New Munster Gazette – 1849 – No. 3

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✨ Proclamation and Correspondence

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, K. C. B., 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 undermentioned Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, was passed in the tenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; viz:—"An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Resident Magistrates' Courts, and to make special provision for the Administration of Justice in certain cases," which Ordinance having been, by the Right Honourable 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 of New Zealand 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 Ordinance.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, in the Province of New Ulster, this Fifth day of February, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

(Signed) GEORGE GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency's Command.
(Signed) C. A. DILLON,
Civil Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

No. 59.
Downing Street,
27th July, 1848.

SIR,

I have received your despatch No. 7, of the 9th March last, transmitting a Petition addressed to the Queen, by various inhabitants of Auckland, and its vicinity, including the Bishop, the Chief Justice, and various public officers, praying that Her Majesty would be pleased to revoke the instructions of the Secretary of State, that relate to the appropriation of any lands claimed by or in possession of the Natives, by other means than that of simple purchase as provided by the Treaty of Waitangi, and that Her Majesty would be pleased to direct that the utmost publicity be given to a renewed assurance to the native Chiefs, that Her Majesty never did contemplate, and never will permit the solemn engagements entered into between them and Her Majesty's representatives, to be evaded or set aside; but that the spirit as well as the letter of the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi, affecting the lands of the aborigines, should be most religiously maintained.

You will acquaint the petitioners that I have laid their petition before the Queen, who was pleased to receive it very graciously; and in answer to the prayer of it, I am commanded to refer to the repeated assurances which you have already received from Her Majesty's Government, that no intention has existed on the part of Her Majesty's Government, to interfere with any rights secured to the Natives of New Zealand by the Treaty of Waitangi.

I am, &c.,

(Signed) GREY.
Governor Grey, &c., &c.

VUW Te Waharoa — New Munster Gazette 1849, No 3

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

⚖️ Proclamation of Resident Magistrates' Courts Ordinance

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Dated5 February 1849
KeywordsProclamation, Ordinance, Resident Magistrates' Courts, Justice
👩‍💼 Officials

George Grey, Governor-in-Chief
C. A. Dillon, Civil Secretary

🪶 Correspondence on Treaty of Waitangi and Land Rights

Domain🪶 Māori Affairs
Dated27 July 1848
KeywordsTreaty of Waitangi, Land Rights, Petition, Auckland
👩‍💼 Officials

Grey, Secretary of State

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