New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 10

Page 70

✨ Official Appointments and Despatch

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd April, 1856.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following
despatch from Her Majesty's Secretary of
State for the Colonies, should be published for
general information.

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

Downing-street,
September 3rd, 1855.

SIR,—
With reference to the Circular Despatch
addressed to you by my predecessor on the
26th June last, signifying that on and from
the 30th of that month, a British rate of
postage of One Penny would be levied upon
every Newspaper forwarded from the United
Kingdom to a British Colony, I have now to
acquaint you that Her Majesty's Government
have come to the determination to abolish the
Regulation, by which it has hitherto been
requisite that all Newspapers sent out of he
United Kingdom, besides being liable to
postage, should bear an impressed stamp
denoting the Stamp Duty.

Henceforth it will not be necessary that
Newspapers sent abroad, whether to the
British Colonies or to Foreign Countries,
should bear the impressed stamp. The

stamp will neither be required nor will it
count as postage, as it will be presumed that,
where it is employed, it has already served
for the transmission of the Newspaper within
the United Kingdom.

I have &c.,
W. MOLESWORTH.

To Governor Gore Browne.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
4th April, 1856.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to directthat the name of the un-
dermen tioned gentleman should be added to
the Commission of the Peace for the Colony
of New Zealand,

HERBERT SAMUEL WARDELL, Esq.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
24th March, 1856.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

HARCOURT R. AUBREY, Esquire, J.P.
to be a Resident Magistrate.

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

Auckland:—Printed by Williamson & Wilson:

Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1856, No 10

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Publication of Despatch on Newspaper Postage Regulations Abolition

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated3 April 1856
KeywordsDespatch, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Newspaper postage, Abolition, Impressed stamp, United Kingdom
👩‍💼 Officials

ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary
W. MOLESWORTH, Secretary of State for the Colonies
Governor Gore Browne

⚖️ Addition of Name to the Commission of the Peace

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Dated4 April 1856
KeywordsCommission of the Peace, Appointment, Justice
👱🏽 Names

HERBERT SAMUEL WARDELL (Esquire), Added to Commission of the Peace

👩‍💼 Officials

ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary

⚖️ Appointment of Resident Magistrate

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Dated24 March 1856
KeywordsResident Magistrate, Appointment, Justice of the Peace
👱🏽 Names

HARCOURT R. AUBREY (Esquire, J.P.), Appointed Resident Magistrate

👩‍💼 Officials

ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary

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