NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. II. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, NOV. 6, 1849. No. 25.

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 twelfth year of the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, viz.:—No. 3, Sess. 9, "An Ordinance to Amend the Supreme Court Ordinance," 18th November, 1848; and No. 4, Session 9, "An Ordinance for the Naturalization of certain persons in the colony of New Zealand," 18th November, 1848; viz.:—

George Adam Kissling, Clerk... Margaret Kissling, Wife... John Kissling...
George Swartz Kissling... Theophilus Kissling... Charles Frederick E. Kissling...
William H. Kissling... and Henry Keesing, senior.

Which Ordinances 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 Ordinances.

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 sixth day of November, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

(L. S.) G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

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

God Save the Queen!

Civil Secretary’s Office,
6th November, 1849.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct that the following despatch from EARL GREY be published for general information.

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

No. 32. Downing Street,
May 23, 1849.

SIR,—I transmit to you herewith Copies of certain resolutions which appear to have passed at a meeting of the directors and shareholders of the New Zealand Company on the 27th ult., which was held for the purpose, as it was intimated, of adopting means for effectually securing New Zealand from being made a penal colony. I have not yet received any communication from the Directors of the Company on the subject, but I transmit in connection with the Resolutions a report of the proceedings at the meeting as extracted from the New Zealand Journal. The grounds of the apprehension entertained on the point are stated as follows:—

First, the general declarations of the Prime Minister and Home Secretary with respect to the new plan of dispersing convict Emigration over many colonies; the British secondly, the fact that although when the Colonization of New Zealand was commenced by the Company, an emphatic pledge was given by Lord Normanby, as the organ of the Crown, at the head of the Colonial Office, that convicts should never be sent