INVERCARGILL, BLUFF & WINTON RAILWAY

On and after May 1st, 1873, daily trains will run as under:

• Leave Winton for Invercargill at 8.15 a.m.
• Invercargill for Bluff at 9.45 a.m.
• Bluff for Invercargill at 11.45 a.m.
• Invercargill for Bluff at 2 p.m.
• Invercargill for Winton at 4 p.m.
• Bluff for Invercargill at 4 p.m.

A train will leave Winton on Saturday evenings at 3.15, returning from Invercargill on Monday mornings at 7. There are no trains on Sunday.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 61, October 16, 1873.)

Resignation of a Trustee, Dunedin Savings Bank, accepted.

Treasury,
Wellington, 14th October, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

LATHAM O. BEAL, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Trustee of the Dunedin Savings Bank.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Inquiry for Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1873.

INQUIRIES having been made for a missing person named Cayenish Henry Banks, formerly a Constable in the Armed Constabulary, from which he was discharged in May, 1871, any one who can give any information respecting him is requested to communicate with this office.

(By command)
G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

Immigration Regulations.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of October, 1873.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

SCHEDULE.

Regulations for the conduct of Immigration to New Zealand, on the Nomination of Immigrants by Persons resident therein.

1. Any person resident in the Colony, desirous of nominating relatives or friends in Europe for passages to New Zealand, may do so by applying to an Immigration Officer, in the form in foot, copies of which can be obtained at all Immigration and Post Offices.

   The persons nominated, if approved by the Immigration Officer and the officers of the Home Agency, will receive free passages to the Colony.

2. Every adult emigrant will be required, before embarkation, to pay, unless specially permitted by the Agent-General, 20s (and children in proportion), for bedding, blankets, and mess utensils.

3. The cost of conveyance to the port (unless the Agent-General agrees to pay it), and to the residence of their friends after arrival in the Colony, must be defrayed by the emigrants themselves.

4. All the ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of the Passenger Act.

5. It is to be distinctly understood, that notwithstanding the applications are forwarded to the Agent-General by the Immigration Officers, the Agent-General in London may refuse passages where the intending emigrants are in ill-health, or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to emigrate.

6. The Regulations issued upon 21st April, 1873, for the payment of bonuses to the nominators upon the arrival of the nominated immigrants, are hereby rescinded; and no certificates for the payment of such bonuses will be given after the date hereof.

To the IMMIGRATION OFFICER.

I have the honor to state that, in my opinion, the persons named below would be not unwilling to emigrate to New Zealand, and would be desirable colonists.

I have, therefore, to advise that such persons should be communicated with, and invited to emigrate to the Colony.

I have, &c.,

JULIUS VOGEL.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 62, October 17, 1873.)

Stamp Duty to be paid by Persons entering into the employment of the General Government and Provincial Governments and Corporations.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamps,
Wellington, 8th October, 1873.

THE Commissioner of Stamps desires to point out to Heads of Departments in the General and Provincial Governments, and also in Municipal Corporations, that by section 12 of “The Stamp Duties Act Amendment Act 1871,” it is provided that every person, before he shall enter on the duties of his office or employment, is required to pay the proper duty in respect thereof to the Commissioner; and no Warrant or Letter of Appointment shall be issued or granted by the Responsible Officer of the Department to which such office shall be attached, or within whose control the same may be, until he has satisfied himself of the payment of such duty.

The Commissioner having been informed of certain cases in which officers have been promoted from one branch of the Service to another without proper Letters or Warrants of Appointment, and also of cases where Letters of Appointment had been issued without previous payment of the Stamp Duty, would draw attention to the circumstance that the appointees may thereby become liable to the penalties in the Statute for unstamped documents.

Heads of Departments are also informed that while no Stamp Duty is exigible on ordinary additions or increases to salaries, in every case where promotion takes place, duty is chargeable on any augmentation to salary.

By order of the Commissioner,
E. BRANDON.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., of Stafford street, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.