✨ Proclamation and Land Notice
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
FOR THE
PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH.
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.
CHARLES BROWN, Superintendent.
VOL. III. NEW PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1855. [No. 19.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies &c., &c.
(L.S.)
To CHARLES BROWN, Esq., Captain of the New Plymouth Battalion of the New Zealand Militia,
BY virtue of the Power and Authority in me vested by an Ordinance of the Governor and Council of the said Colony, intituled "An Ordinance for raising a Militia within the Colony," I do hereby authorise and direct you to draw out with all convenient speed Four Hundred of the Inhabitants of New Plymouth liable under the said Ordinance to serve in the Militia—the same to be forthwith embodied, armed, drilled, partly clothed, and paid in such manner as shall be hereafter made known to you and to do constant Military Duty until further orders from me will be received.
Given under my hand and under the Public Seal of the said Colony at New Plymouth this twenty-ninth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
T. GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By His Excellency's command,
W. GISBORNE,
for the Colonial Secretary.
NOTICE.
Superintendent's Office,
3rd November, 1855
THE PASTURAGE of the unenclosed lands lying waste and uncultivated within the undermentioned Districts in the Town of New Plymouth and Town Belt, will be put up for sale on SATURDAY the 8th December next, at Noon, at the Office of the Provincial Treasurer in Courtenay-street, for the term of One Year, commencing 1st January, 1856. The sale is pursuant to the provisions of the Ordinance of the Province, Session II, No. 2; and to the subjoined conditions:
PARTICULARS.
District No. 1.—North of the Mangatuku, and West of Queen-street.
District No. 2.—South of the Mangatuku, and West of Robe-street and Queen-street.
District No. 3.—North of Courtenay-street and bounded East by Hobson-street, and West by Liardet-street.
District No. 4.—South of Devon-street and bounded East by River Henui, and West by Carrington Road.
CONDITIONS.
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Each District shall be put up at the sum fixed by the Auctioneer; and if any dispute shall arise as to the last or highest bidder for any District, the same shall be put up again at a former bidding.
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No person shall at any bidding advance less than one pound—or retract his bidding.
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The purchase money will be payable as follows:—Ten per cent at the auction, and the remainder by equal instalments of ten per cent, payable on the first January 1856, and on the first of each subsequent month until the full amount is paid.
CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.
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