OUI MALY
DROIT
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Officia
Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made
to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

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

VOL. III.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1855. [No. 16.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
13th July, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
direct the republication of the following Pro-
clamation, dated 31st December, 1850, altering
the rates of Postage payable in New Zealand
for the transmission, receipt, or delivery of
Letters.

His Excellency further directs it to be noti-
fied that the Postage Stamps referred to in the
7th paragraph of that Proclamation have been
received, and are issuable by Post Masters to
the Public at the respective fixed values of
such Stamps, viz.:-one penny, two pence,
and one shilling per stamp.

Post Masters are directed, on the receipt of
stamped Letters or Packets in each Post Office
to cancel the Stamps on such Letters or Packets
previously to their despatch.

Persons are particularly requested to ascer-
tain the exact weight of their Letters and
Packets before posting them, in order to ena-
ble them (the senders) to affix the correct
Stamps upon each Letter or Packet.

The Stamps to be affixed on the outside of
all Letters or Packets above the address writ-
ten on them.

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

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
K.C.B., Governor-in-Chief in and
over the Is'ands of New Zealand,
and Governor of the Provinces of

New Ulster and New Munster,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor-in-Chief of New Zea-
land, with the advice and consent of the Le-
gislative Council thereof, Session 9, No. 2,
intituled, "An Ordinance for Regulating the
Conveyance and Postage of Letters," it is
amongst other things enacted, that it shall be
lawful for the Governor-in-Chief, from time
to time, by Proclamation to be published in
the Government Gazette, to abolish, alter,
and fix the Colonial Postage, payable for the
transmission by Post of Letters and other
Papers, and from time to time, by such Pro-
clamation as aforesaid, to alter, repeal, or
abolish any Colonial Postage so altered or
fixed as aforesaid, and to make and establish
any new or other Postage in lieu thereof.

And whereas it is expedient that by pre-
paying the postage, persons should be enabled
to send letters to and from the Colony of New
Zealand to Great Britain free of Postage to
the persons receiving the same, and that a
system of pre-payment of letters by stamps
should be introduced into New Zealand, and
to that end that the rates of Colonial Postage
to be charged on all letters be fixed according
to the weight thereof, and without reference
to the distance or number of miles the same
may be conveyed.

Now therefore I, the Governor-in-Chief of
New Zealand, in pursuance and by virtue of
the power and authority vested in me by the
said recited Ordinance and under and by vir-
tue of all other powers and authorities ena-