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of Wellington, in the said Province of New Munster and I hereby appoint and declare that the said District of Wellington shall be divided into two districts the names and boundaries of which shall, for the present, be as follows:

District of Whanganui.

All that part of the District of Wellington (as the same is described in the aforesaid Proclamation of the 15th May, 1848,) which is based-on the North by the line dividing the Province of New Ulster, from New Munster, on the East by the Rua Whaine Range, on the South by the Manawatu River, and on the West by the Sea, shall be called the District of Whanganui and shall be the district of the Deputy Registrar thereof, for the purposes of the said Ordinance.

District of Wellington.

The remainder of the said District of Wellington as described in the Proclamation of the 15th May, aforesaid, shall be called the district of Wellington, and shall be the district of the Deputy Registrar thereof, for the purposes of the said Ordinance.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

G. Gaxy,
Governor.

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

God Save The Queen!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR NOR-IN-CHIEF has directed the publication of the following notice from the London Gazette of 11th March, 1851.

“Foreign Office, March 7, 1851.
“The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Watson Bain as Consul in New Zealand for the King of the Hawaiian Islands.”

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR NOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

Mr. James Williamson

to lay informations under the “Native Land Purchase Ordinance, Session VII, No. 19.”

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, October 7th, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR NOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

Mr. William P. Latham

to the united offices of Inspector of Sheep under the “Scab Ordinance,” and Inspector of Brands and Slaughter Houses, under the “Slaughter House Ordinance,” for the Town and district of Wellington, vice Mr. Philip George Verge, resigned. The appointment to bear date the 9th instant.

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR NOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

David Stark Durie, Esq.,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the district of Whanganui.

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR NOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

Henry St. Hill Esq.,

an Officer for enlisting and attesting Soldiers, or persons desirous of enlisting or re-enlisting into Her Majesty’s Service, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the 12th Vict., c. X, entitled “An Act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the Army and their quarters.”