Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1861 – No. 3

Page 670

✨ Legal Notices and Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. VIII.] MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1861. [No. 3.

NOTICE TO PERSONS HARBOURING, &c., DESERTERS FROM H.M. SHIPS.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1861.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has directed the following Clause of the English Act to be published, enumerating the penalties to which all persons harbouring, &c., deserters from H.M. ships are liable.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

10 & 11 Victoria, Cap. 62—Page 670

"XI. AND BE IT ENACTED, that every person who, by words or any other means whatsoever, shall persuade any Person in Her Majesty's Navy to desert or improperly absent himself from his duty, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Twenty Pounds for every such act; and every person who shall assist or procure any Person in Her Majesty's Navy to desert or improperly absent himself from his duty, or shall conceal, employ, or continue to employ any Person belonging to Her Majesty's Navy who shall be a deserter, or improperly absent from his duty, knowing him to be such a deserter or so improperly absent, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Thirty Pounds for every such Assistance, Procurement, Concealment, Employment, or continuing of Employment as aforesaid."

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of Wellington, Session III., Number 8, intituled an "Act to Amend and Consolidate the Law relating to Cattle Trespass and Impounding," It is enacted, That the Superintendent may from time to time by Proclamation declare any Pounds to be, or cease to be Public Pounds within the meaning of the said Act, and may from time to time in like manner appoint, suspend, remove and reappoint keepers of such Pounds.

Now therefore I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, Do hereby Proclaim the Pound erected on Rangitikei Quay, on the left bank of the Wanganu River, to be a Public Pound, within the meaning of the above-mentioned Act,—and that

ANDREW GREEN,
of Wanganui, shall be the keeper thereof.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

[PRINTED BY MACKENZIE AND NUIR.]

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1861, No 3

The Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted) were shared with Parliament after 1865

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

⚖️ Notice regarding penalties for harbouring deserters from H.M. ships

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Dated24 January 1861
KeywordsDeserters, Penalty, Harbouring, H.M. Ships
👩‍💼 Officials

William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary

🏛️ Proclamation declaring a public pound and appointing a keeper

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated26 January 1861
KeywordsPublic Pound, Proclamation, Keeper Appointment, Wanganui
👱🏽 Names

Andrew Green, Appointed keeper of the public pound

👩‍💼 Officials

Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent
William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary

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