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PETITION OF LAZARUS BERLOWITZ.

Presented to the House of Representatives April 25, and ordered to be printed April 28, 1856.

To THE Honokable the House of Repbesentatives of the Colony of New Zealand The humble Petition of LAZARUS BERLOWITZ, late of Melbourne, at present sojourning at A\ ellington, and for some time past having at intervals resided at Nelson, New Zealand, Watchmaker and Jeweller, a native of Poland, but naturalized in the Colony of Victoria, respectfully sheweth— of g«S°L™£ Mr ~ hisUr rCS!,CCto ' ,le »form Petitioner', being a _ , , r 1 1 ! lat he set , sail England in the month of October, 1851, and in February following arrived at - elbourne, where he had a shop, and carried on business till October, 1854. " ° also llmbllli 1 / c ° n ® iderable difficulty, as well to understand the English language as also to make himself understood by persons speaking only that language. ' whici: I tZ!; 0 i?^l^:t er he .took his passage from Melbourne to Wellington, for Bertheau, a native of Denmark, being the master.^ 3 ' Captam Mackenzie, and afterwards Captain do an^hing 6 furtheTthaa U p!nr Ifo1for o the^trans"t n /° essit y for on shipboard being required to SSS'ZdS'nts.ie™ o'*0'* °r** T ™ *££*$ before board that good* nitrepoS o r lKS?!,1 ,*• «™r liable to be forfeited. Of dl X7e Cg,°t ™ feno^nf' """ ™" fe " ° r re J» rt ' tra„^\"Sl^' b /J;?- a y;° m «?, £<%>,?> fae»p.n.i„ and not to pay both for th. i • ® , , passenger, as well as at the same time pay for his ■maßao-p w OOTVI r • conceal.' ~ & forfeiture of goods, to make renort to the k.inmc « f informed) required, under pain of