held in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled—

“ An Act to enable certain Commissioners appointed under the seal of the Colony to examine Witnesses on Oath,”

“ An Act to define the boundary between the Provinces of Canterbury and Otago,”

“ An Act to amend the law relating to advances bona fide made to Agents intrusted with goods,”

“ An Act for amending ‘ An Ordinance for establishing Standard Weights and Measures, and for the prevention of the use of such as are false and deficient,’ ”

“ An Act to declare that certain Statutes do not apply to Civil Cases before Resident Magistrates and Justices of the Peace,”

“ An Act for the Naturalization of certain persons in the Colony of New Zealand,”

“ An Act to amend the Ordinance of the late Legislative Council, intituled ‘ An Ordinance for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,’ ”

“ An Act to amend the Jury Amendment Ordinance,”

“ An Act to amend the New Zealand Company’s Land Claimants Ordinance, Session XI, No. 15,”

“ An Act to regulate the practice of the profession of the law in New Zealand,”

“ An Act to authorise the issue of a Grant for certain Land to Henry Colin Balneavis,”

“ An Act for authorizing the issue of Crown Grants in certain cases of loss of original Land Orders,”

“ An Act to amend ‘ The Registration of Electors’ Act, 1858,’ ”

“ An Act to amend ‘ The Canterbury and Otago Boundary Act, 1861,’ ”

“ An Act to authorise the preparation and the interim validity of amended Standing Orders for Private Bills,”

“ An Act to continue ‘ The Arms Act, 1860,’ ”

“ An Act to provide for the audit of the accounts of Provincial Governments,”

“ An Act to amend ‘ The New Provinces Act, 1858,’ ”

“ An Act to provide for the protection of certain Animals and Birds within the Colony of New Zealand,”

“ An Act to divide the Province of Auckland into new Electoral Districts for the election of Members of the Provincial Council,”

“ An Act for the due rendering of accounts by Official Administrators ceasing to hold the office of Registrar of the Supreme Court,”

“ An Act to amend the Act of the Legislature of the Province of Auckland, intituled ‘ The Immigration Certificate Act, 1858,’ ”

“ An Act for the taxation of costs on

Private Bills in the General Assembly,”

“ An Act to amend ‘ The Civil Service Superannuation Act, 1858,”

“ An Act to apply certain sums out of the ordinary Revenue, and other moneys, to the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,”

“ An Act to empower the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company (limited) to construct a Railway, and for other purposes,”

having been laid before the Queen, in conformity with the provisions of the “ Constitution Act,” Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to leave the same to their operation.

WILLIAM FOX.

R. A. Gunn appointed a Pilot.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, June, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

RALPH ABERCORMBY GUNN,

to be a Pilot for the Port of Otago.

WILLIAM FOX.

RAILWAYS.

J. E. Green, Papers from W. B. Adams, respecting construction of cheap Rail-roads.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 9th June, 1862.

THE following correspondence respecting the construction of cheap lines of rail road is published for general information.

WILLIAM FOX.

(See correspondence in General Government Gazette, No. 23, June 11, 1862.)

WARRANTS

Defining Districts under the “ Coroners’ Act, 1858.”

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the “ The Coroners’ Act, 1858,” the Governor is empowered in the manner therein mentioned, to appoint fit persons to be Coroners of the several Districts of the Colony of New Zealand, and from time to time to define the Districts within which such Coroners shall respectively have jurisdiction, and every such definition to revoke or amend, and the limits of such Districts to alter as occasion may require. Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the said power and authority, do hereby define