GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 22d November, 1845. His Excellency the Lieutenant- Govern or feels much concerned that it has become his duty to notify that a despatch has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, announcing that her Majesty has been pleased to disallow an Ordinance enacted by, the' Governor of TTew Zealand) with the advice and consent of the Ee-. gislative Council of that Colony, session iii., 7 Victoria, No. 4, intituled, " An Ordinance to authorise the Governor of New Zealand to issue Debentures, and to make the same a Legal Tender." - ' The Lieutenant-Governor will lose no time in making the best arrangements that the- means at his disposal will admit of, for obviating the difficulties and inconvenience which, in the present state of the circulating medium ; of- the colony, may result from the disallowance of the' above-mentioned ordinance. By command, • Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 24th November, 18£5. > His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor directs it to be notified, in reference to 'the disal- ' lowance of the ordinance' authorizing the Governor of New Zealand to issue debentures, and to make the same a legal tender, that; in- all cases in which debentures for an amount of not less than seventy pounds are tendered at the Colonial Treasury, one-fourth of that amount will be at once paid in specie, and a debenture for the remainder and for the interest due upon the debentures so tendered will be issued one week subsequently. The debentures thus issued will bear interest at the rate of eight per cent.
per annum, and will be payable at any time at the option ofthe Local Government, after three months' notice in the Government Gazette. ' By command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. [Another notice in the same Gazette states that the debentures in circulation amount to the sum of £36,814 : 19 : 4.— Ed.]
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 67, 17 January 1846, Page 4
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312GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 67, 17 January 1846, Page 4
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