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apply (§ 7) to a Resident Magistrate, or two Justices to hear any case in reference to the wreck of any vessel shall make such application in writing, stating therein the particulars of the case in respect of which such investigation is required.

2. The Customs’ Officer or other person authorised shall before the commencement of the investigation furnish a copy of such application to each of the Master, Mate and Engineer of the wrecked vessel.

3. The Customs’ Officer, or other authorised person shall superintend the management of the case at the investigation (§ 9).

4. Should the Court be of opinion that any person connected with the wreck should be prosecuted criminally, the Customs’ Officer, or other authorised person should lay an information and prosecute in the usual way.

Duties of Magistrates.

1. Having taken evidence, the Magistrate or Justices, shall in all cases prepare a report to the Governor containing a full statement (1) of the case, and (2) of their opinion thereon such report, (3) to be signed by the Magistrate or Justices, and (4) by the Nautical Assessor if there be one and he concurs, (5) and to be forwarded to the Governor through the Postmaster-General, (6) together with the whole or such extracts from the evidence as the Court shall think necessary (§ 9 and 10). Should the Nautical Assessor not concur in the report, he should forward his dissent and reasons therefore, to the Governor (§ 10).

2. The Court has power, provisional on the Governor’s confirmation, to cancel or suspend the certificate of any Master, Mate or Engineer, and in any case in which it may be considered proper so to cancel or suspend a certificate the Court should,—

3. Take care that a Nautical Assessor, sits with the Court.

4. Call on such Master, Mate or Engineer, to deliver up his certificate which under § 24 of the “Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862,” he is bound to do.

5. State in open Court their decision, provisional on Governor’s confirmation, in-respect to cancelling or suspending the certificate. (Merchant Shipping Act, 1862, § 23 par 3.)

6. State, in their report to the Governor, the fact of a copy of the statement of the case upon which the investigation was ordered having been furnished to the owner of the certificate before the commencement of the investigation. (Merchant Shipping Act, 1862, § 23, par. 6.)

7. See that the Assessor concurs in the report and signs it as so concurring. (Ibid.)

8. Transmit the report with the whole evidence taken and the cancelled or suspended certificate to the Governor through the Postmaster-General for confirmation and transmission to the Board of Trade. (Ibid, par. 3.)

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 15th September, 1864.

The following communication is published for general information.

J. A. R. Menzies,
Superintendent.

"Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
26th August, 1864.

SIR,
I have to inform your Honor that the Royal assent has been given to the Reserved Bill of the General Assembly, entitled the ‘Southland Waste Lands Act, 1863.’

This Act will not come into force until His Excellency the Governor proclaims it as having received Her Majesty’s assent, and in order to avoid the inconvenience of a change in the Southland Land Regulations before the local authorities are aware of it, that proclamation will not be made until the 26th of September next, on which day it will appear in the New Zealand Gazette.

I have to request your Honor to be good enough to give every publicity to this communication.

I have, &c., &c.,
WILLIAM FOX."

His Honor the Superintendent,
Invercargill.

Printed for the Provincial Government by Harrett & Co., Dee-street, Invercargill.