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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 570, 18 January 1851, Page 4

[From the Governmet Gazette, 14th January.] Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, Bth January, 1851, TTIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER-NOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Despatch, -with its enclosures, for general information. By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary. No. 48. Downing Street, sth August, 1850. Sir, I transmit to you a correspondence which has taken place between myself and the Directors of the New Zealand Company. 2. You will observe that in consequence of the Directors having given this notice on the ,sth of July, the last day allowed by the Act, it has been impossible to make any previous arrangements respecting the mode of the transfer of their lands to the Crown. Those lands actually became demesne lands on the sth July, by virtue of the Act, and on the same day the Instructions of 184fi, respecting the Crown lands, became again in force in the Southern Province. 3. Under these circumstances, it is not possible for me as yet to convey to you more than the general direction, that it is the wish of Her Majesty’s Government that any bond fide dealings which may have taken place with those lands, since the sth of July, under the management of the Company’s Agents, and which may be at variance with the Instructions in question,, should be, as far as possible, respected, and such measures taken to legalize them as may appear necessary, referring to me for directions whenever it does not appear to you that the local authorities possess the ne.cessary powers for this purpose. 4. As the cessation of the Company’s powers on the sth of July was a contingency