JUNE 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1435

due notice of any intended application to Your Majesty in Council to bring him on the record as a respondent to the appeal the appellant shall not subject to any direction by Their Lordships to the contrary be required to take out appearance orders calling upon the said respondent to enter an appearance in the appeal and the appeal may, subject as aforesaid be set down for hearing ex parte as against the said respondent at any time after the expiration of three calendar months from the date on which the said respondent shall have been served with a copy of Your Majesty's Order in Council bringing him on the record of the appeal in like manner as if the said appearance orders had been taken out by the appellant and the times thereby respectively limited for the said respondent to enter an appearance had expired.

“3. That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the power of Their Lordships to order the appellant in an appeal referred by Your Majesty to Their Lordships to take out appearance orders or to be excused from taking out appearance orders in any case in which Their Lordships shall think fit so to order and generally to give such directions as to the time at which and the conditions on which an appeal so referred as aforesaid shall be set down as in the opinion of Their Lordships the circumstances of the case may require.

“4. That this order shall apply to all appeals in which the petition of appeal shall be lodged after the date hereof.”

His Majesty, having taken the said representation into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof, and of what is therein recommended. Whereof all persons whom it may concern are to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.

A. W. FITZROY.

New Zealand.—“Friendly Societies Act, 1882.”—Advertisement of Dissolution by Instrument.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court Townley No. 8292, of the Auckland District of the Ancient Order of Foresters’ Society, Register No. 17(20), held at Gisborne, is dissolved by instrument, registered at this office the 2nd day of June, 1905, unless, within three months from the date of the Gazette in which this advertisement appears, proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having any claim on the funds of the society to set aside such dissolution, and the same is set aside accordingly.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
2nd June, 1905.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—ALFRED GEORGE DAVIDSON, Esq., of Mansfield, Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has this day been appointed by His Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1905.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

RETURN of IMMIGRATION to and EMIGRATION from the COLONY of NEW ZEALAND during the MONTH of APRIL, 1905, showing the Places from which Persons arrived and to which they departed, and the Ports of Arrival and Departure.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES FROM AND TO DIFFERENT PLACES.

• From Cape Colony. † For Norfolk Island, 21; Natal, 2. ‡ From Tonga. § For Tonga.
  || From San Francisco. ¶ For San Francisco, 90; Monte Video, 17; Rio de Janeiro, 6.

ARRIVALS AT AND DEPARTURES FROM DIFFERENT NEW ZEALAND PORTS.*

CHINESE.—Arrivals—At Auckland, 4; Wellington, 18. Departures—From Wellington, 48.

• It is important to mention that, in the returns from which this table is made up, immigrants to the colony are all counted at the first port of arrival, and emigrants at the final port of departure.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1905.