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II. Free passages in any vessel shipping immigrants to the Province of Southland, will be given to young females of good character provided they come to Southland under the protection of parents, or of matron friends "on" the voyage.

III. The Surgeon of every ship bringing immigrants to the Province, shall be appointed by the Agent exclusively; and he shall appoint none but such as are properly qualified.

IV. No Agent shall have a beneficial interest in any contract that may be entered into for the conveyance of immigrants to the Province of Southland.

Approved,
J. A. R. MACKENZIE,
Superintendent.

21st September, 1865.

BLUFF HARBOUR AND INVERCARGILL RAILWAY AND EXTENSION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made at the ensuing Session of the General Assembly, for an Act to empower the Superintendent of the Province of Southland to take and purchase compulsorily lands required for the purposes of "The Bluff Harbour and Invercargill Railway Ordinance, 1863," of the Legislature of the said Province; and also the lands required for the extension of the said railway proposed to be near the Abattoir Harbour aforesaid, and the other terminus to be near the Town of Invercargill aforesaid, in such a manner that the whole of the said railway will be within the said Province; and also to empower the said Superintendent to make and maintain certain extensions of the said railway as follows, that is to say:—

A railway leaving the line of the said first-named railway, at a point forty chains north-west from its intersection with the eastern boundary of Section 17, Block VII., Campbelltown District, and thence along shore to a point opposite the north-western corner of Block No. 5, Campbelltown, and thence to depot opposite the north-east corner of Block No. 5, Campbelltown, and thence along the beach to the lagoon thence to the plan of Campbelltown as Palmer’s Boundary, all within the said Province.

And a railway leaving the said first-named railway at a point twenty chains south of the southern Town Belt, and thence down Annan-street, and thence into or near Crinan-street, Esk-street, Tweed street, and Findhorn-street, into, through, or over the reserve distinguished on the Town Plan as the Public Esplanade, to the terminus thereof at the site of the proposed goods station in that reserve, at the back of the Government Buildings in Dee-street, all within the said Town of Invercargill, in the said Province.

And powers will be sought to be conferred upon the said Superintendent by the said Bill, to take and purchase compulsorily lands for the said Extension Railways, or within the limits of deviation thereof, and to enable him and his successors in office to hold the same and the other lands so proposed to be taken as aforesaid; and to manage the said railways and works thereto appurtenant; and to sue and be sued in relation thereto, and to levy tolls, rates, and duties; and to confer, vary, and extinguish exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties; and to confer, vary, and extinguish other rights and privileges, and to make by-laws, and to do all other things necessary for the making, maintenance, and working of the said railways and works.

And notice is hereby further given, that copies of the said Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office within fourteen days after the commencement of the said session; and that plans, sections, and books of reference thereto will be deposited at the same time and place following, that is to say:

In the office of the Registrar of Deeds in Invercargill aforesaid, on the 23rd day of August instant.
In the office of the Colonial Secretary on or before the commencement of the said session.
In the Private Bill Office on or before the commencement of the said session.

Dated this twenty-fifth of August, 1863.

J. A. R. MACKENZIE,
Superintendent.

I HEREBY certify that WILLIAM HESKER ROSSINGTON, of Campbelltown, in the Province of Southland, has this day, as provided for in an Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of New Munster, Session I., No. 2, of 1849, entitled, "An Ordinance to define the qualifications and to provide for the examination of persons in certain cases of Medical Practicalness," submitted for my examination a Certificate granted by the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries’ Company of London, admitting him to be a Licentiate of the said Company.

Dated at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Campbelltown, this nineteenth day of September, 1863.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Resident Magistrate.

Printed for the Provincial Government by SMALLFIELD & BAIN, Invercargill, Southland, N.Z.