NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3209, 29 October 1867, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

A General Government Gazette was published on the 21sfc instant, and contained, amongst other notices, the following :—: — James Dv Pre Lance, Esq., John Charles Watts Russell, Feq , William Swaioson, Esq., and John Parkin Ta-lor, Esq., having, for two successive sessions of the General Assembly, without the permiision of her Majesty, or of the Governor, signified by the Governor to the Legislative Council, failed to give their attendance in the said legislative Council, their respective seats in such Council thereby hay* become vacant. Joseph Moliere Tabuteau is appointedEnvgration Officer at the port of Napier, in the provmce of Hawke'a Bay ; Richard Sanderson, of Tauranga, and William Knott. of Opotiki, in the province of Auckland, to be persons to lay informations or prefer indictments un-.'er the Arms Act, 1860 ; Jooepb Giles, Esq., of the Nelson South-west GoldfieMs, to be a Justice of the Peace and Resident Masi-trate ; Richard Somerville, to be lieutenant in No. 6 Company, Auckland Kifle Volunteers— date of commission 27th August, 1867. The following statement by Laughlin OBrien, Esq., Registrar of ths Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Auckland, in account with the real estate of i John Smith, deceased, intesbate, is alio given ;— 1 Dk. £ 8. d. September 12, 1865— T0 cash from Messrs. Roberta and Co., for one year's r^nt of piece of land in Durhamstreet, from this date to the 12ih September, 1866 17 10 0 Cr. October 19, 1865 -By amount paid into Tieisury 17 10 0 Note. — The above account is intended to be in lieu of the one appearing on page 207 of the Gazettes of this year. Recurn* are also publisbed showing the total quantities of goll and of all other metals and minerals, the produce of New Zealand, which have b«>en exp rted in ea h. year from 1853 to 18b'6, inclusive ; ret'irn of the value of impotts at the several ports of New Zealand, Hunng the quarter ended the 3l*t day of Ma oh, 1867: return of the value of exnorts from ihe several p>rt* of New Zealand, during the quarter ended the 31-t day of March, 1867 ; return of the quantity and value of exports from New Zealand for the quirter ended the 3lst March 1867 ; returu of the number, tonnage, and crew* of vessels entered inwanls at the several ports of Ne*v Z -aland during the quarter ended'the 31s!. day of March, 1867 ; re urn of the number, tonnage and crews of vessel* cleared outwards at the several ports *f New Ze^lnifl, during the quarter ended the 31-t ilay of March, 1867; stat j meuc of the average amouut of liabilities and assets of the various banks doing business in New Zealand, during the quarter ended 30ch June, 1867. Another Gazette was published on October 22nd, contained the following important militia general order :—": — " 1. The following corps will be disbanded on the 31st October next, viz. ;— The Ist, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments of Waikato Militia; the Ist and 2nd companies of Forest Rangers; the ten companies of Taranaki military settlers; the Hawke's Bay military settlers; the Patea Rangers; the Wanganui Rangers ; the Wanganui Yeomanry Cavalry. 2. The commissions of all officers of the above corps, who are absent from the colony without leave on the 31-t instant, will lapse, as will also the commissions of these who do not, before the 31st December next, send in to the Defence Office a certificate of their residence within the colony. 3. The names ©f officers who comply with the above order, and who are not appointed to any battalion or company of militia, will be retained on the unattached list of the New Zeilmd militia." Thta foilosung despatch from the Secretary of Stite for the Colonies is published in the New Zealand Gazette for general information, pointing out that foreigners naturalised in New Zealand, who may be desirous of travelling in Europe, »hould, before leaviog the colony, provide themselves with some official evidence of their identity and description :—: — "Downing-street, 25th April, 1867. "Sir, With referencetothe circulardespatch from this department dated the sbh of June, 1866, relative to the caw of foreigners naturalised in any of her Majesty's colonies who wish to obtain British passports for foreign travel, I have the honour to inform you that different cases have occurred lately in which such naturalised foreigners have applied in this country for passport*, without beiDg in possession either of a passport from the Governor or of any official document from the colony to establish their identity and character. You will readily perceive that this is calculated to embarrass this department, and also to cause much private inconvenience to the persons concerned if they should find themselves unable to produce any sufficient evidence of their quality. "I have therefore to suggest that, in every colony containing; naturalised foreigners who are likely to travel in Europe, it would be convenient that notice should from time to time be given, in the public newspapers,- of the necessity for such persons providing themselves before le»»ing the colony with some official evidence of their identity and description. — I have, &c, "Buckingham and Chandos. Sir George Grey, X.C.8., &b."