Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XI, Issue 23, 9 November 1887, Page 225

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette 1887, pages 1329, 1367, 1369, and 1371.) Licensing Districts altered.

(L.s.) Wii, P. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by the sixth section of “ The Licensing Act, 1881,” it is enacted that the Governor shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the commencement of the said Act, by Proclamation in the Gazette, from time to time define districts to be licensing districts under the said Act, and from time to time may alter and redefine the boundaries of the same : And whereas it is expedient to alter and redefine the boundaries of the Districts of Carterton and Carterton Town:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, alter and redefine the boundaries of the said districts, which shall henceforth be those described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE. Wairarapa South County

Carterton Licensing District. —All that area in the County of Wairarapa South known as the Ridings of Carterton and Gladstone, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of the Ist February, 1883, exclusive of the Carterton Town Licensing District hereinafter described. Carterton Town Licensing District. —All that area known as the Borough of Carterton, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 3G, of the 16tli June, 1887. Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Cliief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. Thos. FERGUS. God save the Queen!

Regulations for Trout-fishing, Hawera and Patea Counties.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of October, 1887. Present: llis Excellency the Governor in Council. XN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,” and “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the Counties of Hawera and Patea, and in the waters thereof; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations at variance therewith.

Regulations. 1. Licenses to fish for trout in all the waters within the Counties of Hawera and Patea will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society, and for every such license a fee of ten shillings will be charged : Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the society to issue a license. 2. Every such licenso shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the fourteenth day of October in each year to the eleventh day of April in the following year inclusive, between the hours of four a.m. and ten p.m. only, but no such license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent. 3. No person shall fish for, take, catch, or kill, or have in his possession, or attempt to fish for, take, catch, or kill, in any manner whatever, any of the salmonidse or trout, except during the above-mentioned period. 4. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish with one rod and line only, and with the following baits: Natural or artificial fly, natural or artificial

minnow, silveries, bullies, grasshoppers, spiders, caterpillars, creepers, a,nd worms. 5. No person shall use any other bait, or any method, device, or contrivance of any sort or kind whatever, for the purpose of fishing for, taking, catching, or killing trout, except a rod and line, and a landing net, or gaff, for fish taken with rod and line.

6. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout, nor shall any of the baits above mentioned be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

7. No person shall fish without a license, and every person fishing shall, on demand of any ranger, constable, member of the said society, or person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, member, constable, or person his license and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout. 8. Every trout not exceeding nine inches in length from nose to tip of tail, taken or caught by any person, shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

9. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, in any of the said waters, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or anything of kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

10. No person shall take, fish for, catch, or kill, in any manner whatever, or have in his possession, any salmon, salmon-parr, or smolts, or the ova, young, or fry of any salmon in any stage whatever; and any of the above-named taken by accident shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken.

11. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, within the counties to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidpe or trout, or take, fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidae or trout in order to make sale of the same, without permission in writing under the hand of the Secretary of the said society. 12. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidse or trout between the twelfth day of April and the fourteenth day of October in each year, which period is appointed a close season for all such fish. 13. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be less than forty shillings or more than fifty pounds.

14. These regulations shall come into force as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette. J. W. FORTESCUE, (For Clerk of the Executive Council)

Land temporarily reserved.

THE following land has been temporarily reserved from sale, and set apart for police purposes: — All that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 2 roods, more or less, and being called or known as Allotment No. 69 of the Village of Aratapu, Tokatoka Survey District, Provincial District of Auckland. Bounded towards the North-east by Allotment No. 70, 200 links ; towards the South-east by a road-line, 250 links; towards the South-west by a road-line, 200 links; and towards the North-west by Allotment No. 72, 250 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. All that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 2 acres, more or less, and being called or known as Allotments Nos. 88 and 89 of the Village of Aratapu, Tokatoka Survey District, Provincial District of Auckland. Bounded towards the North-east by a road-line, 401 links; towards the South-east by a road-line, 500 links; towards the Southwest by a road-line, 399 links; and towards the North-west by Allotment No. 87, 500 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Despatch. Greece.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 24th October, 1887. mHE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s JL Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information. T. W. HISLOP.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 30th July, 1887. Sir, — I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council, extending the provisions of “ The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” to Greece. I have, &e., H. T. Holland. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the twelfth day of July, 1887. Present: The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by “The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” it is provided that, whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchantships in the territories of any foreign power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council stating that such facilities are or will bo given, declare that seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant-ships belonging to a subject of such power, when within Her Majesty’s dominions, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such order, and may render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed expedient: And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant-ships in the dominions and possessions of Her Majesty the King of the Hellenes :

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by the said “ Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that, from and after the publication hereof in the London Gazette, seamen, not being slaves, and not being British subjects, who, within Her Majesty’s dominions, desert from merchant-ships belonging to subjects of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships : Provided always that, if any such deserter has committed any crime in Her Majesty’s dominions, he may be detained till he he has been tried bj' a competent Court, and until his sentence, if anjq has been carried into effect.

And the Secretaiy of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Secretary of State for India in Council, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. C. L. Peel.