Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1856 – No. 11

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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. IV. NEW PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1856. [No. 11.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand" it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to prorogue the Provincial Council from time to time, whenever he shall deem it expedient to do so.

Now I, the Superintendent of the Province of New Plymouth do hereby proclaim and declare that, in exercise of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act, I this day prorogue the Provincial Council of the said Province of New Plymouth.

Given under my hand at New Plymouth, this twenty-third day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,

20th October 1856.

I HEREBY notify for general information that I have accepted from

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM RICHMOND, Esq.
his resignation of the office of Attorney of the Province.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

NOTICE.

Council Chamber, October 23, 1856.

WHEREAS a Special Committee of the Provincial Council has been appointed at the recommendation of the House of Representatives to enquire into all alienations of land in this Province made without the authority of law. Notice is hereby given that the said committee will sit at the Council Chamber on Friday the 31st inst., at 11, where all claims in respect of such alienations will be entertained, and it is requested that all applications be made in writing and be addressed to the Chairman of the Committee.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Speaker.

NOTICE.

Council Chamber,
New Plymouth, October 10, 1856.

SUBJECT to the approval of the Provincial Council of the Province of New Plymouth, the Speaker has appointed

MR RICHARD PHENEY,
provisionally, to be Clerk of the Provincial Council.

The appointment is to date from the 1st day of October instant.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Speaker.

ERRATA.

IN the Notice of the sale of Crown Land in the Government Gazette for the Province of New Plymouth, Vol IV, No 10, the name of Walter James Morrison is erroneously inserted as the purchaser of Section No 51, instead of Walter John Morrison.

Printed by G. W. Woon for the Provincial Government.




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🏘️ Prorogation of the Provincial Council

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
23 October 1856
Proclamation, Provincial Council, Prorogation, New Plymouth
  • Charles Brown, Superintendent

🏘️ Resignation of the Attorney of the Province

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
20 October 1856
Resignation, Attorney of the Province, New Plymouth
  • Christopher William Richmond (Esquire), Resigned as Attorney of the Province

  • Charles Brown, Superintendent

🗺️ Notice of Special Committee regarding land alienations

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
23 October 1856
Land alienation, Special Committee, Provincial Council, New Plymouth
  • I. Newton Watt, Speaker

🏘️ Appointment of Clerk of the Provincial Council

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
10 October 1856
Appointment, Clerk of the Provincial Council, New Plymouth
  • Richard Pheney (Mr), Appointed Clerk of the Provincial Council

  • I. Newton Watt, Speaker

🗺️ Errata regarding land sale notice

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Errata, Land sale, Correction, New Plymouth
  • Walter James Morrison, Erroneously listed as purchaser
  • Walter John Morrison, Corrected name of purchaser