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New Zealand, ship owners are exposed to
damage and often to the most serious losses,
all of which virtually in the long run enhance
the cost of passage, and operate as an impedi-
ment to Emigration, by the difficulty which
the commanders of their vessels experience
with regard to the enforcement of contracts
with seamen. Upon the arrival in the Colony
of British ships destined after the discharge of
their passengers and cargo to some distant
port in India, or elsewhere, the crews either
partially or wholly desert, and though they
have entered into the clearest engagements for
the whole voyage, the Colonial law does not at
present afford adequate means either to prevent
or remedy such breaches of contract. It would
be presumptuous in us to offer, or even to
form positively an opinion on the most suitable
remedy; but we are informed that when Lord
Durham was Governor General in Canada, his
Legislative Council devised, and the officers of
his Government carried into effect during the
short time their authority lasted a sufficient
method of dealing with and correcting this
grievance at Quebec; and on general grounds
which apply to all countries, we suppose that
the legislature of New Zealand would be
equally successful in a similar attempt. We
assure your Excellency that with our present
intention of engaging largely and systemati-
cally in the New Zealand passenger trade, this
subject is of the deepest importance to us, and
one to which we beg to request your Excel-
lency's early attention. Having this assurance
from us, your Excellency will see at once how
necessarily and how deeply the Colony is
interested in the question.

We have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency's most obedient
humble servants,
(Signed) MONEY, WIGRAM & SONS.

We beg your Excellency will understand
that we shall willingly entertain, with every
wish to carry into effect, any other Monetary
arrangement you and the Legislative Council
may think it desirable to propose to us for the
benefit of the Colony.

(Signed) MONEY, WIGRAM & SONS.
To His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Governor-in-Chief, New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1853.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
has been pleased to appoint
CHARLES SIMEON, ESQUIRE,
to be Commissioner of Police at Lyttelton
and Christchurch, in the Canterbury Settle-
ment, under the provisions of the Constabulary
Force Ordinance Session VII, No. 2.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1853.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
has been pleased to appoint
BENJAMIN WALMSLEY, ESQUIRE,
to be Sheriff for the district of Nelson; and

MR. JOHN SHARP,
to be temporarily Clerk of the Bench, and
Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court for
the same district.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1853.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
has been pleased to appoint
MR. JOHN SHARP,
to lay informations under the 1st Clause of
the "Native Land Purchase Ordinance" No.
19, of Session VII., against persons acting
contrary to the provisions of the said Ordi-
nance, within the District of Nelson.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1853.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
has been pleased to appoint
EDWARD SPENSER CURLING, ESQUIRE,
to be a Magistrate of the Province of New
Munster.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1853.

NOTICE is hereby given that for the pur-
poses of the "Impounding Ordinance,"
Session VIII, No. 6, the Districts of Lyttelton
and Christchurch shall be divided by a line to
commence at the Northern Corner of Section
No. 4, on the Estuary of the Heathcote fol-
lowing up the spur in a Southerly direction
to Mount Pleasant, thence continuing along
the Ridge of the Port Cooper Hills, in a