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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 589, 26 March 1851, Page 4

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 21st March, 1851. HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTE-NANT-GOVERNOR has been pleaed to appoint William H. Reynolds, Esquire, of Otago, William M'Leod Bannatyne, George Hunter, and George Moore, Esquires, o f 'Wellington, to be Magistrates of the Province of New Munster. By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett. Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 21st March, 1851. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER-NOR-IN-CHIEF has directed it to be made known that the notice appointing a Commissioner of Crown Lands at Otago, which appeared in the Government Gazette, of the 21st February last, has been cancelled, and that the following is hereby substituted, William Cargill, Esquire, to be Coramissioner of Crown Lands at Otago. The appointment to have effect from the Ist January, 1851. By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 20th March, 1851. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER-NOR-TN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint Edward Wright, Esquire, to be Deputy Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the District of Canterbury. By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 21st March, 1851. rPHE TENDERS for executing certain — repairs to the Road at Duck Creek, between London’s Public House and Pauatahanui, submitted in pursuance of the Gazette Notice of the 14th ultimo, being considered too high, have been declined. Fresh offers will therefore be received at this Office for the above service on or before the 2nd April next. lhe Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Survey Office. by His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, * Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 21st March, 1851. TTIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER-NOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct that the following Despatches, &c., be published for general information* *- By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary.. (No. 50.) Downing Street, 13th August, 1850. Sir, I have not failed to bestow my most careful consideration on your Despatches of the numbers and dates specified in the margin,* explaining the grounds on which you had been induced to propose to the Legislature an Ordinance “ for quieting Titles to Land in the Province of New Ulster,” and sending a copy of that Ordinance itself, to be submitted to her Majesty. 2. The effect of this important measure is to confirm to the numerous Land Claimants under direct purchases from the Natives, the large tracts of land to which they assert a right, or in cases where this may be impossible from the previous rights of the Natives themselves, to confer upon the European claimants an equivalent out of the general landed territory of the Crown. It is needless xor me to recapitulate on this occasion the slight grounds, in equity, of many of the claims in question, or the iniunous tendency to the public interest of finally placing in the possession of individuals such extensive tracts of land for which they have mostly given but a trifling consideration. These views have often been stated * 101. 24th July, 1849. 131. 3rd October, 1849. 158. 28t'ii November, 1549.