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ting together shall constitute a Board; and I
authorise and empower the said Commissioners
in each of the said Provinces respectively to
appoint a Secretary if they shall see fit...
Finally, I do hereby nominate and appoint
to be "Commissioners of Compensation In-
[Text obscured] the
Governor of New Zealand.

For the Province of New Plymouth-
Josiah Flight, Esquire,...
William Halse, Fsquire,
George Cutfield, Esquire,

For the Province of Wellington-
The Hon. Henry St. Hill, Esquire,
M.L.C.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Esquire,
M.H.R., and M.P.C.
George Moore, Esquire.

For the Province of Nelson-
The Hon. Matthew Richmond, Esq.
M.L.C.
William Thomas Locke Travers, Esq.,
M.H.R.
John Waring Saxton, Esq., M.P.C.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, this 24th day of
Oct., in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-four.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Officer Administering the Government.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Wednesday, 21st June, 1854.

RESOLVED-That a Return of the amount
of Land Scrip awarded by the New Zealand
Company on the Government, as compen-
sation to sufferers, in respect of Land pur-
chased from the Company, in their settlements
of Wellington and Whanganui, and also of
the cases in which such compensation was not
awarded in such respect; shewing the name
of each original purchaser of a Land Order
from the New Zealand Company, and the
number and date of each Land Order, the name
of every Transferee of any Land Order, with
the date of each Transfer; the name of every
Claimant for compensation, and the amount
and nature of each Claim, distinguishing be-
tween Residents and Absentees, the amount
and nature of each award, and the name of
the person to whom each award was made,
with the statement of the grounds of the
award or non-award, in each case distin-
guishing between Residents and Absentees and
between original Purchasers and Transferees,
the name of the person to whom the grant of
Land has been made in respect of each award,
with the date of the Grant, and the reason for
making it, when not made to the person to
whom the Scrip was awarded, and any recorded
proceedings of the body of Resident Purchasers

I by whom the general claim was made, and of
the Committee of that Body by whom the
particular claims were investigated and de-
termined" be laid on the table.

(True Extract.)
(Signed) C. CLIFFORD, Speaker.

Colonial Secretory's Office, Auckland,
17th October, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
authorize W. B. White, Esq., Resident
Magistrate at Monganui, to act as an Agent
of the Surveyor-General, and receive appli-
cations to purchase land in that district.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
18th October, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
direct that the several Postmasters in the
Colony are for the future to correspond
direct with this office on all subjects con-
nected with their departments.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
13th October, 1854.

IN pursuance of the 29th clause of the
Resident Magistrate's Courts Ordinance
Session 7, No. 16, I hereby select and ap-
point the following Aboriginal Native to be
an Assessor along with the Resident Magis-
trate for the district of Rotorua, for settling
disputes between persons of the Aboriginal
Race; that is to say-

NGAHURUHURU, of Ohinemutu.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Officer Administering the Government.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW
ZEALAND.

In the Estate of WILLIAM SMALLEY, of Auck-
land, deceased, intestate.

PURSUANT to the rule of this honorable
Court, the creditors of the above-named
intestate are on or before the first day of
January next to come in and prove their debts
before Thomas Outhwaite, Esq., Registrar of
the said Court, at his office in the Court
House, Auckland, or in default thereof they
will be peremptorily excluded from all benefit
arising from the said estate.

THOS. OUTHWAITE, Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Auckland, 1st October, 1854.