FEB. 14.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
189

Local and Personal Acts.

No. 1. "An Act to enable the Auckland Harbour Board to
lay out and construct Roads over certain Land to
be reclaimed from the Sea in the Harbour of Auck-
land, and to alienate Portions of such Land."
No. 2. "An Act to vary certain of the Provisions of 'The
Auckland Hospital Reserves Act, 1883.'"
No. 3. "An Act to vest in Trustees certain Land acquired
for a Drill-shed at Whangarei."
No. 4. "An Act to authorise the issue of Crown Grants to
Land in the Occupation of certain German Settlers
at Puhoi, in Auckland."
No. 5. "An Act to authorise the Leasing of a certain Unused
Portion of a Public Cemetery at Ngaruawahia."
No. 6. "An Act to vest in the Corporation of the Waikato
County the Land set apart for a Model Farm in the
said County."
No. 7. "An Act to grant certain Concessions to Mr. Joshua
Jones in regard to the Mokau-Mohakatino Block."
No. 8. "An Act to further amend 'The Gisborne Harbour
Act, 1884.'"
No. 9. "An Act to define the Reserves of the Wellington
Hospital, Lunatic Asylum, Home for the Aged, and
Orphanage."
No. 10. "An Act to enable the Governors of the Wellington
College and Girls' High School to convey to the
Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wel-
lington a certain Piece of Land for the Purpose of
widening a Street in the said City called College
Lane, and to enable the said Mayor, Councillors,
and Citizens to convey to the said Governors
another Piece of Land in exchange therefor."
No. 11. "An Act to amend 'The Thorndon Reclamation
Act, 1882.'"
No. 12. "An Act to make an Appropriation of certain Re-
serves of Land for the Nelson Hospital."
No. 13. "An Act to validate an Order in Council made on
the Twenty-fifth day of June, One thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three, and certain Proceedings
taken in consequence thereof."
No. 14. "An Act to vest in Trustees the Christchurch Rifle-
range."
No. 15. "An Act to vest the Control and Management of
certain Portions of Road- or Street-lines in the
Township of Opawa in the Waimate High School
Board."
No. 16. "An Act to vest in Trustees certain Land acquired
for a Drill-shed at Kaiapoi."
No. 17. "An Act to authorise the Mount Somers Road Board
to sell Part of Reserve One thousand six hundred
and thirty-one, in the Provincial District of Can-
terbury, with the Buildings erected thereon."
No. 18. "An Act to make further Provision for the Sale of the
Crown Lands around Lake Ellesmere in Canter-
bury."
No. 19. "An Act to amend 'The Timaru Harbour Board
Loan Act, 1885.'"
No. 20. "An Act to authorise the Exchange of certain Re-
serves in the Town of Oamaru for other Pieces of
Freehold Land more centrally situated in the same
Town."
No. 21. "An Act to validate certain Payments made by the
Otago Harbour Board and the Manner in which
the Accounts of the said Board have been hereto-
fore kept, and to specify how such Accounts are to
be kept hereafter, and to vest certain Lands in the
said Board."
No. 22. "An Act to grant or otherwise assure to the Chair-
man and Trustees of the Clyde Athenæum and
Public Library certain Lands in the Township of
Clyde, being portions of Street-lines intersecting
the Public Domain and Recreation-ground."
No. 23. "An Act to dissolve the New River Harbour Board,
and to vest in the Mayor, Councillors, and Bur-
gesses of the Borough of Invercargill all the Powers
and Property of the said Board, and to empower
the said Corporation to raise a Special Loan to pay
the Liabilities of the said Board, and for other
Purposes."
No. 24. "An Act empowering the Governor to grant certain
Land to Francis Wallace MacKenzie, of Waipahi."
No. 25. "An Act to empower the Governor to carry out an
Arrangement for the Compensation to be made to
Archibald Hilson Ross, of Opotiki, for Land taken
for Road from Opotiki to Waiotahi."
No. 26. "An Act to enable the Governor to fulfil certain
Contracts and Promises made by or on behalf of
the Government."
No. 27. "An Act in Supplement of 'The Middle Island Half-
caste Grants Act, 1877,' and the several Acts
amending the same."

No. 28. "An Act in Settlement of certain Claims to Land of
Naval and Military Settlers and Volunteers."
I have &c..
KNUTSFORD.
Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, K.C.M.G.

Western Pacific. - Supply of Intoxicating Liquors to
Natives prohibited.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1889.
THE following despatch and enclosure, received from
the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, are
published for general information.
T. W. HISLOP.

High Commissioner's Office, Western Pacific,
Suva, Fiji, 18th January, 1889.
SIR,-I have the honour to enclose, for your Excellency's
information, copy of a regulation which I have made under
the Western Pacific Order in Council of 1879, No. 4 of 1888,
to prohibit the supply of intoxicating liquor to natives of
the Western Pacific. I should be obliged by your Excellency
causing this regulation to be published in the Government
Gazette of New Zealand.

I have, &c.,
JOHN B. THURSTON.

His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand.

(No. 4 of 1888.)
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Qucen,
Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, &c.

A REGULATION (made in the name and on behalf of Her
Majesty by Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the
Western Pacific, under the provisions of the Western
Pacific Order in Council, 1879) to prohibit the Supply
of Intoxicating Liquors to Natives of the Western
Pacific Islands.

(L.S.) JOHN B. THURSTON.
26th December, 1888.

1. REGULATIONS Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of 1879, prohibiting the
   supply of intoxicating liquors to natives of certain islands
   of the Western Pacific, are hereby repealed.
2. In this regulation the expression-
   "Western Pacific Islands" shall mean and include any
   of the following islands or places, namely: The
   groups of islands known as the Friendly Islands,
   the Navigators Islands, the Union Islands, the
   Phœnix Islands, the Ellice Islands, the Gilbert
   Islands, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides
   Islands, the Santa Cruz Islands; all other islands
   in the Western Pacific Ocean not being within the
   limits of the Colonies of Fiji, Queensland, New
   South Wales, or New Guinea, and not being within
   the jurisdiction of any civilised power:
   "Native" shall mean and include in its reference every
   person in the Western Pacific not of European
   descent:
   "Intoxicating liquor" shall include all spirituous com-
   pounds and all fermented liquors, and any mixture
   part whereof is spirituous or which contains fer-
   mented liquors, and any mixture or preparation
   containing any drug capable of producing in-
   toxication.
3. If any British subject in the Western Pacific sells or
   gives or otherwise supplies, either directly or indirectly, any
   native of any island or place within the Western Pacific
   Islands any intoxicating liquor he shall, on conviction
   thereof before the Court of Her Majesty's High Commis-
   sioner, be liable to punishment as follows:-
   (1.) Imprisonment for any term not exceeding three
   months with or without hard labour, and with or
   without a fine not exceeding ten pounds; or,
   (2.) A fine alone not exceeding ten pounds without any
   imprisonment.
4. It shall not be an offence under this regulation for any
   person to give to any native for any urgent cause or neces-
   sity, and without recompense or remuneration, any intoxica-
   ting liquor when such intoxicating liquor is given solely and
   purely for medicinal purposes; but it shall rest with the
   person giving such intoxicating liquor to prove to the satis-
   faction of the Court the existence of such urgent necessity,
   and, failing such proof, such person shall be liable to the
   punishment provided in section 3 hereof.
5. This regulation shall come into force on the first day of
   January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
   dred and eighty-nine.
   By command.
   JOHN R. FAREWELL,
   Acting Secretary to the High Commissioner.