Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1848.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint
Francis Dillon Bell, Esquire,
to the Commission of the Peace for the Province of New Munster.

By His Excellency’s Command,
Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1848.

TENDERS
will be received at this Office
on or before Wednesday, the 16th
August next, from persons desirous of building, for the Local Government,

A Decked Vessel of Twenty Tons,
A Full-sized Whale Boat,
required for service at Wanganui.
The plans and specifications may be seen,
and all other information obtained, at the
Harbour Master’s Office.
Tenders to be in Duplicate, Sealed and
Endorsed, “Tenders for Decked Vessel, or
Whale Boat,” as the case may be.

By His Excellency’s Command,
Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1848.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct that the following letter and
notice relative to the position of the Sunken
Rock off Point Jerningham, be published
for general information.

By His Excellency’s Command,
Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

Her Majesty’s Sloop “Fly,”
Wellington, 26th June, 1848.

Sir,

Having heard through the Harbour
Master, that there is a Book off Jerningham
Point, on which several vessels have
been on shore, I have the honour to inform
your Excellency that I have placed a temporary Buoy thereon, and beg leave to enclose directions for avoiding it.

I have the honour to be,
Your Excellency’s
Most obedient servant,
(Signed) R. A. Oliver,
Commander.

To His Excellency
The Lieutenant-Governor,
&c., &c., &c.
Wellington, New Zealand.

“There is a Rock with seven feet
water on it, low water, spring tides, on
which several vessels have struck, seventy
fathoms NNW. of Jerningham Point, (the
point which forms the boundary between
Evans’ Bay and Lambton Harbour.) By
keeping a remarkable red brick house with
six windows in front, three above and three
below, with a white balcony between them,
to the right of a wooden house on the beach
with two garret windows on each side of
the roof, the first house on the beach to the
right of the windmill buildings, this danger
will be cleared. The soundings which
are deep to, will give no indication of this
pinnacle rock.”

R. A. Oliver.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1848.

THE UNDERMENTIONED persons
having preferred claims for compensation for the destruction of certain buildings by H.M. Troops at Wanganui, during the disturbances there in April and
May 1847, are hereby required to make
declaration before a Resident Magistrate of
the original cost of the buildings respectively belonging to them which were actually destroyed by the order of the officer
commanding the Troops on the occasion
alluded to.

It must be distinctly understood that
no estimate of the value of furniture or
moveables is to be included in the above
declaration:—

Captain Campbell
Mr. Charles Small
Mr. H. S. Harrison
Mr. R. J. Deighton
Mr. S. Parkes
Mr. Thring
Mr. John Day
Mr. J. Lockett

By His Excellency’s Command,
Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

OVERLAND MAILS.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1848.

THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR having been led to suppose that the
Public are not generally aware that an
Overland Mail is in regular transit between
Wellington and Auckland, His Excellency
has directed that a notification be given of
such arrangement.

This Mail leaves Wellington every alternate Tuesday morning at daylight, passes
through Wanganui and New Plymouth, and
is from thence forwarded regularly once a
fortnight to Auckland.

Letters sent by this conveyance may thus
be three or four weeks in reaching their
destination. The Postmaster has been instructed to afford every information to those
wishing to forward their correspondence by
this route. No letters will be transmitted
by these opportunities unless marked by
“Overland Mail.”

By His Excellency’s Command,
Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.