GOVERNMENT NOTICES.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 23, 12 September 1840, Page 2

GOVERNMENT NOTICES.

[from the "bay of islands gazette."]

The Lieutenant Governor desires it to be notified, that the Lands of Mangonui have been purchased for Her Majesty thfe Queen, and he therefore cautions the public against building, cutting timber, or trespassing thereon. Those persons who may have established themselves "on these lands either by building, or enclosing grounds for cultivation, will be permitted to hold such tenements or lands undisturbed until the Commission to be hereafter appointed shall decide upon the rights of the respective parties. All who desire the privilege of cutting down timber on the said Lands, may obtain permission for a limited period from the Lieutenant Governor on payment of a small fee by way of ac'know*ledgement. Given at Mangonui, this 24tfe day of June, 1840. By His Excellency's command, John Johnson, J. P., Acting Police Magistrate.

Colonial Secretary's Office, July 1-, 1 840. — Notice is hereby given, that the Post Office for Letters for Kororarika is, by the consent of Mr. Clayton, for the present established at that gentleman's store. By His Excellency's command, (for the Colonial Secretary) Jas. Stuart Freeman.

'Colonia 1 ! Secretary's Officf, Rus^ sell, July 15, 1840. — His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor directs it to be notified, that the Islands of New Zealand being now included within the territory of New South Wales, a copy of the letters patent under the privy seal of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, dated the 18th day of Jan., in the sixth year of his reign, erecting all the territories and islands comprised within or dependant upon New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, and Western Australia, into a bishop's see or diocese, styled the bishoprick of Australia, has been, in with the decision of the executive council of New South Wales, as approved by his Excellency Sir George Gipps, Governor and Captain General of that colony, transmitted to this government'; and that the full power and authority of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of the said diocese is extended to these Islands. And the said copy of the said letters patent have accordingly been dtdy regestered and lodged in the archives of this colony. — By his Excellency's command, (for the Colonial Secretary,) Jas. Stuart Freeman.

Geo. Cooper, Esq., J.P., and Receiver of Intestate Estates for New Zealand, under notices dated Bth July, has called upon all persons having claims against the estates of Capt. David Salmon, late of Maturoa ; Wm. Johnstone Small, late of Sydney ; and George Peat, late master of the schooner " Felix," to prove the same. He has also required all persons indebted to the above estates 'to pay the same, within 14 days after the date of the notices.