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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 12th January, 1844.

T
ENDERS will be received at this Office
until noon on Monday, the 22nd instant,
from persons who may wish to undertake the
supply of a considerable quantity of Blocks of
Scoria, for Public Works. The Tenders to be
sealed and endorsed "Tenders for Scoria."
Parties who may be desirous to Tender are
referred to the Superintendent of Public Works
for such further information as they may wish
for.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 12th January, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
Notified, that the Ground hitherto
known as the Domain, will be called Auckland
Park, and will be opened to the Public, who are
requested to assist in preserving the Wood there-
upon, and preventing injury to such Public
Works as may from time to time be effected
there.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 12th January, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that Kororareka be
henceforth included within the Township of
"Russell," and be officially designated by the
said name of "Russell," and be the Port of
Entry at the Bay of Islands.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 6th January, 1844.

WITH reference to the Proclamation under
this date, notifying an intended Sale of
Town and Suburban Lots, on the 29th day of
January instant, His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to direct the publication, for
general information, of the following Extract
of a Letter from Mr. Under Secretary Hope to
Joseph Somes, Esq., Governor of the New
Zealand Company, dated Downing Street, 12th
May, 1843.

"The Company propose :-
1st. "To purchase £50,000 worth of Land
in Auckland, and its vicinity; £10,000 worth,
at least, to be in the Town, and £25,000 worth,
at least, to be in the Country; the Company
taking the remaining £15,000 worth of Land in
Town, Suburban, or Country Lots, provided
they do not take more altogether in Suburban
than Town Lots,

By His Excellency's Command,
(For the Colonial Secretary),
JAMES STUART FREEMAN.

2nd. "That the Town Lots be purchased by
auction, and that they be offered at the upset
price of £100 per acre; as far as practicable,
however, such Lots to be put up together in
parcels of 10 acres each, and the whole Lands
applied for in the Town by the Company at any
one time to be sold on the same day, unless
otherwise settled at the request of their Agent,
and with the assent of the Governor.

3rd. "The Suburban Lots to be sold by
auction. If the Company apply at one and the
same time for one hundred acres or upwards,
the whole to be put together at one general
upset price of £5 per acre.

4th. "That the Country Lots should follow
the Rule established by the Land Sales' Act,

5th. "That credit be given to the Company,
by the Land and Emigration Commissioners,
for the sum of £50,000, in consideration of their
abandoning their claim to 50,000 acres of Land,
out of the whole quantity to which they are
already entitled."

"Lord Stanley directs me to state his assent
to these proposals."

COUNTY COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Sitting of
this Court, for the dispatch of Criminal
business, will be held on Tuesday, the 16th
instant, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the
Court House, at Kororarika, in the Bay of
Islands; at which time and place, all persons
bound by recognizance to appear either as pros-
ecution, defendants, or witnesses, are required
to attend.

The Court will be open for the dispatch of
civil business on the following day.

WILLIAM DONNELLY,
Clerk of County Court.

County Court Office,
January 5th, 1844.

FIVE POUNDS REWARD.

WHEREAS, on Sunday last, during Divine
Service, the House of Mr. Adam, in the
neighbourhood of Auckland, was feloniously
entered, and divers articles of Plate and Jewel-
lery stolen therefrom. It is hereby notified,
that a reward of Five Pounds will be given to
any person or persons (except the actual per-
petrators of the robbery) who shall give such
information to the Chief Police Magistrate, as
may lead to the discovery of the Offenders.

FELTON MATHEW,
Chief Police Magistrate,

Police Office, Auckland,
3rd January, 1844.