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It is also questionable whether it is not an Act affecting Waste Lands of the Crown, inasmuch as the pre-emptive claims relate to alleged purchases, which, if admitted, would go in derogation of the Crown title.

On these considerations, and considering also that a Committee of the House of Representatives is sitting to enquire into these claims, and that a measure on the subject is likely to be passed in the present Session of the General Assembly, his Excellency has deemed it advisable to disallow that Act, and a Proclamation will accordingly be issued to that effect.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
June 20th, 1856.

THE following letter and Notices appeared in the “General Government Gazette” of the 20th instant, and are re-published for general information.

J. LOGAN CAMPBELL,
Superintendent.

Kaipara, June 10th, 1856.

Sir,—Having succeeded in laying down both the buoys, with only the loss of the Globe Beacon of the outer one, I have the honor to enclose a Notice to Ship Masters for publication in the Provincial Gazette, and Newspapers, of their positions, and bearings of the best known land marks from them. I have turned the loss of the Globe Beacon to account for the purpose of distinguishing the respective buoys, in thick weather, when the land bearings cannot be had.

I have, &c.
(Signed) J. J. STANAWAY,
His Honor the Superintendent, Auckland.

NOTICE TO MASTERS OF VESSELS FREQUENTING THE PORT OF KAIPARA.

THE positions of and bearings from the two large buoys, laid down on the 5th instant in the main channel entrance to this harbour are:—

The buoy on the inner point of the outer spit to the northward of the main channel, may be seen in clear weather at a distance of 3 miles from sea; it is painted red, but without a globe beacon at top. The triangular tuft on the South Head, bears by compass from it S.E., and East ¼ East, distant about 5 miles; and the centre green patch on the North Head N.N.E. ¼ E., distant 6 miles. It is laid down in five fathoms water, the width of the channel on the N.E. being about ¾ of a mile. Vessels should pass on the north-east side if possible, but if obliged to do so on the south-west, not further than half a ship’s length from the buoy. The Tory shoal buoy is visible on rounding the outer buoy at a distance of two miles, to which the course given in Captain Drury’s directions will lead; it is in 7 fathoms and should be rounded only on the south-west side where the fairway is at least a mile in width. From this buoy the bearing by compass of the triangular tuft on the South Head is S.E. ½ E, and of the centre green patch on the North Head N.E. by E. This buoy is also red, but with a globe beacon on the top.

(Signed) J. J. STANAWAY,
Pilot.

Kaipara, June 10th, 1856.

Section 53 of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

LIII. If any registered Ship is either actually or constructively lost, taken by the enemy, burnt, or broken up, or if by reason of a transfer to any persons not qualified to be owners of British ships, or of any other matter or thing, any such ship as aforesaid ceases to be a British ship, every person who at the time of the occurrence of any of the aforesaid events owns such ship or any share therein, shall immediately upon obtaining knowledge of any such occurrence, if no notice thereof has already been given in the Registrar of the Port of Registry of such ship, give such notice to him, and he shall make an entry thereof in his Register Book; and except in cases where the certificate of Registry is lost or destroyed, the masters of every ship so circumstanced as aforesaid shall immediately, if such event occurs in Port, but if the same occurs elsewhere, then within ten days after his arrival in Port, deliver the certificate of Registry of such ship to the Registrar, or, if there be no Registrar, to the British Consular Officer at such Port, and such Registrar if he is not himself the Registrar of her Port of Registry, or such British Consular Officer, shall forthwith forward the certificate delivered to him to the Registrar of the Port of Registry of the ship; and every Owner and Master who, without reasonable cause, makes default in obeying the Provisions of this Section shall for each offence incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By His Honor, John Logan Campbell, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the Regulations issued, on the fourteenth day of May, in the present year, by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, for the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown, within the Province of Auckland, in the said colony, I hereby notify for general information, that so much of the under-mentioned blocks of the said Waste Lands, as have not been already, under the Land Regulations issued on the fifth day of February, in the year last passed, sold or settled, or set apart as Town Lands, Suburban Lands, or Rural Lands, or proclaimed as special occupation land, will be open for sale as Country Lands, at ten shillings an acre, subject to the provisions in that behalf contained in the first-mentioned Regulations, on and after the