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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 15th March, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer administers
ing the Government has been pleased
to appoint

READER G. WOOD, Esq.,
to be a Commissioner of the Waste Lands
Board, and to act as Treasurer thereof on
behalf of the General Government, under
the New Land Regulations, published in
the New Zealand Government Gazette,
dated 9th February, 1855, and which this
day come into operation in the Province
of Auckland.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 14th March, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to di-
rect that the name of the following gentleman
should be added to the Commission of the
Peace for the Province of Auckland.
WILLIAM DAVIES, Esq., M.D.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
8th March, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
appoint
FREDERICK WHITAKER, Esq.,
to be acting Attorney-General during the
absence of WILLIAM SWAINSON, Esq., on leave
on account of ill health. This appointment
to date from the 1st instant.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office. Auckland,
8th March, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS BECKHAM, Esq ,
to be Senior Resident Magistrate in the Pro-
vince of Auckland.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office. Auckland,
8th March, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government has been pleased to
appoint
J. J. SYMONDS, Esq.,
to be Native Secretary vice Major NUGENT,
resigned. This appointment to date from the
1st instant.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
8th February, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
appoint
STEPHEN CARKEFK, Esquire,
to be an Inspector of the Colonial Bank of
Issue at Wellington under the 23rd Section
of the "Paper Currency Ordinance," Session
8 No. 16.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th January, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
direct that the following Despatch from Her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies,
should be published for general informa-
tion.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Circular.

Downing Street,
15th August, 1854.
Sir,—
I transmit herewith the copy of a
Letter which has been addressed to this De-
partment, by direction of the Lords Commis-
sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, enclosing
copy of a Letter from the Postmaster-Gene-
ral, n which it is recommended that a reduc-
tion be made in the gratuities paid to Masters
of Vessels, Pilots, Boatmen, and others, for
the conveyance of Ship Letters,

I have to instruct you to bring the recom-
mendation of the Postmaster General under
the consideration of your Executive Council,
with a view to the proposed reduction being
effected in the colony under your Govern-
ment.

I have &c., &c.,
G. GREY.

The Officer administering
the Government of
New Zealand.

Treasury Chambers,
11th August, 1854,
Sir,—
I am commanded by the Lords Com-
missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to trans-
mit to you herewith for the information of
Sir George Grey, copy of a Letter from the
Postmaster-General dated 13th February last,
recommending a reduction in the Gratuities
paid to Masters of Vessels, Pilots, Boatmen,
and others, for conveyance of Ship Letters,
and I have to request that you will move the
Secretary of State to cause the necessary
communications to be made to the Governors
of those Colonies which have the direction
of their own Postal arrangements, with a
view to their co-operation in the proposed
plan for the reduction of Gratuities to the