✨ Official Appointments Proclamations
DIE SOIT QUI MALY PENSE MON DROIT
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
Published by Authority.
VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1842. [No. 12.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency WILLIAM HOBSON,
Captain in Her Majesty's Royal
Navy, and Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief, in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c. &c. &c.
WHEREAS, by Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of the High Court of Admi-
ralty of England, bearing date the thirteenth day
of March, 1841, Her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to ordain, constitute, and depute me,
William Hobson, Esquire, Captain in Her Ma-
jesty's Royal Navy, to be Her Majesty's Vice-
Admiral, Commissary, and Deputy in the office
of Vice-Admiralty in Her Colony of New Zealand
and to the Territories thereon depending; to take
cognizance of, and proceed in all cases, civil and
maritime, and in all complaints, contracts, of-
fences, or suspected offences, crimes, and mis-
demeanours, or suspected misdemeanours, within
the Maritime Jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiralty
of the said Colony of New Zealand. To hear
and determine the same, according to the rights,
statutes, laws, ordinances, and customs anciently
observed, with power of deputing and surrogating
in my place for the premises, one or more Deputy
or Deputies, under me, for the said office and
execution thereof.
Now, I, the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Colony of New Zealand aforesaid, in
pursuance of the above authority, do hereby ap-
point EDMUND STORR HALSWELL, Esquire, Bar-
rister-at-Law, County Judge of the Southern
District of New Ulster, my Deputy, with full
power, to take cognizance of and proceed in all
matters, and to hear and determine the same in
manner aforesaid.
Given under my Hand and Seal.
this twenty-second day of
March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and forty-two.
W. HOBSON, GOVERNOR.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22d March, 1842.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been pleas-
ed to appoint
SAMUEL KING, Esquire, Captain R. N..
To be Police Magistrate for the District of Tar-
anaki or New Plymouth, in the island of New
Ulster.
This appointment bears date from the 1st Jan-
uary, 1842.
By His Excellency's command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1842.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint
WILLIAM CURLING YOUNG, Esquire,
of Nelson, to be a Magistrate of the Territory.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
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🏛️ Proclamation Appointing Deputy Vice-Admiral for New Zealand
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 March 1842
Proclamation, Vice-Admiralty, Deputy Appointment, Southern District, New Ulster
- Edmund Storr Halswell (Esquire), Appointed Deputy Vice-Admiral
- William Hobson, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Willoughby Shortland
⚖️ Appointment of Police Magistrate for Taranaki District
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement22 March 1842
Police Magistrate, Taranaki, New Ulster, Appointment
- Samuel King (Esquire), Appointed Police Magistrate
- Willoughby Shortland
⚖️ Appointment of Magistrate for the Territory
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement22 March 1842
Magistrate, Territory, Appointment, Nelson
- William Curling Young (Esquire), Appointed Magistrate of the Territory
- Willoughby Shortland