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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 714, 16 February 1853, Page 4

(©obcrnmeiu ®n?ette. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland, 15th February, 1853. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Go-vernor has been pleased to direct that the following Proclamation, Despatches, &c., &c.,be republished for general information. By His Excellency’s command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Sir GeorgeG.rey, a Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Go-vernor-in-Chief and Coramander-in-Chief in and ov,«rthe Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. WHEREAS by “The Passengers Act, 1852,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any of Her Majesty’s possessions abroad, by any Proclamation to be by him from time to time issued for that purpose, to declare what shall be deemed, for the purposes of that Act, to be the length of the voyage of any ship carrying passengers from such possession to any other place whatsoever : Now therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Islands, pursuant to such authority as aforesaid, Do hereby proclaim and declare that, for the purposes of the above named Act of Parliament the length of the voyage for a “ Passenger ship’’proceeding from the Islands of New Zealand, to the undermentioned places respectively, shall be determined by the following scale (that is to say) — Given, under my hand,and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this thhteenlh day of December, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-two. G. GREY, Governot?dn-Cluef. By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. God Save the Queen ! Civil Secretary’s Office, Wellington, December 29th, 1852. HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Ghief has been pleased to direct that the following Despatch relative to the “Passengers Act,” of the 15th and 16th Vic. cap. 44, should be published for general information. Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. ( Circular.) Downing-street, 12th August, 1852. Sir —My attention having been lately drawn to a case in which an emigrant vessel hound for Victoria, appears to have taken some additional patties on board after having finally cleared at the Port of Liverpool, I have to instruct you, as private emigration has now so largely increased to the Australian Colonies, to impress upon the Emigration Officers, at the out-Ports of the Colony under your Government, the duty of strictly watching all Emigrant ships which may arrive, and of ascertaining whether the provisions of the Passengers Act have been duly observed on the voyage, and that there are no emigrants on board ivho are not on the Master’s List, nor more than the ship can legally carry. I enclose for your information, and in order that Emigration Officers under you may have the means of making themselves acquainted with its provisions, the accompanying copies of the new Act, which will come into operation on the Ist of October next.

I have, &c. f (Signed) John S. Pakington. Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.8., &c. &c.. ■Civil Secretary’s Office, Wellington, December 29th, 1852. HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chibf has been pleased to direct that the following Despatches in reference to the desertion of Seamen from Merchant Vessels, be published for general information. Alfred Doueit, Civil Secretary. ( Circular.)

Downing-street, 30th June, J852. Sir-~vl transmit herewith, for your information and guidance, the copy of a letter and of its enclosures, from the Secretary to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, upon the subject of a doubt which had arisen in •the Colony of Victoria, whether a Merchant Seaman, who had been convicted and imprisoned for Desertion from his ship, was not thereby released from his engagements. You will perceive from the accompanying copy of a Report from the Law Officers of the Crown, that they are of opinion that a Merchant Seaman, is not leleased from his articles by being once punished for desertion. I have, &c., (Signed) John S. Pakington. governor Sir George Grey, K.C.8., &c., &c , &c,