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Officer Administering the Government of the
Islands of New Zealand in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said
in part recited Ordinance, Do hereby Proclaim
and Declare that the person whose name is
underwritten shall be deemed and taken to
be a natural born subject of Her Majesty from
the date set opposite his name until the next
Session of the General Legislature of the Is-
lands of New Zealand as fully to all intents
and purposes as if his name had been inserted
in the Schedule annexed to the said Ordi-
nance.

FERDINAND MEIER, (Landing Waiter of H.M.
Customs at Wellington, a
Native of Prussia,) from
16th September, 1854.

This Proclamation shall take effect from
and after the above date.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Islands
aforesaid this first day of No-
vember, 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.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
3rd November, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government has been preased to
appoint

THOMAS BATEMAN, Esq.,
to be Sub-Treasurer at Russell, Bay of
Islands.

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

PRINTING.

Native Secretary's Office, Auckland,
26th October 1854.

TENDERS will be received at this office,
until noon on Friday, the 24th
of November next, from persons desirous to
contract for printing the Maori Messenger,
for the twelve months, commencing with
the 1st December, 1854.

Security will be required for the due per-
formance of the contract, and the Tenders
should be accompanied by a notification of
the consent of the parties who may be proposed
as Sureties.

Further particulars may be obtained on
application at this office.

C. L. NUGENT,
Native Secretary.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of
the Supreme Court, for the dispatch of
Criminal Business, will be holden at the
Court House. Auckland, on FRIDAY, the
first day of December next, at ten o'clock in
the forenoon; and, that a Sitting for the des

patch of Civil Business, will be holden at
the Court House on THURSDAY, the seventh
day of December next, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, at which times and place all persons
under recognizance to appear as prosecutors,
defendants or witnesses are required to give
their attendance.

THOS. OUTHWAITE.
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office.
Auckland, 25th October, 1854.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
30th October, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government, directs the attention of
the various Postmasters in the Colony to the
following extract from the Minutes of the
proceedings of the House of Representa-
tives.

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

EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1854.

RESOLVED-
That in the management of the Post-office,
it is expedient that the following Rules should
be observed:-
That the Postmaster in each Province be
instructed to establish extra posts within his
Province, in addition to those voted by the
General Assembly, upon a requisition from
the Superintendent to do so-the following
condition being undertaken and observed,
that if the whole postal expenditure within
the Province shall exceed that voted by the
General Assembly, the deficiency shall be sup-
plied by the Provincial Government.
That the Postmaster shall, under such cir-
cumstances, be instructed to furnish to the
Provincial Government from time to time,
full accounts of the Receipts and Expendi-
ture of the Postal Department.
True extract.

CHAS. CLIFFORD,
Speaker.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
3rd November, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government directs the publication,
of the following Despatch from Her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State, for general
information.

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

CIRCULAR.

Downing-street,
30th June, 1854.

SIR,-

With reference to my predecessor's Cir-
cular instruction of the 3rd of September last,
I transmit to you, herewith, a copy of a Cir-
cular Letter of the Board of Treasury, dated