[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, January 18.]

QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY THE MASTER OF EVERY VESSEL ARRIVING IN NEW ZEALAND.

2. What is the Master’s name, and are you the Master?
   Answer.

3. From whence do you come, and when did you sail?
   Answer.

4. At what port have you touched on your passage?
   Answer.

5. What vessel have you had intercourse or communication with on your passage, and from whence did they come?
   Answer.

6. Have you any, and what Bills of Health?
   Answer.

7. Did the Cholera, or any other highly infectious and dangerous disease prevail at the place from which you sailed, or at any of the places at which you have touched, or on board of any vessel with which you have had communication? If yes, state when and where.
   Answer.

8. In the course of your voyage have any persons on board suffered from sickness of any kind, what was the nature of such sickness, and when did it prevail; how many persons were affected by it, and have any of them died during the voyage?
   Answer.

9. What number of officers, mariners, and passengers have you on board?
   Answer.

10. What was the number of persons on board your vessel when you sailed?
    Answer.

11. What is the whole number of persons now ill on board your vessel?
    Answer.

12. If there be no sickness now on board when did the last attack of disease appear, and when did it entirely disappear?
    Answer.

LETTERS PATENT.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 15th January, 1864.

THE following Act, passed by the Imperial Parliament, intituled “An Act to determine the time at which Letters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies,” is published for general information.

W. Fox.

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO AND VICESIMO SEPTIMO.

VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. LXXVI.

An Act to determine the Time at which Letters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies.

[28th July, 1863.]

WHEREAS Her Majesty hath from time to time caused to be made under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland divers Letters Patent intended to take effect within Her Majesty’s Colonies and Possessions beyond the seas: And whereas doubts are entertained respecting the period at which such Letters Patent have taken or may hereafter take effect within such Colonies and Possessions, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed: Be it therefore 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 assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. No such Letters Patent heretofore made shall (unless otherwise provided therein or by other lawful authority) be deemed to have taken or shall take effect in any such Colony or Possession as aforesaid until the same were or shall be publicly made known or acted upon therein: Provided that any act or thing heretofore done or purporting to have been done in pursuance or under authority of such Letters Patent shall be as valid and effectual as if the same Letters Patent had taken effect at the date of the making thereof.

2. No such Letters Patent hereafter to be made shall (unless otherwise provided therein or by other lawful authority) take effect in any such Colony or Possession until the making of the same shall have been signified therein by Proclamation or other public notice.

3. Any such Letters Patent by which any person may be hereafter appointed to any office or employment within any of such Colonies or Possessions shall (unless otherwise provided therein or by other lawful authority) become null and void in respect of such Colony, unless the same shall be so signified as aforesaid within the following period; that is to say, within Nine Calendar Months in case such Colony or Possession shall be to the eastward of Buona Esperanza in the East Indies, or to the west of Cape Horn in South America, or in any other case within six months after the making thereof.

4. The Act, chapter ninety-one, of the ninth and tenth years of Her Majesty, intituled “An Act to continue certain Patent Commissions until the Exhibition of the Commissions revoking them,” is hereby repealed.

5. This Act shall take effect in each of Her Majesty’s Colonies and Possessions so soon as the same shall be proclaimed therein by the Officer administering the Government thereof.

NOTICE is hereby given that ALEXANDER CUMMING, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, and Colony of New Zealand, merchant, trading there under the style or firm of Alexander Cuming and Co., has by Indenture of Conveyance and Assignment, bearing date the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and made between the said ALEXANDER CUMMING of the first part, JAMES RATTRAY EDWARD BOWES CARGILL, and WOOLF HARRIS, all of Dunedin aforesaid, merchants, of the second part, and the several other persons whose names and seals are thereunto subscribed and set, and who are also respectively named in the first schedule thereunder written, and being severally creditors in their own right or in co-partnership, or being agents or attorneys of creditors of the said Alexander Cumming of the third part, conveyed and assigned all his real and personal estate and effects unto the said James Rattray, Edward Bowes Cargill, and Woolf Harris, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, in trust for all the creditors of the said Alexander Cumming. And Notice is hereby further given that the said Deed now lies for signature by and on behalf of the creditors of the said Alexander Cumming, at the offices of Messieurs Prendergast, Kenyon, and Maddock, in Manse street, Dunedin aforesaid, solicitors.

Dated this twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

PRENDERGAST, KENYON, & MADDOCK,
Solicitors for the Trustees.

THE DUNEDIN GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY.

AN Extraordinary General MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company’s Offices, Rattray street, Dunedin, on Monday, the 14th day of March next, at the hour of Two o’clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, namely:—

To receive the report of the Directors of the working of the Company; to order thereupon and to consider and determine upon any matter of business connected with the Company that may be submitted by the Directors.

JNO. CARGILL, Chairman.
MARTIN SHOLL, Secretary.

February, 1864.

Printed for the Provincial Government by Harnett and Co., Manse Street, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.