Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 1 June 1892, Page 88

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1892, pages 769, 721, 735, 738 and 746. ) Prescribing a Close Season for Seals.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of May, 1892. Present:

His Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council. WHEREAS by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884 ” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations (which shall have force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein) for prescribing, among other things, a close season or close seasons for seals :

And whereas it is provided by the third section of “ The Fisheries Conservation Act 1884 Amendment Act, 1887,” that a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds may be imposed in respect of the breach of any regulations respecting seals, and a further penalty of not exceeding twenty pounds for every seal illegally taken : And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth with respect to seals inhabiting or found within the waters of the colony hereinafter mentioned: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colon}' of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act and “ The Fisheries Conservation Act 1884 Amendment Act, 1887,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth order that such regulations shall have force and effect throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the colony, and on all shores of such waters or any part thereof.

SCHEDULE Regulations.

1. The months of June, July, August, September, October, November, and December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, are hereby prescribed as a close season for seals. 2. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, or have in possession any seal, or the skins, oil, or blubber of any seal, taken during the close season hereby prescribed for the same.

3. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding five hundred pounds, and a further penalty of not exceeding twenty pounds for every seal illegally taken. 4. Every penalty imposed by these regulations shall be recovered in a summary manner before any two or more Justices of the Peace. Alex. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Licensing Committee and Clerk appointed

Department of Justice, Wellington, 17th May, 1802. T TIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government 1 1 has been pleased to appoint Thomas Jackson, Esq., R.M., John Howe Mandeno, Esq., J.P., and James Waeton, Esq., J.P., to he the Licensing Committee for the Speci.al Licensing District of Kawhia; and also to appoint

Constable William Jones to be Clerk of the said Committee.

W. P. REEVES

Black Swans to be considered as Native Game

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the imported birds known as black swans (Cygnus atratus) are established in the Wellington Acclimatisation District, created under the aforesaid Act, and are to be considered as native game. And Ido also declare that this notification shall take effect from and after the date thereof As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninetytwo.

P. A. BUCKLEY

Fixing Sittings of the District Court at Naseby.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District Court of Timaru and Oamaru, for civil and criminal business, shall be held as follows

Timaru and Oamaru District

In the Courthouse, Nasoby, for civil and criminal business, on the 30th June and 3rd November, 1892.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the Court appointed for that day shall be holden on the first day thereafter not being a holiday.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninetytwo.

W. P. REEVES

Sittings of the Supreme Court, Dunedin Judicial District

WE, five Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in us by “ The Supreme Court Act, 1882,” hereby appoint a sitting for the trial of criminal cases to be held at the Supreme Courthouse, Dunedin, on Monday, the 29th day of August, 1892, at 10 a.m.

Given under our hands, at Wellington, this twentieth da)’ of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JAMES PRENDERGAST. C. W. RICHMOND. JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS. J. E. DENNISTON. Edw. T. CONOLLY. N.B. —This sitting is appointed in substitution for the sitting before appointed for the sth September.