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prevent the above-named vessels from attaining their object by succeeding in this traffic, which is opposed to the laws of our country and to those of humanity.

(Signed) MANL A. FOCOBUA.

Mr. J. B. Were,
Consul for Chili, at Melbourne.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Dunedin, 5th May, 1863.

I, MICHAEL CREAGH, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, for the Provinces of Otago and Southland, do hereby notify that I have Registered a Memorandum of Association, with Articles of Association annexed, establishing a Company (with limited liability of the Shareholders therein) entitled the “Otago Steam Ship Company, (Limited);” the objects for which the said Company is established being “the conveyance of passengers and goods, in ships or boats, between such places as the Company may from time to time determine, and the doing all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.”

And I hereby further notify, that in pursuance of the provisions of the “Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860,” I have issued a Certificate of Incorporation of the said Company, bearing date this Fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

MICHAEL CREAGH,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.
Kenyon & Maddock,
Solicitors for the Company.

(From New Zealand Gazette, April 21, 1863.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 20th April, 1863.

The following Despatch from H. M. Principal Secretary of State, with its Enclosure, is published for general information.

READER WOOD.
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

Downing-street,
22nd January, 1863.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit for your information, and for insertion in the public papers, the accompanying copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 9th instant, for the purpose of allowing the Distilling Apparatus of Mr. Gravely,

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of January, 1863.

Present:—

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by the “Passengers Act, 1855,” it is amongst other things enacted, that before any passenger ship shall be cleared out, the emigration officer at the port of clearance shall satisfy himself that there is on board a sufficient quantity of pure water, carried in tanks or casks, to secure throughout the intended voyage the issue of three quarts daily to each statute adult, for the use of the passengers, exclusive of the quantity required for cooking.

And whereas it is also enacted, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order in Council, to prescribe such rules and regulations as to Her Majesty may seem fit, for permitting the use on board passenger ships of an apparatus for distilling fresh water, and for defining, in such case, the quantity of fresh water to be carried in tanks or casks for the passengers, and such Order in Council from time to time to alter, amend, and revoke, as occasion may require.

And whereas Her Majesty, by Orders in Council, dated respectively the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and the thirteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, prescribed certain rules for permitting the use on board passenger ships propelled by steam engines of a certain power, and on board passenger ships propelled by sails, of a certain apparatus for distilling fresh water from salt water.

And whereas it is expedient to repeal the said Order in Council that relates to passenger ships propelled by sails, and to issue in lieu thereof the Order hereinafter contained.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty doth, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and in exercise of the authority vested in her by the said “Passengers Act, 1855,” hereby repeal the said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and order as follows:

Any passenger ship propelled by sails only, or by steam engines of less power...