Provinces, to be called respectively the Province of New Ulster, and the Province of New Munster. And we did by the said Charter declare, ordain, and appoint, that the limits of the said Provinces, respectively, should be determined in manner and form prescribed and provided for, in and by the said Instructions, hereinbefore mentioned.

AND WHEREAS, by Our said Instructions, We did ordain and appoint, that the Province of New Ulster, should comprise the whole of the Island hitherto called the Island of New Ulster, with the exception of those parts of said Island adjacent to Cook’s Straits which the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, might by Proclamation, to be issued in manner in the said Instructions, provided, except, and exclude, from the Province of New Ulster: And We did further ordain and appoint that the parts of the Island of New Ulster which might be so excepted and excluded, with all the remaining parts of the New Zealand Islands, should constitute the Province of New Munster. And further that the Dependencies of New Zealand, should respectively constitute a part of and be considered as attached to, and belonging to the respective provinces to which they may severally be most contiguous.

Now We do hereby proclaim and declare that so much of the said Island of New Ulster adjacent to Cook’s Straits, which lies to the South of a line commencing at the centre of the mouth of the River Patea, where it joins the Sea, and running thence due East until it reach the East Coast of the said Island, shall be excepted and excluded from the Province of New Ulster and shall form part of the Province of New Munster.

AND We do hereby further declare and appoint that this Our Proclamation shall take effect upon, and from the date hereof.

In Testimony whereof we have caused this Our Proclamation to be sealed with the Public Seal of the General Government of New Zealand.

Witness Our Trusty and well-beloved GEORGE GREY, Esq., Our Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, in the Province of New Ulster, this Tenth day of March, in the eleventh year of Our Reign, and in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

God save the Queen!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY, Esquire, Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS the under-mentioned Ordinances, enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, were passed in the tenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, viz:—

No. 8. An Ordinance to amend the Customs’ Ordinance, Session 1, No. 3, and the Customs’ Amendment Ordinance, Session 3, No. 6. (20th October, 1846.)

No. 14. An Ordinance to alter certain duties of Customs. (6th November, 1846.)

Which Ordinances having been by the Right Honorable Earl Grey, one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, laid before the Queen, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confirm and allow the same.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief, do hereby proclaim and make known to all whom it may concern, that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confirm and allow the before-mentioned Ordinances.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, (L.S.) in the Province of New Ulster, in the Islands, aforesaid, this twenty-ninth day of March, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency’s Command,
for the Colonial Secretary.

J. COATES.

God save the Queen!

TWO HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 28th March, 1848.

WHEREAS, on or about the 12th day of July, 1847, a serious outrage was committed at the Island of Rotuma by certain evil disposed persons, believed to be British subjects, on several of the Inhabitants of the said Island, and the Native Chief Mushevek, was then and there shot dead:

The Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand hereby directs notice to be given, that a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds will be given on behalf of the British Government to any person or persons who shall apprehend the offender or offenders, or who