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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official 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,
C. W. RICHMOND, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. IV.] AUCKLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1856. [No. 27.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the publication, for
general information, of the following despatch
together with its enclosure, transmitting the
Queen's Proclamation of the 28th April, 1856,
announcing that the ratifications of a defini-
tive Treaty of Peace, had been duly exchanged,
and commanding that the said Treaty be in-
violably observed in all places.

By his Excellency's command,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

Downing Street,
30th April, 1856.

SIR, I transmit to you enclosed, the Queen's
Proclamation of the 28th instant, announcing
that the ratifications of a definitive Treaty of
Peace and Friendship between Her Majesty
and Her Allies and His Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of all the Russias, which was con-
cluded at Paris on the 30th day of March last,
have been duly exchanged, and commanding
that the said Treaty of Peace and Frendship
be inviolably observed in all places; and I am
to signify to you Her Majesty's pleasure that
you do cause the said Proclamation to be pub-
lished in the Colony under your Government.

I have, &c,
Governor Gore Browne,
&c., &c., &c.
W. LABOUCHERE.

BY THE QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA R.

WHEREAS a Definitive Treaty of Peace
and Friendship between Us and Our
Allies and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of
All the Russias was concluded at Paris on
the Thirtieth Day of March last, and the
Ratifications thereof have now been duly ex-

changed: In comformity thereunto, We have
thought fit hereby to command that the same
be published throughout our Dominions:

And We do declare to all Our loving Subjects
Our Will and Pleasure, that the said Treaty
of Peace and Friendship be observed inviolably
as well by Sea as by Land, and in all Places
whatsoever, strictly charging and commanding
all Our loving Subjects to take Notice hereof,
and to conform themselves thereunto accor-
dingly.

Given at Our Court at Buckinham Palace,
this Twenty-eighth Day of April, in
the Year of Our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six, and in
the Nineteenth Year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

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

WHEREAS a definitive Treaty of Peace
between Her Majesty and Her Allies,
and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias, was concluded at Paris, on the
30th day of March last, and the ratifications
thereof have been duly exchanged: His
Excellency the Governor, in order to afford the
inhabitants an opportunity of commemorating
so propitious an event, has been pleased to
direct that throughout the Province of Auck-
land Wednesday the 13th instant shall be ob-
served as a Public Holiday, and that throughout
each of the other Provinces of this Colony
such day as the Superintendent of such Pro-
vince may appoint after the receipt of this
Gazette shall be observed in like manner.

By his Excellency's command,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

Auckland:-Printed by WILLIAMSON & WILSON,
for the New Zealand Government.