New Ulster Gazette – 1850 – No. 18

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✨ Government Instructions and Despatch

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.
Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto 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. III. AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1850. No. 18.

Civil Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 2nd September, 1850.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has directed the following despatch to be published for general information.

C. A. DILLON,
Civil Secretary.

Military.}
No. 55.
Downing-street,
11th February, 1850.

Sir—With reference to my Despatch, No. 54, Military, of the 2nd ultimo, I have the honor to transmit to you additional Instructions to yourself, which the Queen has been pleased to issue under her Royal Sign Manual and Signet, altering so much of Her Majesty’s Instructions with regard to the disposal of land in New Zealand, as may be technically inconsistent with the settlement of Military Pensioners and of the aboriginal inhabitants, and also with the allowance of a remission to a certain extent of the purchase money of land acquired by Military and Naval Officers purposing to settle in the colony.

I have the honor, &c.,
(Signed)
GREY.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.

VICTORIA REGINA.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS

to Our Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor-in-Chief for the time being: To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Ulster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being: To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being: To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Zealand, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being: Given at Our Court, at Windsor, this seventh day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty, in the thirteenth year of Our Reign.

WHEREAS, by Our Instructions under Our Signet and Sign Manual accompanying Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom bearing date the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, We, among other things, direct that no land or of belonging to Us in New Zealand should by Us, Our Heirs or Successors, or by any Governor-in-

VUW Te Waharoa — New Ulster Gazette 1850, No 18

The short-lived province of New Ulster never had an established council building (in fact, the New Ulster Legislative Council never met). The Province was led by Lieutenant-Governor George Dean-Pitt, whose residence was a regency style villa (depicted) at the top of Greys Avenue, Auckland.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Publication of Despatch from Downing Street

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated11 February 1850
KeywordsDespatch, Military Instructions, Land Disposal, New Zealand
👱🏽 Names

George Grey (Sir), Governor-in-Chief

👩‍💼 Officials

C. A. Dillon, Civil Secretary
Grey, Secretary of State

🏛️ Additional Instructions to Governors of New Zealand

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated7 February 1850
KeywordsRoyal Instructions, Land Settlement, Military Pensioners, Aboriginal Inhabitants
👩‍💼 Officials

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