of the 10th of October, and the final meeting
   was held on the morning of the following Saturday, the 15th.
2. Besides myself, Mr. Roland Trimen, F.L.S., F.Z.S., who
   represented the Cape of Good Hope, was the only other
   Englishman accredited to the Congress.
3. The other foreign delegates present were few. Italy,
   Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, and the United States of
   America were, however, officially represented.
4. The function of the foreign delegates was, however, for
   the most part purely formal. The Congress had, in point of
   fact, little that was international about it. It was essentially a
   gathering of French wine-growers, with whose anxiety and
   earnestness in the matter it was impossible not to be even
   painfully impressed. But it was instructive to learn from their
   own lips the gravity and extent of the destruction with which
   the great wine-industry of France is menaced. It was no less
   important to ascertain what was the opinion of practical men
   as to the various methods which have been thought most
   efficacious in combating the ravages of the Phylloxera. But the
   real aim of the Congress seemed to be to impart information to
   the small proprietors. The functions of journalism in France
   in extra-political matters are curiously restricted. I learned
   on good authority that in the departments north of Bordeaux
   the smaller wine-growers had maintained an attitude of passive
   inaction till their vines had been irremediably injured, in the
   vain hope that the evil had been overstated, or that it would
   in time be at least insensibly mitigated. It seemed to me that
   the promoters of the Congress hoped that, by gathering a large
   assembly in the wine metropolis of Western France itself, they
   might produce a really vivid impression before it was altogether
   too late, and stimulate a greater determination in the use of
   remedial measures.

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st January, 1883.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the
under-mentioned persons to be the Clerks of the Licensing
Committees for the districts set opposite their names re-
spectively, from the 1st February, 1883 :-

Name.
District.

Thomas Seaman
James Hamlyn Greenway
Robert Mair
Graham Lord Greenwood
Robert Kelly
George Walter Cullen
William Pattison James
Joseph John Freeth
Robert Francis Mullan
Robert George Walker
Henry Hawthorn Grant Ralfe
Constable Michael Cleary
William Gabriel Filleul
William Randall Latham
William Somerville
Martin Pearce
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Mount Wellington.
Tamaki West.
Kawakawa.
Hikurangi.
Whangarei Town,
Patutahi.
Clyde.
Puketapu.
Epuni.
Carterton.
Carterton Town.
Featherston.
Featherston Town.
Karamea.
Christchurch North-West.
Christchurch North-East.
Christchurch South-West.
Christchurch South-East.
Palmerston South.
Otekaike.
Kakanui.
Papakaio,
Portobello.
Peninsula.
Caversham.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

5. It is difficult for foreigners to realize the magnitude of the
   loss which France has suffered. I quote the following state-
   ment from a short paper published last year by Mons. Ch. Joly,
   a well-known authority on French vegetable industries: "The
   report of the Director of Agriculture for 1880 shows that in
   France, of two millions of hectares planted with vines, 558,000
   hectares are entirely destroyed by the Phylloxera, and 454,000
   hectares are ready to succumb; the remainder is in peril.
   Forty-one departments (out of seventy-seven in which wine is
   grown) are more or less attacked. As to remedial measures,
   only 8,000 hectares are treated by submersion, 5,547 with
   bisulphide of carbon, 1,472 with sulpho-carbonates, and 6,441
   have been replanted with American vines."
6. The general plan of procedure adopted at the Congress was
   well devised. The General Committee had appointed, some
   weeks previously, three Commissions to report upon the follow-
   ing subjects: (1.) a. Treatment by bisulphide of carbon and
   sulpho-carbonates. (b.) Submersion. (2.) Cultivation of Ameri-
   can vines, and cultivation in sand. (3.) Consideration of other
   matters not submitted to the other two Commissions.
   The reports of these Commissions were read to the meetings,
   and formed the only practically valuable part of the proceedings
   of the Congress. The discussions were prolix in the extreme,
   and on three of the days lasted, with two intervals for breakfast
   and dinner, from 8 in the morning till midnight. From
   the point of view of a foreign delegate like myself, who came to
   obtain information and not to debate, the length to which the
   public business was protracted was a great hindrance. There
   were no informal gatherings at which it would have been pos-
   sible to converse with some of the leading wine-growers and
   obtain personal information from them.

Appointing Local Body to have Authority throughout Licensing
District.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th January, 1883.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
The GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL
to be the local body to have authority throughout the Licensing
Districts of Levels, Geraldine, and Mount Cook.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

7. On two points there appeared to be no dispute. The culti-
   vation of European vines can be successfully prosecuted in the
   face of the Phylloxera by the adoption of two methods: (1) an
   annual total submersion of the vineyard; (2) growing the vines
   in soil consisting of almost pure sand.
   The method of submersion has been applied with perfect
   success on some of the vineyards in the delta of the Loire, where
   the land is perfectly level. I myself saw a large vineyard which
   was so treated. The proprietor possessed in the neighbourhood

Interpreter licensed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1883.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to license
MATILDA MORGAN,
of Alexandra, to act as an Interpreter under "The Native
Land Court Act, 1880."
JOHN BRYCE.

Despatch. - Report on International Phylloxera Congress,
Bordeaux, 1881.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1883.
THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for
general information.
THOMAS DICK.