New Zealand Gazette – 1855 – No. 30

Page 258

✨ Mail Despatches and Estate Balances



Postmaster General has entered into
further contract for a like service on the 20th
of every month during the remainder of the
present year.

It is further stated, as you will perelve,
thit both contracts provide that Return Mans
shall be brought from Australia to Liverpool,
and that the dates at which the Packets shall
leave Melbourne on the homeward voyage
shall be fixed by the Colonial Government at,
Sydney

gret that the information regarding
this further arrangement was not received at
this Department from the Post Office mal
rities in time to be communicated to you b
the last mail,

I have, &c., &c.,
(Signed) J. RUSSELL.

Governor Browne,
&c, &c., &c.
New Zealand.

[Copy]

General Post Office,
5th June, 1855.

SIR,

I am directed by the Postmaster
General to acquaint you for the information
of Lord John Russell, that in addition to the
contract concluded with Mesers. Baines & Co.,
of Liverpool, for the conveyance of the Mails
to Australia on the 5th of each month, he has
entered into a contract with Messrs. Pilking-
ton & Wilson, also of Liverpool, for a like
service on the 20th of every month during
the remainder of the present year.

Both contracts provide that Return Mails
shall be brought from Australia to Liverpool,
and that the dates for the Packets to Lave
Melbourne on the homeward voyage shali be
fixed by the Colonial Government Sydney.

Viscount Canning desires me to request
that the Governor of New South Wales may
be informed of this provision.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) F. HILL.

Herman Merivale, Esq.,
&c., &c., &c.

Downing Street,
26th June, 1855.

SIR,

I have to acquaint you that Her Ma-
jesty's Government have decided that, on
and from the 30th instant, a British rate of
postage of one penny (over and above any
Foreign rate chargeable where Newspapers
are conveyed through a Foreign Country)
shall be levied upon every Newspaper for-
warded from the United Kingdom to a
British Colony, either by Packet or by Pri
vate Ship.

I have, &c., &c.,
(Signed) J. RUSSELL.

Governor Browne,
&c. &c., &c.

THOMAS OUTHWAITE, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, as Official Administrator, from the 1st day of July to the 30 day of
September, 1855.

A TRUE and PERFECT SCHEDULE of all UNCLAIMED BALANCES of DECEASED PERSONS ESTATES, dministered by THOMAS

Names of Intestates. Colonial Residence. Supposed British Residence of Family. Moneys Received. £ s. d. Payments made. £ s. d. Balance in the hands of The Registrar. £ s. d. Balance in Treasury. £ s. d. Remarks.
Nil. Nil. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I, Thomas Outhwaite, Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the above is a true and faithful Return of all Unclaimed Balances
belonging to Deceased Persons' Estates, administered by me in the Province of Ackland and Colony of New Zealand, from the 1st day of July to the 30th day of September, 1855.

Made and declared at Auckland, this sixteenth day of October, 1855, before me.
WM. MARTIN, C.J.

I certify to the correctness of the foregoing return, which corresponds with the accounts of this office.
THOMAS OUTHWAITE
A. SHEPHERD, Colonial Treasurer.

Printed by Williamson & Wilson, for the New
Zealand Government.




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🚂 Publication of Despatches regarding conveyance of Mails to Australia and Newspaper Postage. (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
12 December 1855
Mails, Contracts, Australia, Return Mails, Pilkington & Wilson, Baines & Co.
  • J. Russell
  • Governor Browne

🚂 Despatch confirming mail contracts with Baines & Co. and Pilkington & Wilson.

🚂 Transport & Communications
5 June 1855
Mail contracts, Liverpool, Baines & Co., Pilkington & Wilson, Melbourne, Sydney
  • F. Hill
  • Postmaster General
  • Viscount Canning
  • Herman Merivale, Esquire
  • Governor of New South Wales

🚂 Decision setting British postage rate for Newspapers sent to British Colonies.

🚂 Transport & Communications
26 June 1855
Newspaper postage, British rate, Penny rate, British Colony
  • J. Russell
  • Governor Browne

⚖️ Schedule of Unclaimed Balances of Deceased Persons Estates administered by Official Administrator.

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
16 October 1855
Official Administrator, Supreme Court, Deceased Estates, Unclaimed Balances, Auckland
  • Thomas Outhwaite, Esquire
  • WM. MARTIN, Chief Justice
  • A. Shepherd, Colonial Treasurer