[From the Government Gazette, March 23.] Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 22nd March, 1849.

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[From the Government Gazette, March 23.] Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 22nd March, 1849.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTE- . • NANT - GOVERNOR 'has ' been pleased to direct the publication,' for general

information, of the following membrandum df an agreement, respecting the Cemetery Reserve in the Town of "Wellington, enwfied into by the Lord Bishop of New Zealand and the other representatives - of the various sections of the public interestedtherein. ** „ His Excellency takes this opportunity of 'expressing the ' high sense 'entertained by himself and the ' Executive Council of the liberal and' conciliatory spirit manifested on the I 'present occasion by all the parties to the arrangement alluded r to, and which' mainly contributed to' its' satisfactory tionclus'ion. By His Excellency's Command, i ' <• Alfred .Domett, Colonial Secretary.

Memorandum of an arrangement between the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop ' of New Zealand on behalf of the Church of • England, and the ReV. J. Woodward, the Rev. J. Inglfe, the Rev. J. Watkin, W. Lyon, Esq., and R. Hart, Esq., on behalf of the Non-Episcopalian portion of the community of Wellington, entered into this 21st day of March, 1849, in the presence and under the sanction of His Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor and the Executive Council of the Province — for the purpose of adjusting the difficulties which have arisen in connexion with the Cemetery question, viz. : — i -" It is unanimously agreed upon and consented to by all the parties present, on their own behalf and on behalf of those whom they represent — First, That the Lord Bishop shall resign his claim to the seven and a half acres awarded as a Cemetery to the Church of England by the Board appointed in October, 1842, to appropriate the Public Reserves. Secondly, That a new arrangement shall be now entered into for the redistribution of the land set apart by the New Zealand Company for Cemetery purposes, arid this redistribution shall be based upon the appropriation made in the year 1844, by direction of Governor Fitzroy ; and the partition of the ground as then made and shown on the map now produced, and signed by Major Richmond and Mr Brees in 1844, shall be retained — that is to say, the portions marked Nos. 2 and 3 on the said map shall belong and be granted to the Church of England exclusively — the portion marked No. 4 shall belong and be granted to the Jews — and the portion marked No. 1, and another portion having no 1 number attached to it on the said map, biit being the residue of the Cemetery:grou'nd, shall belong and be granted to Trustees, to be held for and on behalf of the Public at large as a Public Cemetery : TfeiRDLY, That the Lord Bishop shall further, out of consideration and respect for the natural feelings and wishes of those parties who, having relatives buried in portion No. 2, may wish to' be buried there themBelves,. consent, oil behalf "of the Church of England, to .bind himself and his successors in, office to allow the interment, and to do no act: which would bar the interment, of parties, who are interested on the* ground above mentioned in that part'%f portion No. 2 in which their relatives are buried ; such interments to be conducted, by the Ministers of the denomination to which they respectively belong, and with the usual services (being Christian) which the discipline of-^their respective Churches requires. This concession to extend, during a period of 30 years, to those individuals only (and their relatives in the degrees of affinity within which marriage is prohibited) who, having their feelings interested as aforesaid, shall have their names inserted in a schedule to be attached to a< legal covenant to be entered into by the Lord Bishop of New Zealand, for securing to them the rights of sepulture, -with minis-, tration of their own clergy as aforesaid, on that part of portion No; 2 as above-men-tioned. Read over and' assented to in the presence of tip Lieutenant-iGrovernor and of the Executive' Council, and in 'the presence of all the parties named in the arrangement, this 22nd day of March; 1849. ~'\ ; "(Signed) " E.. Eyre. ,