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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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the decision of the Public Trustee shall be conclusive:

(b.) That, where moneys in the Public Trustee’s Account, forming part of a lunatic, or testate, or intestate estate, are not payable as mentioned in paragraph (a), but are payable, or should be distributed, invested, or otherwise disposed of in the due course of administration, then, so soon as the Public Trustee has, or should in the due course of administration have, ascertained what is the net balance to be paid, distributed, invested, or otherwise disposed of, interest shall be payable on such balance at the rate of £3 10s. per cent. per annum in respect of lunatic and intestate estates for all sums of £50 and upwards, and in respect of testate estates at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum: Provided that this limitation shall not apply to the rate of interest payable to persons entitled under intestacy where such persons are minors, but such persons shall be entitled to interest at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum on all sums of £20 and upwards.

Interest shall be computed on every complete pound from the first day of the month following the day of the receipt of such moneys into the Public Trustee’s Account up to the first day of the calendar month in which the capital, or interest, or both, is paid to the person entitled, and shall be allowed clear of any charges for the receipt or collection thereof.

Interest shall only be payable on the capital, and shall not be computed upon interest unless where such interest is expressly directed to be accumulated and form part of the capital, and then only on an amount of £20 and upwards.

No capital moneys paid into the Consolidated Fund under section 76 of “The Public Revenues Act, 1891,” shall be deemed to have borne interest while the same remained in the Public Trust Office.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Date of Payment of Income-tax.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1895.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him under “The Land-tax and Income-tax Act, 1895,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and determine that the respective duties leviable under the said Act by way of income-tax shall be paid in one sum on Friday, the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

And, in further pursuance and exercise of the power and authority aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, His Excellency doth also determine that the place where the said duties of income-tax shall be payable shall be the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, at the Government Buildings, Wellington, and that notice to the foregoing effect shall be given by the said Commissioner accordingly.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amended Order in Council: Telephoning Telegrams through Exchanges.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1895.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, certain regulations were made under the authority of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884,” providing that telegrams which are intended to be forwarded or delivered from the telegraph-office at any place where a Telephone Exchange is situated may be forwarded through the Telephone Exchange to or from such telegraph-office by the sender or to the addressee of such telegram:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke such regulations, and in lieu thereof to make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance of all the powers in that behalf enabling him, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by the Order in Council of the twenty-sixth day of November last and published as aforesaid, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall have effect on and from the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

SCHEDULE.

1. SUBSCRIBERS to Telephone Exchanges may, by application at a telegraph-office, request that telegraphic messages (other than “delayed telegrams”) which are addressed to them be forwarded by telephone from the telegraph-office of destination to their business or private address, and thereafter such telegraph messages will, after transmission, be posted for delivery to such address, and be marked on the face “Transmitted by telephone.”

2. The hours during which this system may be availed of shall be the ordinary hours of attendance of the telegraph-office, except in the case of stations at which officers are on duty until 10 p.m., when the messages may be telephoned until that hour.

3. The charges for transmitting telegrams as above shall be as follows:—

A fee of £5 5s. per annum, paid in advance; or, s. d. in other cases, for each separate transmission, provided the telephone conversation does not exceed three minutes . . . . 0 6
For each additional three minutes or fraction thereof . . . . 0 6

When the fee is paid by time, one conversation may include two or more messages, including any referred to in the next succeeding section. The fee should be affixed in stamps to a docket which will be provided, and presented to the telegraph-office immediately after the message has been telephoned.

4. Telephone Exchange subscribers may also telephone to any telegraph-office connected with a Telephone Exchange, during the ordinary hours of telegraph attendance, any messages, not exceeding fifty words in length, to be further transmitted from the telegraph-office to the respective destinations of such messages as telegrams, provided the usual cost of such telegrams is paid in addition to the above rates.

5. Prior to telephoning any such message to a telegraph-office the sender shall reduce such message to writing, and, immediately after transmission, if telephoned before 5 p.m., deliver such written message to the telegraph-office, with the charges affixed in stamps. Messages telephoned after 5 p.m. must be presented not later than 10 o’clock the following morning.

6. The department reserves the right to exclude any person from the privilege of sending or receiving telegrams by telephone under this system until any arrears of fees which may be due are fully paid, and to demand a deposit before registering any application.

7. The transcribed copies of telegrams telephoned by subscribers will, so far as the department is concerned, become the original telegrams, and the department will not assume or be subject to any liability by reason or on account of any failure, delay, or mistake in or about the transmission, receipt, or delivery of any telegram under this system, from whatever cause the same may arise.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations made by the Governor under “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892,” and Acts amending the Same.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of every power and authority conferred upon me by “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892,” and of every other power and authority in that behalf me thereunto enabling, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make the regulations under “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892,” set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In substitution for and repeal of paragraphs 10 and 11 of the Governor’s regulations of the 27th day of October, 1892, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 31st day of October, 1892, it is provided,—

1. That, if the Public Trustee determines to give effect to an application made under section 8 of “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892,” he shall first proceed to ascertain, in manner hereinafter provided,—(a) the value of the land comprised in such application at the time of the valuation as for an estate in fee-simple, exclusive of the im-