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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 50, 1 March 1867, Page 3

A General Government Gazette published on Friday contains regulations for carrying out the provisions of the Stamp Duties Act. Registrars of deeds are appointed stamp officers of the various Provinces, and at their offices adhesive or impressed stamps can be obtained. Their offices are to be kept open from 10 to 3 every working day, except Saturday, ■when they close at 1 o'clock. Postmasters aud subpostmasters are appointed licensed distributors of stamps. The distinction between the deeds on which the stamps must be affixed and those where adhesive stamps may be used is pointed out. (This we have before given). A commission of 2\ per cent, is allowed to licensed distributors for purchases of £2 and upwards and to the other persons for purchases of £10 and upwards. Regulations for allowance for spoiled stamps, forms of application for stamps, and other regulations foxspecial cases follow which we cannot now detail. Great inconvenience and loss (says the Wellington Evening Post,) has been inflicted on the public of Wellington and Hawke's Bay by a total interruption to all communication for some two or three weeks between Napier aud other parts of the colony, at least the southern portions of it, caused by the Phoebe not landing or bringing mails from Hawke's Bay on her last trip; moreover, his Honor Mr. Justice Johnston is kept a prisoner at Napier until the 3rd or 4th March.