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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Patea Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Henry Edward Poynter Adams. Date of resignation, 3rd February, 1888.

Woodville Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant William Burgess Rountree. Date of resignation, 21st February, 1888.

Cromwell School Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Captain John Adolphus De Ravin. Date of resignation, 2nd February, 1888.

THOS. FERGUS.

Acceptance of Service of Volunteer Corps cancelled.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancel Gazette notice of the 6th October, 1887, No. 62, page 1264, accepting the service of the Nelson Rifle Volunteer Corps.

THOS. FERGUS.

Designation of Volunteer Corps altered.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the designation of the “South Dunedin Rifle Volunteers” being changed to the “Dunedin City Rifle Volunteers.”

THOS. FERGUS.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by
WILLIAM MEIKLE, Esq., of Mercury Bay;
GEORGE CROSBIE, Esq., of Edendale; and
ROBERT WALKER, Esq., of Parnell, Auckland,
of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the colony.

THOS. FERGUS.

Native Assessors elected.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th March, 1888.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hands of the respective Returning Officers, that
HIRA TE POPO
has been duly elected to be Native Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Waioeka; that
TOHA RAHURAHU
has been duly elected to be Native Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Waikaremoana; and that
WIREMU HOUMUKU
has been duly elected to be Native Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Raglan.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Under-Secretary.

Despatch.—Provisions of “Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” extended to Republic of Paraguay.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1888.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

T. W. HISLOP.

(Circular No. 57.)
Downing Street, 9th January, 1888.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council (29th December, 1887), extending the provisions of “The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” to the Republic of Paraguay.

I have, &c.,
H. T. HOLLAND.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the twenty-ninth day of December, 1887.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” it is provided that, whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant-ships in the territories of any foreign Power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant-ships belonging to a subject of such Power when within Her Majesty’s dominions shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such order, and may render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed expedient:

And whereas it hath been made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant-ships in the territories of the Republic of Paraguay will be given under a treaty between the Governments of Great Britain and Paraguay, signed at Assumption on the 16th October, 1884:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said “Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that, from and after the publication hereof in the London Gazette, seamen, not being slaves (and not being British subjects), who desert from merchant-ships belonging to the Republic of Paraguay within Her Majesty’s dominions shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships; provided always that if any such deserter has committed any crime in Her Majesty’s dominions he may be detained until he has been tried by a competent Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been fully carried into effect.

And the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Secretary of State for India in Council, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

Despatch.—Coinage of Sixpences with New Design authorised.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1888.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

T. W. HISLOP.

(Circular No. 55.)
Downing Street, 23rd December, 1887.

SIR,—With reference to my circular despatch of the 13th of August last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the colony under your Government, the accompanying copy of an order of the Queen in Council (28th November, 1887), approving the draft of a Royal Proclamation for giving currency to certain silver coins called “sixpences,” with a new design therein described, and directing the coining of such coins at the Royal Mint.

I request that you will take steps to publish the Proclamation and Order in Council in the usual manner in the colony under your Government.

I have, &c.,
H. T. HOLLAND.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the twenty-eighth day of November, 1887.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board the draft of a Proclamation for giving currency to certain silver coins, called “sixpences,” with a new design therein described:

Her Majesty, having taken the same into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the coins described in the Proclamation be coined at Her Majesty’s Mint.

And the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury are to give the necessary directions accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

DRAFT PROCLAMATION referred to in the foregoing Order.

BY THE QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Coinage Act, 1870,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for Us, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, from time to time, by Proclamation, to determine the design for any coin:

Now, therefore, We have, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, thought fit to determine and do order that certain coins called “sixpences,” made and to be made at the Mint, and mentioned in the First Schedule to the afore-