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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1848.

TENDERS will be received at this Office for the conveyance of a prisoner and guard to Van Diemen’s Land.

Tenders should be in duplicate, sealed, and endorsed "Transport of Prisoner, &c., to Van Diemen’s Land."

By His Excellency’s Command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

ALL PERSONS are cautioned against employing or harbouring JAMES NICOL, one of the Carpenter’s Crew of H.M.S. Havannah, absent from his ship without leave.

The said James Nicol is a native of Scotland, aged 21 years, 5 feet 6 inches in height, fair complexion, blue eyes, and brown hair, and has for some years past been resident in Sydney, New South Wales.

N.B.—By the 10th and 11th Victoria, Cap. 62, it is enacted that “every person who shall assist or procure any person in Her Majesty’s Navy to desert or improperly absent himself from his duty, or shall conceal, employ, or continue to employ any person belonging to Her Majesty’s Navy who shall be a deserter or improperly absent from his duty, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Thirty Pounds, for every such assistance, procurement, concealment, employment, or continuing of employment as aforesaid,” such penalty to “be recovered with costs, either by information or complaint, by summary proceedings before any Justice of the Peace residing in or near to the place where the offence shall be committed, or where the offender shall happen to be at any time, and whether the offence be committed in or out of Her Majesty’s dominions, or within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England or not,—and one moiety of such penalty shall be paid to the informer or complainant,” &c., &c.

JOHN G. ERSKINE, Captain.

H.M.S. Havannah,
December, 15th, 1848.

Printed at the Spectator Office.

VUW Te Waharoa — New Munster Gazette 1848, No 24

The Province of New Munster was led by Lieutenant-Governor Edward John Eyre, whose residence was First Government House (depicted) on the land where Parliament now sits in Wellington.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Tenders for Transport of Prisoner to Van Diemen’s Land

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated14 December 1848
KeywordsPrisoner transport, Tenders, Van Diemen’s Land
👩‍💼 Officials

Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary

🛡️ Notice Regarding Deserter from H.M.S. Havannah

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated15 December 1848
KeywordsDeserter, H.M.S. Havannah, James Nicol, Warning
👱🏽 Names

James Nicol, Deserter from H.M.S. Havannah

👩‍💼 Officials

John G. Erskine, Captain

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