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Question 7:

— Is there any Fibrous Plant likely to be useful for manufacturing purposes?

Answer: —

Question 8:

— Is there any Vegetable suitable for the food of man, or for forage, or for any other useful purpose?

Answer: —

Question 9:

— Do you know any Quadruped, Bird, Fish, Insect, Tree, or Plant, existing elsewhere, the introduction of which to the Country in which you reside would be likely to be beneficial: one of the objects of the Acclimatisation Society being to reciprocate the benefits which it receives from other countries?

Answer: —

Question 10:

— Does any organization exist, or could it be easily called into existence, capable of undertaking the task of introduction?

Answer: —

Any Remarks founded upon special knowledge or local information, capable of being made useful to the progress of Acclimatisation will be desirable.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 9, March 12, 1864]

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Authorising additional Postal Regulations.

G. GREY,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, on the ninth day of March, 1864.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the “New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,” power is given to the Governor in Council from time to time to make Rules and Regulations for the managing of the several Post Offices within the said Colony, for the receiving, despatching, conveying, and delivering of letters (including the imposition of fees for private boxes and deliveries); for the detaining, opening, and return, or other disposal of irregularly posted, unclaimed, and refused letters, or such as from any cause whatsoever cannot be delivered or forwarded, and the contents thereof respectively, and for the publication of the lists of the same; for the making, custody, and sale of postage labels; for the receiving and paying of money in connection with the said postal service, and for the conduct of post officers; and any such Rules and Regulations at any time in force to alter, vary, or revoke; and for the purpose of giving effect to the Rules and Regulations so to be made, further power is given to the Governor in Council by the said Act to impose any penalty not exceeding ten pounds for any one offence against such Rules and Regulations.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby make the following additional Post Office Regulations, and doth declare that the same shall be in force from and after the ninth day of March, 1864.

Clause 53.

The original clause in the Regulations of the first of April, 1862, is cancelled, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

Should any letter, opened as above provided, be found to contain coin, notes, or other valuable property, such property will not be enclosed on the letter being resealed, but will be kept separate; but if unclaimed for the space of three months, all such coin and notes will be paid into the Colonial Treasury to the credit of a fund to be opened for the purpose, to be called the “Postal Unclaimed Property Fund,” and valuable property of all other descriptions will be transmitted to the Postmaster-General.

Sub-clause 54.

Every letter or packet advertised as unclaimed, which shall be claimed and delivered after such advertisement, shall be chargeable with an extra fee of twopence.

Regulation No. 84.

Late interprovincial letters shall be received at each Post Office until twenty minutes previous to the hour for despatch of the mail, and for each such late letter an additional fee of sixpence over and above the ordinary postage rate shall be paid in postage stamps affixed to the letter.

On all interprovincial letters posted in the receiving boxes on board mail steamers, the above mentioned late letter fee of sixpence over and above the ordinary postage rate shall be paid in postage stamps affixed to the letter, otherwise a double late fee will be chargeable on delivery.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 9, March 12, 1864.]

Enquiries respecting Ann Scanlan.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 10th March, 1864.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting a person named Ann Scanlan, who arrived in this Colony in the year 1852 by the “Duchess of Northumberland,” from Woolwich, any one who can give any information concerning such a person is requested to communicate the same to this office.

William Fox.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 9, March 19th, 1864.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 10th March, 1864.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Government of Colombo, is published for general information.

William Fox.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Light-houses have been erected on Foul Point and Round Island, in the entrance to Trincomalee Harbour. The lights are of the following description, and will be exhibited from sunset to sunrise every night after the 1st of February, 1864:—

Foul Point: — A flash light, showing a brilliant flash every half minute, which is plainly visible 17 miles in clear weather, from a vessel’s deck elevated 18 feet above the sea; a faint light is shown between the flashes which is not visible beyond a distance of 7 miles.

Round Island: — A fixed bright light, which is plainly visible 10 miles in clear weather, from a vessel’s deck elevated 18 feet above the sea; it shows a red light when brought to bear between the points W. by S. ½ S., and S. W. ½ S., which is not visible beyond a distance of 6 or 7 miles. Approaching between these bearings, the bright light is not seen.