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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd Sept., 1841.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint
RICHARD DARIES HANSON, ESQ., J.P.
to be Crown Prosecutor for the Southern Dis-
trict.
By His Excellency's Command
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd Sept. 1841.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint
MR. WILLIAM CONNELL
to be Postmaster-General.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 27, 1841.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint
MICHAEL MURPHY, ESQ., J. P.,
to be Sub-Sheriff at Wellington.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd Sept., 1841.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint
EDWARD CHETHAM, ESQ.,
to be a Magistrate of the Territory.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 27, 1841.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint the following gentlemen
to be Magistrates of the Territory:—
WILLIAM MEIN SMITH, Esq., Captain R.A.
of Wellington.
HENRY KING, Esq., Commander, R. N., of
Taranaki.
EDWARD JERNINGHAM WARREIRED, Esq., of
Wanganui.
PETER WILSON, Esq., of ditto
JOHN NIXON, Esq., of ditto.
SAMUEL KING, Esq., of ditto.
JOHN GEORGE COOKE, Esq., of Taranaki.
GEORGE CUTFIELD, Esq., of ditto.
GEORGE WHITE, Esq., of Petoni.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 27, 1841.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to approve of the Town, situated on
Lambton Harbour, in Port Nicholson, being desig-
nated the Town of Wellington.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 27, 1841.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to direct that the Gaol at Welling-
ton shall be considered as the Common Gaol of
the Town and District, and be under the charge
of the Sheriff.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

NOTICE.
PORT OF PORT NICHOLSON.
NOTICE is Hereby Given, that a Warehouse
situated at Te Aro, the property of
Messrs. Waitt and Tyser, has been approved for
the reception of spirits, wine, and other goods
under bond, in accordance with the Ordinance of
the Governor and Council of New Zealand, No.
3 of 1841.

An apartment adjoining the bonding warehouse
has been rented from Messrs. Waitt and Tyser,
as a temporary Custom House.

Those Merchants, Publicans, and others, who
have failed to make declaration as to the quantity
of spirits in their possession, are required imme-
diately to make the necessary declaration before
the Sub-Collector.

Holders of spirits are reminded that all spirits
which may be removed, unless to the bonding
warehouse, or in virtue of a permit, are liable to
forfeiture.

P. D. Hoae, Sub-Collector.
Custom House, August 28th, 1841.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 27, 1841.
REFERRING to a Proclamation published in
No. 4 of the New Zealand Gazette, dated
July 28, 1841, His Excellency the GOVERNOR
directs that the following be added to the list of
names of places where Courts of Petty Sessions
are to be held, contained therein, that is to say,—

Taranaki,
Wanganui,

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.