TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, December 27, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following person to be Superintendent Collector under "The Census Acts Amendment Act, 1867":—

Charles D. Whitcombe, Esq.,
Province of Taranaki.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, December 21, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned promotions and appointments, namely:—

In the New Zealand Militia.
Lieutenant Henry Brown to be Captain.
Date of commission, 9th December, 1871.

Lieutenant Matthew Jones to be Captain.
Date of commission, 9th December, 1871.

Ensign Matthew Carrick to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 9th December, 1871.

Ensign John Richard Lawson to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 9th December, 1871.

Donald McLean.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor may, at the request of the Superintendent of any Province, from time to time make regulations (as therein mentioned) for the conduct of immigration under the said Act into such Province, and for the nomination of Immigrants by persons resident therein, and for the distribution of funds provided by the said Act for immigration purposes, and for the introduction into and settlement in such Province of Immigrants, and for selling as special settlements for any such Immigrants any lands which he may acquire from any Province under the provisions therein contained, or any lands acquired under "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," or the Acts amending the same, and for laying out and allotting any lands so acquired amongst any such Immigrants: And whereas by "The Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," it is, amongst other things, enacted that so much of the thirty-ninth and forty-first sections of the said Act as provide that any acts, matters, or things are to or may be done by the Governor at the request of the Superintendent of a Province, is thereby repealed: and it is hereby enacted that the Governor may exercise all the powers, and do and perform all the acts, matters and things in the said sections mentioned, without any request from any Superintendent of any Province or any other person or authority:

And whereas, in pursuance of the power and authority contained in the said first-mentioned Act, the Governor, at the request of certain Superintendents of Provinces, did make certain regulations for the introduction of Immigrants from Europe into those Provinces respectively, on the nomination of persons resident therein: And whereas it hath been determined to make other regulations in lieu of those so made as aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the hereinbefore in part-recited Acts, and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the introduction of Immigrants from Europe into the Colony of New Zealand, on the nomination of persons resident therein.

SCHEDULE.

1. Each applicant will be required to pay, at the time of making the application, the sum of £5 for each adult (except single women) and £2 10s. for each child between the ages of one and twelve years, whom it is desired to have introduced into the Colony. Infants in arms, under one year, free. This rate being only for the ship passage from London (or such other port as the ship may sail from) to the Colony, the cost of reaching such port of sailing in Europe and proceeding up the country to their friends after arrival in the Colony, will have to be defrayed by the Emigrants themselves.

2. Free passages will be granted to single women between the ages of 12 and 35, provided they are able to produce proof of good character to the satisfaction of the Agent-General in London.

3. In the event of any Emigrants applied for declining to emigrate, whether money may have been deposited with the Government will be returned to the applicants so soon as the Agent-General in England shall have apprised the Governor thereof; but in the event of any Emigrants applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and so, by failing to present themselves for embarkation at the time and port appointed