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., &c.

WHEREAS, the undermentioned Ordinances enacted by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, were passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, viz:

No. 1, Session 10, “An Ordinance to regulate the occupation of Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of New Ulster.” (23rd August, 1849.)

No. 4, Session 10, “An Ordinance for Quieting Titles to Land in the Province of New Ulster.” (26th August, 1849.)

Which Ordinances having been, by the Right Honorable 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 Ordinances.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty one.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency’s command,
C. A. DILLON,
Civil Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint—

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS, Esquire,
of Otago,

WILLIAM M’LEOD BANNATYNE,
GEORGE HUNTER, and
GEORGE MOORE, Esquires,
of Wellington, to be Magistrates of the Province of New Munster.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has directed it to be made known that the notice appointing a Commissioner of Crown Lands at Otago, which appeared in the Government Gazette, of the 21st February last, has been cancelled, and that the following is hereby substituted.

WILLIAM CARGILL, Esquire,
to be Commissioner of Crown Lands at Otago.

The appointment to have effect from the 1st January, 1851.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD WRIGHT, Esquire,
to be Deputy Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the District of Canterbury.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1851.

THE TENDERS for executing certain repairs to the Road at Duck Creek, between London’s Public House and Pauatahanui, submitted in pursuance of the Gazette Notice of the 13th ultimo, being considered too high, have been declined.

Fresh offers will therefore be received at this Office for the above service on or before the 2nd April next.

The Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Survey Office.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct that the following Despatches, &c., be published for general information.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.