✨ Government Proclamation and Correspondence
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, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1849. No. 5.
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 Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, was passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, viz:
“An Ordinance to settle an annuity to the amount of £100 per annum, to be paid to the Native Chief Thomas Walker Nene, for the term of his natural life, in consideration of the services rendered by him to Her Majesty, and to make it lawful for the Governor, for the time being, out of the general revenue of the colony, to pay to and amongst such other chiefs who aided in suppressing the late rebellion in the North, and in such proportions as to him may seem meet, any sum not exceeding £100 per annum in consideration of like services.”
Which Ordinance 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, as a proof of Her Majesty’s approbation of the services of the said Chiefs. 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 Ordinance.
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 fifth day of March, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.
By His Excellency’s command,
C. A. DILLON,
Civil Secretary.
God Save the Queen!
Civil Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 5th March, 1849.
HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct that the following despatch from the Right Honourable Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, be published for general information.
By His Excellency’s command,
C. A. DILLON,
Civil Secretary.
No. 68.
Downing-street,
5th August, 1848.
Sir,—I have the honor to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a correspondence laid before Parliament respecting the services rendered by the Native Chiefs of New Zealand.
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