✨ Administrative Notices and Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
Published by Authority.
VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1842. [No. 4
THE attention of the Heads of De- suspected misdemeanors, within the Maritime
partments is particularly called Jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiralty of the said
to the necessity for sending in to the Colony of New Zealand. To hear and determine
Office of the Colonial Secretary early the same according to the rights, statutes, laws,
on Saturday, whatever is intended for ordinanances, and customs anciently observed,
publication in the Governmennt Gazette with power of deputing and surrogating in
on the ensuing Wednesday, as non-at- my place for the premises one or more Deputy or
tention to this rule has in some instan- Deputies, under me, for the said office and exe-
ces delayed the publication of the Ga- cution thereof."
zette.
By His Excellency's Command.
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency William Hobson,
ESQUIRE, Captain in Her Ma-
jesty's Royal Navy, and Go-
vernor and Commander in
Chief in and over Her Majes-
ty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies, and Vice
Admiral of the same, &c. &c.
WHEREAS, by Letters Patent, under the
Great Seal of the High Court of Ad-
miralty of England, bearing date the thirteenth
day of March, 1841, Her Majesty has been gra-
ciously pleased to ordain, constitute, and depute
me, WILLIAM HOBSON, ESQUIRE, Captain in Her
Majesty'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 causes, civil and
maritime, and in complaints, contracts, offences, or
suspected offences, crimes, and misdemeanors or,
Now, I, the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Colony of New Zealand aforesaid,
in pursuance of the above authority, do hereby
appoint WILLIAM MARTIN, ESQUIRE, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of this Colony, my
Deputy, with full power to take cognizance of,
and proceed in all the matters, and to hear and
determine the same in manner aforesaid.
Given under my Hand and Seal this
twenty-second day of January, A.D.
1842.
"W. HOBSON, GOVERNOR."
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd January, 1842.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to direct it to be notified, that
until Claims to Land within this Colony shall
have been finally disposed of, all persons who
have preferred their Claims before the Commis-
sioners appointed for hearing the same, will be
allowed to cut Kauri or other Timber on the Land
claimed by them, without interruption by the
Crown.
By His Excellency's Command.
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
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