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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 104, 28 July 1843, Page 2

PROCLAMATION By his Excellency WILLOUGHBY SIIORTLAND, Esquire, the Officer administering the Government of iho Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice Admirkl of the same, Sic., §c., %c. HEREAS, it is essential to the well-being of this colony, that confidence and good feeling should continue to exist between the two races of its Inhabitants, and that the Native owners of the soil should have no reason to doubt the good faith of Her Majesty’s solemn assurance that their territorial rights would be recognised and respected. Now, therefore, I, the Officer administering the Government, do hereby publicly warn all persons claiming land in this colony, in all cases where the claim is denied or disputed by the original Native owners, from exercising acts of owner-ship thereon, or otherwise prejudicing the question of title to the same, until the question of ownership shall have been heard and determined by one of Her Majesty’s Commissioners appointed to investigate Claims to Land in New Zealand. Given under my Hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Auckland, this twelfth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three. WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND, The Officer Administering the Government By his Excellency’s Command, (For the Colonial Secretary), WILLIAM CONNELL. God save the Queen !

PROCLAMATION. W r HEREAS divers Persons in the Borough of Wellington have unlawfully assembled together for the purpose of bein trained and drilled to arms, and of practisin Military Exercises : Now, I have it in command from Hrs Excellency the Officer Administering ' the Government, TO GIVE NOTICE, that if any Persons whatever shall henceforth so unlawfully assemble, for the purposes aforesaid, or any-of them, in the Borough of Wellington, or elsewhere, in the Southern District of New Ulster, the assemblage of such Persons will be dispersed, and the Persons so unlawfully assembling will be proceeded against according to law. Dated this 26th July, 1843. M. RICHMOND, Chief Police Magistrate. to to

WELLINGTON RIFLE CLUB. f gIHE Members of the above Club will meet every I. Tuesday and Friday at Kaiwarra, at 3 o’clock, v f.m. , for Ball Practice. Wellington, July 28, 1843. NOTI C E. A GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders of the COLONIST Newspaper will be held in the Commercial Tavern, oh Saturday first, 29th July, to take into consideration matters of importance a full attendance is earnestly requested. July 28, 1843.

C A R D. MR. MONTEITH, Surgeon, LAMBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON. FOR THE RIVER HUTT. N' Wednesday next, and every succeeding Wednesday, the BLAGK WARRIOR , Houghton, will take in goods for the above place. Persons shipping by the above vessel are requested to send them to the Custom-House wharf by 12 o’clock on Tuesday. July 28, 1843. In the County Court of Wel-' unoton, in the Southern District of New Ulster, New Zealand.

JOSEPH RELPH, Deceased Intestate. PURSUANT toihe'Rule of this Honorable Court, the Creditors of the above-named deceased, are, on or before the Eighth Day of October next, to eome in and prove the Debts before Robert Rodger Strang, Esq., Clerk of the said Court, at his Office in the Court House, Wellington, or in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from all benefit arising from the said Estate. ROBERT R. STRANG, Clerk of the County Court, and Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court. '^Wellington,-July-27, 1843.