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absent froin the said Islands of New Zealand.
Now therefore, I, the Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand do hereby
proclaim and declare that I have this day as-
sumed the powers and authorities vested in
me by virtue of the said Commission.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand
at Auckland, this seventh
day of January, in the
year of our Lord, one thous-
and eight hundred and fifty-
four.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
27th December, 1853.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

STEPHEN CARKEEK, Esq.,
to be Sub-Treasurer, temporarily, at Wening-
ton.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
December 28th, 1853.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to direct that the following
Despatches from the Secretary of State
should be published for general information.

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

Downing Street, 18th July, 1853.

SIR,-With reference to my Circular
despatch of the 9th May, I have further to
communicate to you the liberal intentions of
the Government of His Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of the French, respecting the ad-
mission of Foreign prohibited Goods to the
Great Industrial Exhibition at Paris in May
1855.

His Majesty's Government have decided
that all Foreign prohibited Goods may be
admitted for Exhibition, and may be after-
wards either re-exported free of all duties, or
may be sold in France upon the payment of
an ad valorem duty at the rate of Thirty per
Cent.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c

Downing Street, 19th July, 1853.

SIR,-I transmit to you, herewith, an
Order made by Her Majesty in Council on
the 13th ultimo, establishing certain Rules
and Regulations in Appeals to the Queen in
Council from the Colonies, and from the
Territories of the East India Company, with
a view to greater economy, despatch, and
efficiency in the Appellate Jurisdiction of
Her Majesty.

You will take the necessary steps for
giving the most extensive publicity to these
Rules and Regulations, which have been
recommended by the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council for the purpose of
effecting a material improvement in the
administration of Justice, and a considerable
reduction in the cost of prosecuting Appeals
to the highest Tribunal in the Country.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE,

the 13th day of June 1853.

PRESENT:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT
MAJESTY.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.

LORD PRESIDENT,
LORD STEWARD,
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
DUKE OF WELLINGTON,
LORD CHAMBERLAIN,
EARL OF ABERDEEN,
EARL OF CLARENDON,
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON,
MR. HERBERT,
SIR JAMES GRAHAM, Bart.

WHEREAS there was this day read at the
Board a report from the Right Honourable
the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council, dated the 30th May last past,
humbly setting forth that the Lords of the
Judicial Committee have taken into consi-
deration the practice of the Committee with
a view to greater economy, despatch, and
efficiency in the appellate jurisdiction of Her
Majesty in Council, and that their Lordships
have agreed humbly to report to Her Ma-
jesty that it is expedient that certain changes
should be made in the existing practice in
Appeals, and recommending that certain
Rules and Regulations therein set forth
should henceforth be observed, obeyed, and
carried into execution, provided Her Majesty
is pleased to approve the same:

HER MAJESTY, having taken the said
Report into consideration, was pleased, by
and with the advice of Her Privy Council,
to approve thereof, and of the Rules 'and
Regulations set forth therein, in the words
following, videlicet:—