✨ Government Proclamations and Appointments
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. IV. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1851. No 13.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, C.B., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by a Commission under the Public Seal of the General Government of New Zealand, bearing date the 14th day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, the GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF of New Zealand, pursuant to the authority vested in him in that behalf, by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing date the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, to appoint me, ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, during the absence from the said Province of the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, and of the person appointed by Her Majesty, by a Commission, under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the said Province :
Now, therefore, I, ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, do hereby proclaim and declare, that I have this day taken the prescribed oaths, and assumed the administration of the Government of the said Province of New Ulster accordingly, and I hereby call upon the Inhabitants of the said Province to be aiding and assisting me therein.
Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of New Ulster, at Government-House, Auckland, this twenty-sixth day of April, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD,
Lieutenant-Governor.
By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, April 26th, 1851.
HIS EXCELLENCY the LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint WILLIAM W. J. COCKCRAFT, Esquire, Captain in H.M. 58th Regiment, to be his Private Secretary.
By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 24th April, 1851.
HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant JOHN A. HICKSON, of the New Zealand Fencibles, to be a Justice of the Peace for the Province of New Ulster.
By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
Printed by WILLIAMSON & WILSON, for the New Zealand Government.
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🏛️ Proclamation of Lieutenant-Governor Wynyard
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration26 April 1851
Proclamation, Lieutenant-Governor, Oaths, Government Administration
- Robert Henry Wynyard (Lieutenant-Colonel), Proclaimed as Lieutenant-Governor of New Ulster
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
🏛️ Appointment of Private Secretary to Lieutenant-Governor
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration26 April 1851
Appointment, Private Secretary, H.M. 58th Regiment
- William W. J. Cockcraft (Esquire), Appointed Private Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
⚖️ Appointment of Justice of the Peace
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement24 April 1851
Appointment, Justice of the Peace, New Zealand Fencibles
- John A. Hickson (Lieutenant), Appointed Justice of the Peace
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary