NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1848.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR directs it to be notified for general information, that the Ordinance for the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, came into operation on the 1st January, 1848, and that persons neglecting its provisions are liable to certain Fines and Penalties therein particularized.

By the said Ordinance it is enacted that every Birth must be Registered within 42 days after it happens, by the Mother or Father of the Child born, or the occupier of the house wherein the birth takes place.

And every Death by the occupier of the house wherein it occurs, within 10 days.

Penalty for default in either case, not exceeding £10.

After 42 days, the Deputy-Registrar may register the Birth, upon a solemn declaration of the particulars by the Father or Guardian, or some person present at the birth, and upon payment of a fee of 10s. 6d.

Penalty for registering otherwise, after 42 days, not exceeding £50.

But Births of Children, born at Sea or out of the Colony, of Parents ordinarily resident in the Colony, may be registered after 42 days without fee, declaration being made as aforesaid.

But no Birth can be registered after the expiration of Six months from the day it happens.

Certificates of the names given to Children by Baptism, or before the Deputy Registrar, are to be obtained from the Minister officiating or the Deputy Registrar, on payment of One shilling, and delivered within 7 days after the naming to the Deputy Registrar who has registered the Birth, who will then register the name and naming, on payment of One shilling.

No burial is to take place without a Certificate from the Deputy Registrar to the Undertaker or person having charge of the funeral, that the Death has been registered. If a funeral take place without notice of the death having been given, then the person burying, or performing service at the Burial, is to give notice of it to the Deputy Registrar, within One month. Penalty for default not exceeding £10.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1848.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint Samuel Stephens, Esquire, of Nelson, to the Commission of the Peace, for the Province of New Munster.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

Treasury, Wellington,
15th May, 1848.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the undermentioned Special Publican’s Licences are ready for issue:—

William Jenkins, at Uruhi.
James Walker, at Wairarapa.
Charles Radford, at Porirua.
T. Jackson Hughes, at the Hutt.

Henry W. Petre,
Col. Treasurer.

Treasury, Wellington,
17th May, 1848.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the under-mentioned are Licensed Auctioneers for the Year ending 25th April, 1849:—

James Smith, Wellington.
Robert Waitt, Wellington.
Kenneth Bethune, Wellington.

Henry W. Petre,
Col. Treasurer.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1848.

REPRESENTATIONS having been made to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the dangerous state of the Packages of Gunpowder deposited in the Magazine by private individuals.

NOTICE is hereby given that if the Powder be not immediately repacked and rendered secure it will be destroyed.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Sitting of the Supreme Court for the despatch of Criminal Business, will be holden at the Court House, Wellington, on Thursday, the 1st day of June next, at Ten o’Clock, in the Forenoon, at which time and place all Persons under Recognizances to appear either as Prosecutors, Defendants, or Witnesses, are required to give their attendance.

Robert R. Strain,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1848.