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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 640, 20 September 1851, Page 4

Rate, one-third for the Sea Rate, and the remaining third for the Colonial Inland Rate.

Printed Books, &c., (except Deeds. Law Proceedings, and Law Papers) sent through the Post, under the Regulations here proposed, shall be subject in all respects to the same restrictions as are hereinafter made with respect to Newspapers. NEWSPAPERS. Printed Newspapers shall be conveyed by the Post free of Postage, provided they be sent without a cover, or in a cover open at the sides, and there be no writing thereon, or upon the cover of the same, except the name and address of the person to whom sent, and that no paper or thing be enclosed in or with any such paper. And every paper or packet which shall be contrary in any respect to the conditions hereby required to be observed, shall be charged with treble the duty of Postage to which it would have been liable as a letter. Printed Prices Current and Commercial Lists, not exceeding two ounces in weight, shall be forwarded through the Post under the same regulations and privileges as Newspapers, ARMY AND NAVY LETTERS. Non-Commissioned Officers, Captains, Stewards, Seamen, and Soldiers, may send and receive letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight by the Post, on their own private concerns only, while they are employed on her Majesty’s service, at the rate of one penny for each letter. And with respect to letters sent or received by any such privileged persons, the following conditions shall be observed, that is to say,—the Postage of each letter (unless sent from parts beyond the seas) shall be paid on being put into the Post Office, and upon such letter shall be subscribed the name of the writer and his class or description in the vessel, regiment, corps, or detachment, to which he belongs, and signed by the officer having at the time the command of the vessel, or of the regiment, corps, or detachment to which the privileged person belongs. Whenever the letters sent or received by any such privileged persons shall be sent from parts beyond the seas, without the said Postage of one penny being prepaid, every such letter shall be charged to the party receiving the same with a rate of two pence, and any letters received by the Post, under this regulation, by any such privileged persons, which may have been redirected shall not be charged with any Postage for such redirection. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Govern(L.S.) ment House, at Wellington, in the Province.of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this nineteenth day of September, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. G. Grey. Governor-in-Chief. By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary. God Save the Queen.

PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Piovinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. "V/VTHEREAS, it is expedient that so much ’ of the District of New Plymouth as s included within the boundaries hereinafter described, be divided into Hundreds. Now therefore I, the Governor-in-Chief of the Islands of New Zealand aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare the same to be divided into two several Hundreds, to be called respectively the Hundred of New Plymouth and the Hundred of Omata; the resoective boundaries whereof are hereinafter‘particularly set forth, and are described on a map or plan deposited in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands at WeiiingDescription of the Boundaries of the Hundred of the New Plymouth. The Southwestern boundary commences at highwater mark at Paritutu Rock, and proceeds inland along the Paritutu Line on