NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 250, 14 November 1872, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Depositors in the Savings Banks of the .Colony are aware that they enjoy the privilege; under .the regulations of the Act, of transferring their accounts from one Province fco another wfthoujb charge. Agents of performing companies, with a keen eye to business, were not long in discovering the existence of jthis regulation, under which they were enabled jto transfer their capital from one 00' d flf tfte polony— Auckland or the Bluff as the oa.se might Tbe— to the other, with the "takings" in each Province added, free from risk, and also free from any rate of exchange. Whether this be the reason for the alteration, we do not of course say, but it is notified in a General Government Gazette issued on the 31st ult., that on and after the Ist of November the following regulation will be in force : - " It shall not be lawful for any depositor to transfer the balance ©f his deposits from one Province or postal district to another, unless the account in respect of which such balance shall be payable has been open three months in the Province or postal district from which the depositor may require it to be transferred. The following letter, addressed to the Agent-General in London by the official liquidators of the European Assurance Society, is published for general information :•— " Mr, —Having reasons to believe that many claimants under the liquidation of this Society are scattered throughout the different Colonies of Australia and Sew Zealand, we beg to enclose you copies in duplicate of the various notices calling upon parties to send in their claims, which it is desired to insert in the various Government Gazettes, in addition to some of the local newspapers wjth which we intend to communicate direct. We 'think i$ would be a great benefit if, within the scope of your duties, y6u would be so good as to transmit the documents direct to your Government for

insertion in .their Gazette, and request them to call public attention to them in such a way as may insure their attracting the notice of claimants, many of whom, it is feared, are in a humble position in life " Mr W. H. Robiuson has been app >inted Deputy- Registrar of Marriages, &c, for the district of Hamilton. Mr O.K. Haughton, Under-Secretary for Crowa Land and Immigration. Mr H. S. Fiah, jun., Dutiedin, has been appointed, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony ; the resignation, by MrH-ittry Lyon, Kjverton. of a similar appointment, h«s been accepted by the Governor. Mr Wil iam Harper has been aopointed Deputy-Harbor Master of the port of Waikouaiti. Captain Thomson, Mr Colin Allan, and Dr. O'Donoghue, have been appointed to act as Commissioners to inspect and report upon the state and condition of immigrants and imciiiuranfc ships upon their arrival at Port Chalmers.

It is notified for general information, that by "The Stamp Duties Act Amendment x^ct, 1872," the stamp duty payable on cheques, drafts aud receipts is reduced from twopence to one penny, on and from the Ist December, 1572. 1. Persons hoLling adhesive stamps of the value of twopence may, by requisition on the Stamp Office of the Province, or on any Depository of Stamps, exchange the same for an equivalent value of adhesive stamps at one penny, or any other denomination. 2. Persons holding stamps at twopence, impressed on blank forms of cheques, drafts, or receipts, may exchange the same in like manner for adhesive stamps or other denominations. Bub no exchanges of stamps at twopence, impressed on blank forms of cheques or drafts, will be made after the 30th November proximo, except at the reduced value of one penny.