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(From the New Zealand Gazette)

Revocation and Granting of Licenses for Bonding Warehouses at the Port of Wellington.

NOTICE.

THE Licenses for the two Warehouses, one of Brick and the other of Iron, situated in Farish-street, and known as Loxley’s, have been cancelled and a License for the reception of goods under bond under the “Customs Regulation Act, 1858,” granted for the Brick Warehouse, which will in future be known as Owen’s Bonding Warehouse.

S. CARKEEK,
Deputy-Commissioner.

Custom House, Wellington,
20th May, 1863.

Aerolites for the British Museum.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1863.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following despatch from the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, with its enclosures, for general information.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, June 5, 1863.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit for your information a New Zealand Gazette of the No. and date noted in the margin, (20. June 4, 1863) containing the copy of a despatch from His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, covering a letter from Deputy Principal Librarian of the British Museum, on the subject of the acquisition of Aerolites for that Institution from the Colonies, and to request your Honor’s aid in furthering such object.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant

ALFRED DOMETT.

His Honor the Superintendent,
Wellington.

(From the New Zealand Gazette above referred to.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
New Plymouth, 20th May, 1863.

THE following Despatch, with its Enclosures, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Downing Street, Feb. 9th, 1863.

SIR,—I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Deputy Principal Librarian of the British Museum, expressing the desire of the Trustees of that Institution to obtain, as an accession to their present collection of Aerolites, such specimens as may in future come into possession, or be procurable by the public functionaries in the British Colonies. I also transmit to you copies of two papers referred to in the enclosed letter, and I should be glad if you would make the contents of these papers known in the Colony under your Government, in such manner as may be best calculated to forward the views of the Trustees, and also that you would render any assistance in your power in furtherance of the same object.

I have, &c.,

NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey.
&c., &c., &c.,

Mr. Winter Jones to the Duke of Newcastle.

British Museum, Jan. 26, 1863.

My Lord Duke,—I have the honour to acquaint your Grace, that the Trustees of the British Museum have had under consideration the advantageous results which might be expected in accessions to the fine collection of Aerolites now in the Museum, were measures taken to obtain for the National Institution such Aerolites as may in future come into the hands of, or be procurable by, the public functionaries in the British Dominions Abroad, and Her Majesty’s Representatives in Foreign Countries. With this object, the papers of which I have the honor to enclose copies, were drawn up, and a large number of them has been forwarded to the Foreign Office, by direction of the Trustees, to be transmitted to the British Ambassadors, Ministers, Consuls, and other Official Persons in foreign countries.

I am now directed to submit to your Grace the request of the Trustees, that copies of the enclosed papers (which they will be happy to supply), may be transmitted to the Governors and Commanding Officers of the various British Colonies and Dependencies, with instructions to make the contents thereof generally known in their respective governments, and to transmit for the British Museum such Aerolites of importance as they may be able to procure, as well as to forward the views of the Trustees in this respect in any other way that may seem to them fit.

I have, &c.,

J. WINTER JONES,
Deputy-Principal Librarian.

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K. G.,
&c., &c., &c.,