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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 19, 4 October 1842, Page 4

GOVERNMENT NOTICES. o— — Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, September 5, 1842. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct the subjoined exti'act, from a Dispatch received from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of the Sale of Crown Lands in this Colony, to be published for general information. By his Excellency’s Command, WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND. EXTRACT. Downing Street, February 14, 1842. “ Until you shall have received further instructions on this subject, you will be authorised to continue Sales by Auction, fixing the minimum price of Land for ordinary lots at no lower than twenty shillings per acre, and for Suburban and Town Lots at such a price as you may think expedient.” (Signed) STANLEY. Governor Hobson, &c. &c. &c. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, September 6, 1842. HIS.. Excellency the Governor has directed the Publication of the following passage from a Dispatch received from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of Emigration. By his Excellency’s Command, WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND. EXTRACT. Downing Street, March 15, 1842. “ The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have assented to my recommendation, for the appropriation to the purposes of Emigration to New Zealand, of the sum of <5612,,000, from the amount reported by you to have been realised by the Land Sales at Auckland; and have further intimated their readiness to authorise an advance of from the Commissariat Chest Fund, to defray the moiety of the expense of the Emigration under the Commissioners, which will be chargeable in this country.” (Signed) STANLEY, Governor Hobson, &c. &c. &c. ' -- • —I -i • Colonial Secretary's Office,, Auckland, September 14, 1842. HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, . thateHeFMajesty has been graciously pleased to r ""';; , Confirm and allow the following Ordinances passed by'the' Legislative -Council of this Colony : Session I, Nb. 4. / ‘{. for instituting arid regulating Courts of Generali and Quarter Sessions in the Colony, of ;New Zealand, arid to authorise the holding of Petty Sessions within the same, and for defining their respective powers, and determining the places at which the same shall be holden, and for repealing within the Colony of New Zealand certain Acts of the Governor and Council of New South Wales, adopted and now in force, within the said Colony of New Zealand.” - Session I, No. 5. , . ' “ An Ordinance for prohibiting the Distillation of Spirits within the : Colony of New Zealand.” By His Excellency’s Command, . WILLOUGHBY 1 SHORTLAND. " Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, "IS Excellency the Governor lms-been'pleased‘ to approy.e the apppmtmenjfc of, •,«;, , ' Alr. P. B, Titchenob., to be Clerk to the Magistrates at Nelson. : : J By his Excellency’s Command’, WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.