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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 1st October, 1844.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased ao appoint

PERCIVAL BERRAGE, Esquire,
to be Commissioner of the Court of Requests in
the Northern District or Division of New Zea-
land.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 1st October, 1844.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

Mr. EDWARD HARDY,
to be Clerk to the Court of Requests in the
Northern District or Division of New Zealand.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 1st October, 1844.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

WILLIAM TYE,
to be Bailiff for the Court of Requests in the
Northern District or Division of New Zealand.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 1st October, 1844.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint the following Officers
to be Collectors of Revenue, under the Ordi-
nance of the Governor and Council of New
Zealand, Session 4, No. 2.

PETER DODS HOGO, Esq., Chief Collector.
Messrs. JOHN M'CARTHY,
STEPHEN CABREEK,
JAMES WEBSTER,
THOMAS PRINGLE,
to be Collectors in the Districts of Auckland,
Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, and Rus-
sell respectively.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 1st October, 1844.
COLLECTORS of Revenue will be required
to collect in those places which are nearer
to their respective residencess measured in a

straight line across the Map-than to the resi-
dence of any other Collector of Revenue.

Collectors of Revenue will not be required to
call on Officers of the Army or Navy on full
pay-who do not possess House or Land in
New Zealand-as they are not deemed to be
"resident" in the Colony.

By Command
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency ROBERT FITZROY,
Esquire, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal
Navy, and Governor and Commander-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 a Proclamation bearing
date the 26th day of March, 1844, it
was notified to the Public that the Crown's
right of Pre-emption would be waived over
certain portions of Land in New Zealand;-and
whereas the terms and conditions set forth in
such Proclamation on which the right of pre-
emption would be so waived, have in some cases
been disregarded, either by persons making pur-
chases of land from the Natives without first
applying for, and obtaining, the Governor's
consent to waive the right of pre-emption, or
by much understating the quantity of land pro-
posed to be purchased from the Natives:-and
whereas, certain persons have misrepresented
the objects and intentions of Government in re-
quiring that a fee should be paid on obtaining
the Governor's consent to waive the right of
pre-emption on behalf of Her Majesty-who,
by the Treaty of Waitangi, undertook to protect
the Natives of New Zealand-and, in order to
do so, has checked the purchase of their lands
while their value was insufficiently known to
their owners.

And whereas, the evil consequences of mis-
representing the motives of Government, and
asserting that to be a mark of oppression-even
of slavery-which is in reality an effect of pa-
rental care-are already manifest;-and are cer-
tain to increase seriously if the cause be not
removed.

And whereas, the Natives of New Zealand
have become perfectly aware of the full value of
their lands-and are quite alive to their own
present interests-however indifferent at times
to those of their children.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, acting on
behalf of Her Majesty the Queen;-do hereby
proclaim and declare, that from this day no fees
will be demanded on consenting to waive the
right of pre-emption:-that the fees payable on
the issue of Crown Grants, under the following
regulations, will be at the rate of one penny
per acre; and that until otherwise ordered
I will consent; on behalf of Her Majesty, to
waive the right of pre-emption over certain