Nov. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1699

Native owners excepted) within the Manawatu Road District
for the purpose of paying interest at 5 per cent. per annum
on the above loan of £1,669, to be borrowed under 'The
Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.' Such rate
to be an annual-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and
payable by equal instalments on 1st day of February and
August in each year, at the Board's offices, Palmerston
North."

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly
made by the Manawatu Road Board at the regular meeting
of the Board held on the 13th day of November, 1894.

WALTER RUTHERFURD,
Clerk to the Manawatu Road Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Waiuku Road Board,
County of Manukau.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1894.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Waiuku Road Board, is published in accordance
with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

WAIUKU ROAD BOARD.

Result of a poll, taken on Saturday, the 4th August, 1894,
under the provisions of "The Loans to Local Bodies Act,
1886," in order to decide if a sum of £100 should be borrowed
by the Waiuku Road Board, under the provisions of "The
Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for the pur-
pose of finding half the money for cutting a drain across a
bend in the Aka Aka Stream, in the Te Uku Native
Reserve:—

On the special roll compiled for that portion of the dis-
trict which will be affected by the proposed special rate
there were 27 ratepayers, who were entitled to 28 votes:
16 ratepayers, entitled to 16 votes, voted for the proposal;
1 ratepayer, entitled to 1 vote, voted against the proposal;
10 ratepayers did not vote. I therefore declare the pro-
posal to be carried.

C. T. BARRIBALL,
Chairman, Waiuku Road Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Poverty Bay Road Board,
County of Cook.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1894.

THE following notice, received from the Poverty Bay
Road Board, is published in accordance with the pro-
visions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

POVERTY BAY ROAD DISTRICT BOARD. — MAKAURI SPECIAL
DISTRICT.

Notice is hereby given that at a poll of the ratepayers
within this special district taken on the 13th November,
1894, upon a proposal to raise a loan of £300, under "The
Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for the
drainage of certain lands and erection of culverts in this
special district, the following votes were recorded:—
For the proposal, 18 persons, exercising 27 votes; against
the proposal, none: Total number on the roll, 26 persons,
capable of exercising 35 votes.

As a majority of persons exercised a majority of votes in
favour of the proposal, I declare it carried.

WILLIAM KING,
Chairman.

Makaraka, 14th November, 1894.

Despatch.—Transmitting "The Prize Courts Act, 1894."

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th November, 1894.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is pub-
lished for general information.

A. J. CADMAN.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 17th September, 1894.
SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you for the informa-
tion of your Government a copy of an Act passed in the
last session of Parliament entitled "An Act to make Fur-
ther Provision for the Establishment of Prize Courts, and
for other Purposes connected therewith."

I have, &c.,
RIPON.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

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"PRIZE COURTS ACT, 1894."—CHAPTER 39.

An Act to make Further Provision for the Establishment
of Prize Courts, and for other Purposes connected there-
with.

[17th August, 1894.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament ad-
sembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as "The Prize Courts Act, 1894."

2. (1.) Any commission, warrant, or instructions from Her
   Majesty the Queen or the Admiralty for the purpose of com-
   missioning or regulating the procedure of a Prize Court at
   any place in a British possession may, notwithstanding the
   existence of peace, be issued at any time, with a direction
   that the Court shall act only upon such Proclamation as
   hereinafter mentioned being made in the possession.

(2.) Where any such commission, warrant, or instructions
have been issued, then, subject to instructions from Her
Majesty, the Vice-Admiral of such possession may, when
satisfied by information from a Secretary of State or other-
wise that war has broken out between Her Majesty and any
foreign State, proclaim that war has so broken out, and
thereupon the said commission, warrant, and instructions
shall take effect as if the same had been issued after the
breaking-out of such war, and such foreign State were named
therein.

(3.) The said commission and warrant may authorise either
a Vice-Admiralty Court or a Colonial Court of Admiralty,
within the meaning of "The Colonial Courts of Admiralty
Act, 1890," to act as a Prize Court, and may establish a
Vice-Admiralty Court for that purpose.

(4.) Any such commission, warrant, or instructions may be
revoked or altered from time to time.

(5.) A Court duly authorised to act as a Prize Court during
any war shall after the conclusion of the war continue so to
act in relation to, and finally dispose of, all matters and
things which arose during the war, including all penalties
and forfeitures incurred during the war.

3. (1.) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may make rules
   of Court for regulating, subject to the provisions of "The
   Naval Prize Act, 1864," and this Act, the procedure and
   practice of Prize Courts within the meaning of that Act, and
   the duties and conduct of the officers thereof and of the
   practitioners therein, and for regulating the fees to be taken
   by the officers of the Courts, and the costs, charges, and ex-
   penses to be allowed to the practitioners therein.

(2.) Every rule so made shall, whenever made, take effect
at the time therein mentioned, and shall be laid before both
Houses of Parliament, and shall be kept exhibited in a con-
spicuous place in each Court to which it relates.

(3.) This section shall be substituted for section thirteen
of "The Naval Prize Act, 1864," which section is hereby
repealed.

(4.) If any Colonial Court of Admiralty within the mean-
ing of "The Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890," is
authorised under this Act or otherwise to act as a Prize
Court, all fees arising in respect of prize business trans-
acted in the Court shall be fixed, collected, and applied in
like manner as the fees arising in respect of the Admiralty
business of the Court under the said Act.

4. Her Majesty the Queen in Council may make rules of
   Court for regulating the procedure and practice, including
   fees and costs, in a Vice-Admiralty Court, whether under
   this Act or otherwise.

5. Section twenty-five of "The Government of India Act,
   1800," is hereby repealed.

Notice to Mariners, No. 44 of 1894.

REEF OFF BLACKWOOD BAY, QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 16th November, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Harbourmaster at
Picton reports the existence of a reef with 18ft. of
water on it about half a mile S.W. by S. ¼ S. magnetic from
the eastern head of Blackwood Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound.

Vessels heading up the sound and steering mid-channel
course between Negara Island and the Snout will lead clear
of the reef.

A further survey of the reef will be made the next time
the Government steamer "Hinemoea" is in the locality.

J. G. WARD.