He must be able to give a description of boilers,

and the method of staying them, together with the
use and management of the different valves, cocks,
pipes, and connections.

He must understand how to correct defects from
accidents, decay, &c., and the means of repairing such
defects.

He must understand the use of the barometer,
thermometer, hydrometer, and salinometer.

He must state the causes, effects, and usual remedies
for incrustation and corrosion.

He must be able to state how a temporary or
permanent repair could be effected in case of derangement of any part of the machinery or total break
down.

He must be able to pass a creditable examination
as to the various constructions of screw and paddle
engines in general use; and as to the details of the
different working parts, external and internal, with the
use of each part.

He must be acquainted with the principles of
expansion, and able to prove, or at least to illustrate,
the use of the expansion gear.

He must be able to explain the method of testing
and altering the setting of the slide valves, and of
testing the fairness of the paddle and screw shafts,
and of adjusting them.

He must be generally conversant with surface
condensation and super-heating.

He must be able to calculate safety valve pressures,
and the strength of the boiler, and the strain on the
stays at any pressure.

He must be able to take off and calculate indicator
diagrams.

He must be able to make rough sketches of any part
of the machinery, with figured dimensions fit to work
from.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, April 30, 1867. No. 27)

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Land Registry Act, 1860,"
it is enacted that the Governor shall, from
time to time, as he shall think fit by proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, constitute throughout the
Colony of New Zealand, or in any part thereof, Registrars’
Districts for the purposes of that Act, and such
districts abolish, and the boundaries of any district define
and alter, and also declare by what local name each
such district shall be designated. And whereas by a
proclamation dated the nineteenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, a certain district
was defined and constituted, and was called the District
of Dunedin. And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
said district with a view to the constitution of a new
district, to include the whole of the Province of Otago:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of
the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred on me by the said recited Act, do hereby
abolish the said District of Dunedin, and do hereby
constitute a new district for the purposes of the said
Act, and define the same to be all that portion of the
said Colony of New Zealand known as the Province of
Otago; and I further declare that the district above
defined shall be designated

THE DISTRICT OF OTAGO.

This proclamation shall take effect on and after the first
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Given under the hand of 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, at the Government House,
at Wellington, and issued under the seal of
the said Colony, this twenty-ninth day of
April, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

IN virtue of the powers conferred on me by *"The

Land Registry Act, 1860,"* I do hereby appoint
that registration under the said Act shall commence in
the district of Otago, as the said district is defined in a
proclamation bearing even date herewith, upon the first
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Given under the hand of 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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. GREY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority

in me vested in this behalf, I, Sir George Grey,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
make the following regulation, and do direct that the
same shall be in force within each Gaol of the Colony,
from and after the date of its publication in the New
Zealand Gazette.

Given under the hand of 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, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Each prisoner shall be provided with a Bible and
Prayer Book, approved by the religious denomination
to which the prisoner belongs.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington 27th April, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, Esq.,
to be District Registrar of Land for the District of
Otago, in the Province of Otago.

W. E. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that writs issued for the election
of Members of the Provincial Council of the
Province of Otago, have been returned with certificates to
the effect that

For the District of Manuherikia:
David Forsyth Main;

For the District of Waikouaiti:
Mr. Henry Driver;

For the District of North Harbour:
James Green and Hugh McDermid;

For the District of Green Island and Caversham:
James McIndoe and William Barr;

For the District of Peninsula:
James Seaton;