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Merchandise, for ascertaining the process employed, and for fully investigating in all respects and reporting upon the validity of any claim.

Every claim for reward must be preferred in writing before the 1st January, 1861, to the principal officer of Customs at the port of entry nearest to the place where it is desired that the examination of the merchandise shall take place, who will at once proceed to ascertain whether the full quantity in respect of which the reward is claimed, is ready for examination, and if such quantity is ready, he will give a certificate to that effect, dated on the day on which he shall have ascertained the fact, and such day shall be deemed to be the day on which the merchandise was produced.

Whenever any officer of Customs is required to go more than three miles from his residence, his travelling expenses must be paid beforehand by the person requiring his attendance, and he cannot be required to attend a second time if the quantity was found deficient on the first occasion.

One-half of any reward will be paid at once to any person whom a Commission shall report and the Governor shall have determined to be entitled to the same—after which no other claim to the same reward will be entertained—and the other half upon satisfactory proof being given to the Governor of the bonâ fide sale of the merchandise in Europe, at an advance of not less than 20 per cent upon the bonâ fide actual cost of the article landed in Europe.

By His Excellency’s command,

HENRY JOHN TAUNTON.

Provincial Treasury,
Wellington, May 3rd, 1859.

NOTICE is hereby given that Auctioneers’ Licenses for the current year have been granted to the undermentioned:

Duncan, Richard John, Merchant, Wellington
... Wanganui
Gudgeon, Thomas Wyeth, ... Wellington
Hunter, George ... Wellington
Lewis, Edward ... Wanganui
Martin, John ... Wellington
Pharazyn, Charles Johnson ... do.
Powell, Thomas ... Wanganui
Smith, James ... Wellington
Vennell, George Henry ... do.
Wallace, John Howard ... do.

J. WOODWARD,
Provincial Treasurer.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1859.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified for general information that Tuesday, the 24th instant, being Her Majesty’s Birthday, the Provincial Government offices will be closed on that day.

By His Honor’s command,

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1859.

NOTICE is hereby given that, all the unsurveyed land, to the Eastward of the surveyed and selected portions of the Upper Hutt and Pakuratahi Districts, will, from and after this date, be reserved from sale, in order that the same may be laid out and surveyed, for the purpose of being sold by Public Auction, and that until further notice, no applications for selection there will be received at the Land Office, Wellington.

A plan, shewing the boundaries of the reserved land, may be seen at the Land Office.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

SUPREME COURT.

MIDDLE DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Sitting of the Supreme Court for the dispatch of Civil and Criminal business will be holden at the Court House in the Provincial Government Buildings, at Wellington, on Wednesday, the 1st of June next at Ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which time and place, all persons under recognizances to appear as prosecutors, defendants, or witnesses, are required to give their attendance.

ROBERT R. STRANG,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1859.

AND NOTICE is hereby further given, that as in consequence of the absence of His Honor the Judge the Court will be adjourned from the first June; the Grand and Petty Jurors summoned, and parties bound over to prosecute or defend, and witnesses are required to give their attendance on Tuesday, the 14th day of June next, at Ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the said Court House, when such Court will be holden. The Criminal business will be taken on the 14th, the Civil business on the 16th of June.

ROBERT R. STRANG,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1859.