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, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1856. [No. 16.

Superintendent's Office,
New Plymouth, 28th Nov., 1856.

THE following correspondence with the
Honorable the Colonial Secretary is
published for general information.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland 16th Nov., 1856.

Sir,—Referring to your Honor's letter of the 28th
April, 1855, No. 148, respecting the remission of a
fine of five pounds imposed on Mr R. Brown of New
Plymouth for a breach of the Native Land Purchase
Ordinance, I have the honor to inform you that in
September last your His Excellency the Officer
Administering the Government remitted this fine
the defendant being at the same time cautioned
against any future transgression on his part.

The Resident Magistrate reports in a letter of the
18th ultimo that as this fine had been paid over to
the Provincial Treasury, and your Honor had re-
ceived no communication on the subject from the
General Government, the matter was still in abey-
ance, His Excellency's Government would there-
fore be obliged if your Honor would give the ne-
cessary instructions for the refund of the amount to
the Resident Magistrate with a view to the remis-
sion being carried out.

I have at the same time to express the regret of
the Government that your Honor has hitherto re-
ceived no reply to your communication on this sub-
ject.

I have the honor to be, &c.,
E. W. STAFFORD.

His Honor the Superintendent,
&c. &c. &c.

Superintendent's Office,
New Plymouth, 27th Nov., 1856.

Sir,—I have the honor to acknowledge your com-
munication of the 10th inst., informing me that in
September last your His Excellency the Officer Ad-
ministering the Government remitted a fine of five
pounds imposed on the 24th April, 1855, on Mr
R. Brown of this Province for a breach of the Na-
tive Lands Purchase Ordinance.

In compliance with your request I have directed
the Provincial Treasurer to pay over to the Resident
Magistrate on his application the amount of fine
above mentioned.

The information against Mr R. Brown was the
third at the instance of the Provincial Government
acting under the terms of a notice published in the
Provincial Government Gazette at the suggestion
of Mr Commissioner McLean.

Believing the previous cases of Mr W. H.
Honeyfield and Mr J. B. White, to be more de-
serving of consideration than the subsequent case
of Mr R. Brown, on which the penalty was remitted,
I have for the sake of uniformity in the dispensation
of justice, exercised the authority delegated to me
by His Excellency the Governor to remit the pen-
alty of Five Pounds imposed on Mr William
Henry Honeyfield on the 27th November, 1854,
under the Native Lands Purchase Ordinance, and
the penalty of Five Pounds imposed on Mr J. B.
White on the 7th December, 1854, under the Na-
tive Lands Purchase Ordinance.

I have the honor to be, &c.,
CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
&c. &c. &c.