New Zealand Gazette – 1842 – No. 6

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✨ Administrative Notices and Proclamations



NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
Published by Authority.

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1842. [No. 6.

THE attention of the Heads of De-
partments is particularly called
to the necessity for sending in to the
Office of the Colonial Secretary early
on Saturday, whatever is intended for
publication in the Covernmennt Gazette
on the ensuing Wednesday, as non-at-
tention to this rule has in some instan-
ces delayed the publication of the Ga-
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-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies, and Vice
Admiral of the same, &c. &c.

HEREAS, 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, 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,
ordinanances, 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 exe-
cution thereof."

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, 2nd February, 1842.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint—

HENRY AUGUSTUS THOMPSON, Esq.,
Barrister at Law, Inner Temple.

To be Police Magistrate for the Town and Dis-
trict of Nelson, in the island of New Munster.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.



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📰 Notice regarding submission deadlines for Gazette publication

📰 NZ Gazette
9 February 1842
Publication deadlines, Department Heads, Colonial Secretary
  • WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND

🏛️ Proclamation appointing Chief Justice as Deputy Vice-Admiral

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
22 January 1842
Vice-Admiralty, Proclamation, Deputy appointment, Chief Justice
  • William Martin (Esquire), Appointed Deputy Vice-Admiral

  • WILLIAM HOBSON, ESQUIRE, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, and Governor and Commander in Chief
  • WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND

⚖️ Appointment of Police Magistrate for Nelson District

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
2 February 1842
Police Magistrate, Appointment, Nelson, New Munster
  • Henry Augustus Thompson (Esquire), Appointed Police Magistrate

  • WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND, Colonial Secretary