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plete submission of all the rebels, and the con-
sequent restoration of tranquillity in the North-
ern Districts of New Zealand; and I have it in
command to acquaint you, that Her Majesty has
received with great satisfaction these several
reports of the proceedings which have produced
results so important to the welfare of all classes
of Her Majesty's subjects, native as well as
British born, who are connected with the Colony
under your Government, and that Her Majesty
views with entire approval the measures which
you have adopted on this occasion.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
W. E. GLADSTONE.

Lieut.-Governor Grey,
&c., &c., &c.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY,
Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted
by the Governor of New Zealand,
with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council thereof, Session 3, No. 1, intituled
"An Ordinance for establishing a Supreme
Court," it is amongst other things enacted,
that there shall be holden Circuit Courts for
the dispatch of Civil and Criminal business of
the Court, before one of the Judges thereof,
at such places and at such times as His Excel-
lency the Governor shall, with the advice of
the Executive Council, by Proclamation from
time to time appoint.

Now, I, the Lieutenant-Governor, under
and by virtue of the authority in me for that
purpose vested by the said recited Ordinance,
do hereby, with the advice of the Executive
Council, proclaim and appoint that a Circuit
Court for the dispatch of Civil business in the
Northern Division of the Colony, shall be
holden at Auckland, on the seventh day of
June, and the seventh day of December, in
each year; and in case either of the days
aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or
holiday, then that such Court shall be holden
on the day following.

Given under my Hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the Colony,
(L.S.) at Government House, Auckland,
this fifteenth day of December, in
the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-six.

GEORGE GREY,
Lieut. Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY,
Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Lieutenant-Governor of New
Zealand, with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Council thereof, Session 7, No. 8,
intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Cus-
toms Ordinance, Session 1, No. 3, and the
Customs' Amendment Ordinance, Session 3,
No. 6," it is amongst other things enacted
that it shall be lawful for His Excellency the
Governor from time to time by Proclamation
to appoint and define proper places within the
several Ports of the Colony to be legal quays or
landing-places for the lading and unlading of
goods and to define the portions of such
quays and landing-places upon which particular
goods shall be laden or unladen; and also in
like manner to appoint the hours within which
such goods shall be so laden or unladen. And
by the said recited Ordinance it is also enacted
that all goods liable to the payment of any
duty of Customs, which shall be laden or un-
laden in any Port contrary to the provisions
of any such Proclamation, as aforesaid, shall
be forfeited.

Now, I, the Lieutenant-Governor, in pur-
suance of the power and authority in me for
that purpose vested by the said recited Ordi-
nance, do hereby proclaim and appoint that
within the Port of Auckland on and after the
twenty-first day of December, instant, so much
of Commercial Bay as lies between the end of
Queen Street Jetty, and that part of the beach
situated opposite the bonded warehouse of
Messrs. Williamson and Crummer, shall be,
and be deemed and taken to be, the legal quay
or landing-place for the unlading of all goods
(not being goods entered to be warehoused):
and that the Queen Street Jetty be the land-
ing-place for the unlading of goods entered
to be warehoused.

And I do hereby further proclaim and ap-
point, that all goods (not being goods entered
to be warehoused) be unladen between the
hours of eight o'clock in the morning and
four o'clock in the afternoon, from the first
day of October, to the thirty-first day of
March—and between the hours of nine o'clock
in the morning, and four o'clock in the after-
noon, from the first day of April, to the thir-
tieth day of September. And that all goods
entered to be warehoused be unladen between
the hours of eight o'clock in the morning, and
one o'clock in the afternoon, from the first
day of October, to the thirty-first day of
March—and between the hours of nine o'clock
in the morning and one o'clock in the after-