the Chambers of Commerce at the different ports:

1st. The Vocabulary of the Commercial Code of Signals, as well as the list of French and Foreign vessels, and their official numbers in the Commercial Code of Signals;

2nd. List of French Semaphores.

Specimens will also be sent to the Chambers of Commerce:-

1st. Of the Universal Series of Flags contained in the Commercial Code of Signals.

2nd. Of the Black Balls used in signalling at a great distance.

Art. 5. The details of the telegraphic transmission of commercial despatches received from vessels, or transmitted by the semaphores, will be regulated by ulterior arrangements concerted by our Ministers, Secretaries of the State of the Interior, and of the Marine.

Art. 6. An order of our Minister, the Secretary of State, shall determine the day from the date of which the Commercial Code of Signals shall be exclusively employed.

Art. 7. All rules contrary to the present decree are and remain abrogated.

Tuileries, June 25th, 1864.

PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.

Members of Provincial Council Elected.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 16th Dec., 1864.

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

For the District of Longwood—Edmund Gillow, Esq.

For the District of Riverton—Messrs. Samuel Hodgkinson, and John Crerar.

For the District of Aparima—Messrs. John Howell, and William Hugh Nurse.

For the District of Waianawa—James Francis Collins, Esq.

For the District of Waiau—Robert Ferguson Cuthbertson, Esq.

For the District of Oreti—Peter McKellar, Esq.

For the District of Oteramika—Matthew Holmes, Esq.

For the District of Waikwi—William Stuart, Esq.

For the District of Campbelltown—Alexander McNab, Esq.

For the District of Invercargill—Messrs. James Alexander Robertson Menzies, Thomas Morell Macdonald, William Henderson Calder, and James Richard Davies.

For the District of Roslin—Messrs. William Johnston, and Thomas Swale.

For the District of Waihopai—Messrs. Jabez Hay, and James Wilson.

For the District of New River—Harry Armstrong, Esq.

have been duly elected.

FRED. A. WELD.

Instructions respecting the Treatment of the Apparently Drowned.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 5th December, 1864.

THE following instructions respecting the Treatment of the apparently drowned, received from the Royal National Life Boat Association, are published for general information.

FRED. A. WELD.

DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.

The leading principles of the following directions for the restoration of the apparently dead from drowning, are founded on those of the late Dr. Marshall Hall, combined with those of Dr. H. R. Silvester, and are the result of extensive inquiries which were made by the Institution in 1863-4 amongst medical men, medical bodies, and coroners throughout the United Kingdom. These directions have been extensively circulated by the Institution throughout the United Kingdom, and in the Colonies. They are also in use in Her Majesty’s fleet, and in the Coast-guard Service.

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Send immediately for medical assistance, blankets, and dry clothing, but proceed to treat the patient instantly on the spot, in the open air, with the face downwards, whether on shore or afloat; exposing the face, neck, and chest to the wind, except in severe weather, and removing all tight clothing from the neck and chest, especially the braces.

The points to be aimed at are—first and immediately, the restoration of breathing; and secondly, after breathing is re-