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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 820, 22 January 1867, Page 3

A Hard-woriced Official.— What may happen to a man in New Zealand, says the West Coast Times, is beautifully exemplified by the following extract from the Southland News, which is wroth at the removal of the one Custom's clerk from the Bluff to Hokitika, and thus specifies the duties that will consequently devolve on the sub-collector, it being remembered that fifteen steamers arrive and depart monthly, besides sailingcoasters, and vessels from Great Britain and the other colonies : — He will have duties devolving upon him as Emigration Officer, and others under the Customs Regulation Act, the Passengers Act, the Steam Navigation Act, the Oyster Fisheries Act, Marine or Pilots and Ports Act, Arms Act, Merchant Shipping Act, including the conduct of inquiries under the Enquiry into Wrecks Act, prosecutions, &c., and in addition to do the whole indoor work of his office — book-keeping, checking, entries, bonds, manifests, entering and clearing vessels, correspondence, to furnish returns of monies collected for duties, pilotage, light dues, shipping fees, Arms Act fees, &c. He will have besides, the out-door duties of guaging, measuring, weighing, warehousing, checking cargo, examining passengers' luggage, searching diggers and others for gold, searching vessels, checking stores, &c. He will also be required to attend at the bonded store to deliver goods, and to be present at the reshipment of all goods not immediately dispatched to Invercargill or Riverton." Earth Closets. — We (Wellington Independent) direct the attention of the town residents to the fact that the Town Board has issued a notice requiring all cesspools in the rear 'of houses on the beach and other crowded localities to be filled up on and after the ninth of April next, and earth closets to be substituted. Although the order will put householders to some expense, we have no doubt that as it is issued for the purpose of remedying a drying evil, , it will be cheerfully obeyed. Major-General Chute is expected to > arrive in Wellington on the 22nd, and it is s stated in well-informed quarters that he will • then take up his permanent residence here. ■ < — Advertiser, Jan. 18.