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New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 330, 19 July 1849, Page 4 (Supplement)

jesty, intituled "An Act for regulating the carnage of passengers in Merchant vessels :" And whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 10th and 11th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to amend the Passengers' Act, and to make further provision for the carriage of Passengers by Sea :" And whereas by the Act first' hereinbefore referred to it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any British Colony, other than the British West Indies, to declare by Proclamation that the said Act shall be extended and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from such Colony to such places as may by him be named for the purpose in such Proclamation ; and that thereupon the said Act shall be thenceforth so extended and shall so apply accordingly : Now, therefore, I, the said Ggvernor-in-Chief, by virtue <$C the authority in me for that purpose vested as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said recited Acts of Parliament shall be extended and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from the said Colony of New Zealand to all ports and places lying between the 70th and 175 th degree of longitude west of Greenwich. And whereas by the said firstrecited Act it is further enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any such Colony as aforesaid, by Proclamation, to declare the rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying passengers from such Colony to any other place shall be estimated for the purposes of the said Act : Now, ; therefore, I, the said Governor-in-Chief, purI suant to such authority as aforesaid, do hereby further proclaim and declare that the number of weeks deemed to be necessary for the voyage of any such ship shall be as follows, that is to say :—: — For a voyage to any Islands \ — , in the Pacific Ocean J * IVe weeks * For a voyage to any place on ") I the Coast of North or South >• Nine weeks. America 3 Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at (L. S.) Auckland, in the Province of New Ulster, this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. G. GREY, Governor. By His Excellency's Command, C. A. Dillon, Civil Secretary. God Save the Queen !

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 17th July, 1849. HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief directs it to notified for general information, that a Lease, for mining purposes, bearing date the 23rd June, 1849, has been granted to Isaac Merrick, of Auckland, for the Term of Twenty-one Years, of all that Island known as and being the north-eastern Island of Moro Tiri, or the group of Islands known as the Hen and Chickens. By His Excellency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary*

TENDERS FOR TIMBER.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, July 17, 1849. I^HE TENDERS for supplying TIMBER, submitted in pursuance of the Notice in the Gazette of the 15th ultimo, having been found so high that it has been deemed unadvisable to accept any of them : FRESH TENDERS, in duplicate, will be received at this Office, until noon of Thursday, the 26th instant, from persons desirous of furnishing, for the Colonial Service, such quantities as may be required during the six months commencing on the Ist of August, 1849. Tenders to be sealed, and endorsed " Tender for Timber." By His Excellency's Command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary,

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the Estate of James Moncur, deceased.

PURSUANT to the Rule of this Honourable Court, the Creditors of the abovenamed Deceased are, on or before the Tenth day of October next, to come in and prove their Debts before Thomas Outhwaite, Esquire, Registrar of the said Court, at his office in the Court House, Queen-street, Auckland, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from all benefit arising from the said Estate. Thomas Outhwaite, Registrar. Supreme Court Office, Auckland, 10th July, 1849.