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the Legislative Council tnereof, was passed in the Fifteenth Year of the Keign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, viz : Session XI , No. 2, "An Oidinanre to authorize the Governor to apply a poition of the Land Fund arising within a Municipal District at the instance of the Corpoiation iheieof :" Now, therefore, I, the Governor-m- Chief of the New Zealand Islands, do hereby pioclann and make known to all wl>om ii may concern, that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to disallow the hefore mentioned Ordinance. This Proc'amation shall take effect from and after the day of the date hereof. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of I New Zealand, atGovernment House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this Twenty-ninth day of [ November, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty -two. G. GREY, Governor-in -Chief. By His Excellency's command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. Gon Save the Queen !

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 13th December, 1852. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor directs it to be notified for general information, that the GovKRNOR-iN-CniEF,in,ticcord-ance«.with the provisions of the Ordinance, No. 16, Session VII., lias been pleased to select and appoint Te 'Kerei, a chief of Mokau, to be a Native Assessor. By His Excellency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.

SMITHS' WORK, PAINTERV PLUMBERS' AND GLAZIER'S WORK.

•Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, December 1, 1852. ; rjIENDERS will be received at this Office J- until noon on Monday, the 20th instant, from persons desirous of contracting for the j performance of the above-named descriptions: of work for the service of the Colonial Government during the six months commencing on the Ist of January next. Information respecting the terms of payment, and other particulars, may be had on application to the Deputy Surveyor-General, from whom also forms of Tender may be obtainpd Security will be required for the due peiformance of the Contract, and the tenders should be accompanied by a notification of the consent ot the parties who, may be proposed us Suieties. Tenders to he in duplicate, sealed, and endorsed "Tender for f Smith's Work," or, as the case may be ] By His Excellency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary

PRINTING.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, December 1, 1852. TENDERS will be received at this office until noon on Monday, the 20th instant, for printing the Maori Messenger during the 12 months, commencing on the Ist of January next. Tenders must be in duplicate, sealed, and endorsed " Tenders for printing the Maori Messenger.' 1 Ftuth'er particulars may he obtained on application to the Native Secretary, By His Exce lency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, December ,7, 1852. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Govfrnou has been pleased to direct the republication of the following Notice for general information. By His Excellency's command, Andrrw Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.

Colonial Office, Cape of Good Hope, 24th August, 1852. HIS Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, has directed it to be notified that a Wooden Light House is about to be ceded on the Eastern extreme of the Bird Islands, in Algoa Bay, and that this Light House will, from and after the Ist of December next, show two white lights, 18 feet apart, and will be lit at sunset every evening and continue until sunrise on each following morning. By His Honour's command, (Signed) R. Soutiiey, .Acting Secretary to Government.

SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR BIRD ISLANDS LIGHT. Light House. — To show two lights, 18 feet apart, one 10 feet hipher than the other, latitude 33, 52. S. ; longitude, East of Greenwich, 20. 12. 50. B. Heights above mean water level. The Foundation 25 feet. To the Eaves 55 do. The centre of Tower. 60 do. The centte of Upper Light 70 do. The Plan. — 4 sid* d, each side at base 22 6 Each side at eaves. . . . 16. 0. Painting — The roof black, body of building while and black horizontal stripes. Lights. — The two lights will be laid on the line between them and the Doddington Rock, on which line one will be directly above the other, with a dark space between. Vibe — Extracts from Capt. Fishdourne's Sailing Directions, in Cape of Good Hope Directory for 1852, page 55. " Bird Islands. — The Bird Islands, situated in the eastern extremity of Algoa Bay, lie off Woody Cape, which is, as its name imports, covered with wood, except a small patch of sand at its summit, and is the only sea-board land that is so, which gives it, in contrast with that