TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

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At the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The sth day of August, 1871. By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council. Present:—Lord President, Mr. Goschcn, Mr. Forster. Whereas pursuant to an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter seventy-eight, and of " The Sanitary Act, ISG6," and of " The Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867," and of every other power in them vested, the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council did, on the twenty-ninth day of July now last past, and on the third of this instant August, make and publish certain Orders : And whereas it has seemed expedient to their Lordships, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the said Acts or otherwise in them vested, to make a further Order touching the disease in the said recited Orders mentioned: Now, therefore, the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council do, by virtue of the aforesaid powers, order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows : — 1. No master of any ship in which, during the voyage and before the arrival thereof at any port of the United Kingdom, any person has been attacked with or died of cholera, shall bring his ship into any such port until he has destroyed the clothing and bedding of all persons who shall have so died or had an attack of cholera on board such vessel during such voyage. 2. In this Order the term " ship " includes vessel or boat; the term " master " includes the officer or person for the time being in charge or command of a ship; the term " cholera" includes choleraic diarrhoea. 3. The terms " clothing and bedding " mean and include all clothing and bedding in actual use and worn or used by the person attacked as aforesaid at the time of and during such attack. 4. Every person offending against this Order shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 5. The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Edmund Habeison.

No. 92. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl of Kimberlevt to Governor Sir G. P. Bowen, G.C.M.G. (Circular.) Sir, — Downing Street, 25th August, 1871. Referring to my predecessor's Circular Despatch of the 27th June, 1870, on the subject of offering rewards for the apprehension of Deserters from the Royal Navy, I have the honor to inform you that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have intimated to me that they have no objection to the carrying out of a recommendation which has been made by the Governor of Tasmania: namely, that the Governors of the respective Australian Colonies may apply any penalties that may be recovered under the 25th section of the Naval Discipline Act, in such a manner as may seem best calculated to bring to justice those who render themselves liable to prosecution under its provisions. I have, &c, The Officer Administering the Government KIMBERLEY. of New Zealand.

No. 93. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl of Kimberley to Governor Sir G. P. Bowen, G.C.M.G. (Circular.) Sir, — • Downing Street, 26th August, 1871. I transmit to you for general information a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, enclosing Memoranda on the subject of the representation of Jewellery and Paper in the proposed International Exhibition of 1872, and I have to request that you will afford Her Majesty's Commissioners such assistance as may be in your power in procuring collections of Peasant Jewellery and Paper of local manufacture in the Colony under your government. I have, &c, The Officer Administering the Government KIMBERLEY. of New Zealand. 16