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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Excellency's Command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. IV.] WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1851. [No. 2.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1851.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Despatch, with its enclosures, for general information.
By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 48.
Downing Street, 5th August, 1850.
Sir,
I transmit to you a correspondence which has taken place between myself and the Directors of the New Zealand Company.
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You will observe that in consequence of the Directors having given this notice on the 5th of July, the last day allowed by the Act, it has been impossible to make any previous arrangements respecting the mode of the transfer of their lands to the Crown. Those lands actually became demesne lands on the 5th July, by virtue of the Act, and on the same day the Instructions of 1846, respecting the Crown lands, became again in force in the Southern Province.
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Under these circumstances, it is not possible for me as yet to convey to you more than the general direction, that it is the wish of Her Majesty's Government that any bona fide dealings which may have taken place with those lands, since the 5th of July, under the management of the Company's Agents, and which may be at variance with the Instructions in question, should be, as far as possible, respected, and such measures taken to legalize them as may appear necessary, referring to me for directions whenever it does not appear to you that the local authorities possess the necessary powers for this purpose.
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As the cessation of the Company's powers on the 5th of July was a contingency which must have contemplation of all parties to such dealings, it is not probable that much has been done in this way which will require to be thus rendered valid; nor is it my wish to give you any positive orders upon the subject until further information reaches me, but to indicate only the general views which are to be followed.
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As the whole of the Company's lands, under the terms of the Act, became, on the 5th of July, “demesne lands,” and consequently subject to the Instructions, I have thought it advisable, in order to remove any
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🗺️ Publication of Despatch Regarding New Zealand Company Lands
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- ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary