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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
HENRY ADAMS, Solicitor of the Province.
VOL. II. NELSON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1854. No. 15.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor EDWARD WILLIAM STAFFORD, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand.
WHEREAS, by a Proclamation in the Government Gazette, dated the fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, it was appointed that the Provincial Council should meet for the despatch of business, at Nelson, on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of November instant: AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said Council should be prorogued until Thursday, the 23d November instant: NOW THEREFORE I, the Superintendent of Nelson, in virtue of the powers and authority vested in me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have this day prorogued the Provincial Council until Thursday, the Twenty-third day of November instant, at twelve o'clock at noon.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province, at Nelson, this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
E. W. STAFFORD,
Superintendent.
By his Honor's command,
HENRY ADAMS, Prov. Sol.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
November 7, 1854.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that the undermentioned portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown, within the Province of Nelson, as herein-after described, has been RESERVED for the purposes of a Quarantine Ground, viz.:—
The island situate at the south end of Blind Bay, known as "Rabbit Island," bounded on the north by the coast line, and on the east, south, and west by the eastern and western mouths of the river Waimea; containing about 2,600 acres.
By his Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Clerk in Superintendent's Office.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
November 7, 1854.
HIS Honor the Superintendent acknowledges the receipt, for transmission to England, of the undermentioned Sums, collected in aid of the Wives and Families of the British Forces engaged in the Russian War, viz.:—
£ s. d.
From the Rev. H. F. Butt, Church of England clergyman . . . 32 14 0
From the Rev. A. M. Garin, Roman Catholic clergyman . . . 9 10 0
Total . . . £42 4 0
By his Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Clerk in Superintendent's Office.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1854, No 15
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🏛️ Proclamation proroguing the Provincial Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 November 1854
Proclamation, Provincial Council, Nelson, Prorogation
- Edward William Stafford (Esquire), Superintendent of the Province of Nelson
- Edward William Stafford, Superintendent
- Henry Adams, Provincial Solicitor
🗺️ Reservation of Rabbit Island as a Quarantine Ground
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey7 November 1854
Rabbit Island, Quarantine Ground, Waste Lands, Nelson
- Alfred Greenfield, Clerk in Superintendent's Office
🏛️ Acknowledgment of funds collected for families of British forces in the Russian War
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 November 1854
Donations, Russian War, British Forces, Charity
- H. F. Butt (Reverend), Donated funds for families of British forces
- A. M. Garin (Reverend), Donated funds for families of British forces
- Alfred Greenfield, Clerk in Superintendent's Office