✨ Mail Forms and Court Proclamation
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 21
- Paid newspapers transmitted through the
United Kingdom for British Colonies and
Foreign Countries, and upon which the postage
has been collected in
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Number of boxes containing letters. Number of boxes containing Newspapers.
NUMBER OF REGISTERED LETTERS (as per lists sent herewith.
Number. Postmaster.
LETTER BILL, No. 4.
Certificate for correspondence between New Zealand and places not already specified.
Post Office,
18
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the Ship Mail, No. by the Captain and sealed with
directed to the Postmaster-General
the seal of this Office (an impression whereof is hereunto annexed) contains—
Letters, including registered as per list,
Newspapers,
and that the gratuity on each Letter authorised by Law is paid. POSTMASTER,
To the Postmaster-General,
who is requested to sign, date the arrival, and return this certificate to the Ship Letter Office,
Auckland, by the first opportunity.
SCHEDULE E.
GRATUITIES TO MASTERS OF VESSELS:
1st. On letters and packets (newspapers excepted), brought in vessels not
under special contract for the conveyance of mails, per letter or packet...... 1d.
2nd. On letters and packets or newspapers brought in vessels under contract
for the conveyance of mails................................................................... no gratuity
W HEREAS by the "District Courts Act,
1858," it is provided that there shall
be within the Colony, Courts of Record posses-
sing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be
ealled, 'District Courts,' and the Governor is
empowered from time to time by notification in
the New Zealand Gazette to fix the time and
places within the District at which every such
Court shall be held.
Now therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
Governor of the Colony, do hereby, in pursu-
ance and execution of the said power and
authority, fix that a Session of the District
Court of Otago, shall be held at Dunedin, in
the Province of Otago; and a session of the
District Court of Taranaki, atNew Plymouth, in
the Province of Taranaki, on the Fifteenth day
of March next, respectively.
As witness my hand, this thirteenth
day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-
Adrairal of the same, &c., &c.
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⚖️ Fixing times and places for District Courts in Otago and Taranaki
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement13 January 1859
District Courts Act 1858, Jurisdiction, Otago, Dunedin, Taranaki, New Plymouth, Court session
- T. Gore Browne
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief