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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, May 6, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has directed that the following correspondence be published for general information.

By His Excellency’s command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Sir,—I have the honour to enclose a document addressed to the Landholders at New Plymouth by several of the most influential Inhabitants of Auckland, expressive of their opinion that no objection would be held to the exchange of land by claimants in New Munster for land in this Province. From the readiness with which so many signatures were appended to the letter within an hour or two this morning, I am sure that if there were sufficient time to visit the entire settlers in this District, before the time of your Excellency’s embarkation, the names of every one of them might have been obtained.

I have, &c.,

(Signed)
JAMES SMART.

To His Excellency
Sir GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

Auckland, April, 1851.

GENTLEMEN,

In answer to your enquiries, We, the undersigned, landowners and others interested in property in Auckland and its vicinity, state our opinion, that no objection exists to the extension of the repurchasing clauses of the proposed “New Zealand Company’s Land Claimants Bill” to the Province of New Ulster, and that the right to reselect in any part of New Zealand will be only fair to the scripholders, and most beneficial for the general interests of the Colony. We beg to subscribe ourselves

Yours, &c., &c.,

Signed by

W. S. Grahame George Hunter
A. Kennedy Alfred Jones
S. A. Levy H. R. Kane
R. Thompson J. T. Boylan
J. Macky Robt. Lusk
T. S. Forsaith Andrew Rooney
J. Watson Bain H. Hardington
Thomas Lewis Thos. Gibson
E. Wardell Henry Matson, J.P.
F. Gardiner William Gorrie
C. A. Harris J. Williamson
Thomas Russell W. Hughes
Rich. Ridings H. Hadlow
Walter Coombes Arch. Clark
W. R. Gundry Robt. Mitchell
J. A. Smith Wm. McKenzie
Edw. Mayne, J.P. W. Hobson
William Connell, J.P. John Macfarlane
John Rout Thos. Henderson
Edw. Rich Robt. McDowell
J. A. Gilfillan, J.P. T. C. Hallamore
Chas. Davis Jno. Commons
George Smith

To Mr. Robert Parris, and others,
Land Claimants of Taranaki.

NOTICE.

Resident Magistrate’s Court,
Auckland, May 5, 1851.

AT the desire of the Wardens of the Hundred of Auckland, I hereby invite a Special Meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the Town and District of Auckland, to be held at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Auckland, on Wednesday the 21st day of May, 1851, at 12 o’clock, noon, for the purpose of estimating and assessing reasonable rates for the general or ordinary damages which shall and may be demanded in a summary way, for the trespass of Cattle, and to specify all such reasonable Fees as shall be taken and charged by any Poundkeeper, for any matter or thing required to be done by him, under and by virtue of the Impounding Ordinance, Sess. 8, No. 6.

THOS. BECKHAM,
Resident Magistrate.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of the Supreme Court for the Despatch of Criminal Business, will be held at the Court House, Auckland, on MONDAY, the Second day of June next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon; and that a Sitting for the despatch of Civil Business will be held at the Court House on SATURDAY, the Seventh day of June next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which times and place all persons under recognizance to appear as Prosecutors, Defendants, or Witnesses are required to give their attendance.

THOS. OUTHWAITRE,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Auckland, 2nd May, 1851.

Harbour Master’s Office,
Auckland, April 22nd, 1851.

NOTICE is hereby given that any person removing any Shingle, Stone, Shells, or any part of the Soil from the several Beaches in the vicinity of the Town of Auckland, without permission of the Harbour Master, or, in his absence, from the Resident Magistrate, will be proceeded against, in accordance with the 17th clause of the Harbour Regulations.

I. J. BURGESS,
Acting Harbour Master.

Onehunga Hundred,
24th March, 1851.

MR. JAMES MAGEE has been appointed by us to be RANGER, under the Crown Lands Ordinance, No. 1, Sess. 10, for the Hundred of Onehunga.

The appointment to bear date from the 18th instant.

JAMES C. HILL, \ Wardens of
W. POWRITCH, > the Hundred
THOS. SOMERVILLE,} of Onehunga.

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