Reign of Her present Majesty, a certain Banking Company called the Bank of Australasia was established and incorporated, and empowered to carry on the business of Bankers (amongst other places) in New Zealand and has applied for authority to issue and circulate within the said Colony, the Promissory Notes of the said Company, payable to bearer on demand.

Now therefore, I SIR GEORGE GREY, the Governor as aforesaid, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act, do hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council, proclaim and declare that the "Bank of Australasia" may lawfully issue and circulate within the said Colony the Promissory Notes of the said Bank, payable to bearer on demand, subject to the provisions and restrictions in the Letters Patent contained.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the public seal of the colony of New Zealand, this twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By his Excellency’s command.

WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, January 18, 1864.]

LETTERS PATENT.

A PROCLAMATION.

Fixing the time for bringing into operation an Act to determine the time at which Letters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament made and passed in the Session held in the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Act to determine the time at which Letters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies," it is enacted that the said Act shall take effect in each of Her Majesty’s Colonies and Possessions as soon as the same shall be proclaimed therein by the officer administering the Government thereof. Now, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony of New Zealand, Do Hereby Proclaim that the said Act shall take effect within the said Colony from and after the date hereof.

Given under my hand, at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this thirteenth day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command.

WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, January 18.]

POSTAL.

Appointment of Postmasters.

General Post Office,
Auckland, January 8th, 1864.

IN virtue of the powers delegated to me by His Excellency the Governor, the following appointments have been made in the service of the Colony.

WILLIAM FOX,
For the Postmaster-General.

OTAGO.

William Hay, to be Postmaster at Hindon, from 1st November, 1863.

William Thomas Flynn, to be Postmaster at Teviot Junction, from 1st July, 1863.

James Scott, to be Postmaster at Pomahaka, from the 16th November, 1863.

John Albert, to be Postmaster at Franktown from the 16th November, 1863.

Alexander Marshall, to be Postmaster at El Dorado, from the 1st December, 1863.

James Hamilton Parker, to be Postmaster at Linburn, from the 1st December, 1863.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, January 18, 1864.]

MARINE BOARD.

General Post Office,
Auckland, January 14th, 1864.

THE following Notice received from the Marine Board, relative to a sunken rock near Napier, Hawke’s Bay, is published for general information.

WILLIAM FOX,
For the Postmaster-General.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

SUNKEN ROCK.

THE position of the Sunken Rock in Hawke’s Bay, upon which the steamship "Auckland" struck in August, 1863, has been ascertained by Mr. Murray, Harbor Master and Pilot of the Port of Napier. The following bearing and distance is given, viz.:-

"It is a shoal with four fathoms, having numerous detached rocks extending north and south, a quarter of a mile in length. The Bluff, ‘Scinde Island,’ bears from the northernmost end of the shoal, west by compass, distant one mile, Cape Kidnappers south-east.

By direction of the Provincial Government of Hawke’s Bay, a buoy has been laid down, half a cable’s length from the north end of the shoal.

(Signed,)
THOMAS MURRAY,
Harbor Master and Pilot.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, January 2nd, 1864.

CHARLES SHARP,
Master Warden, Marine Board.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, January 18.]

Alfred Domett, Esquire, appointed Secretary for Crown Lands.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, January 13th, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED DOMETT, ESQUIRE, M.G.A.,

to be Secretary for Crown Lands.

This appointment bears date the 24th ultimo.

WM. FOX.