[From the Government Gazette, January 12.] PROCLAMATION.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 778, 15 January 1853, Page 4

[From the Government Gazette, January 12.] 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 Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c, &c, &c. WHEREAS, by an Ordinance passed by the Governor-in-Ohief of the New Zealand Islands, by and with the consent of the Legislative Council thereof, intituled, "An Ordinance for the Naturalization of certain persons in the Islands of New Zealand, Session XXI, No. 4, it is enacted, that all and singular the persons who shall be declared to come within the operation of such Ordinance, by any Proclamation to be issued «in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor,-in-Chief, shall be deemed and taken, until the next Session of the General Legislature within the Islands of New Zealand,>y»^be natural-born subjects of Her Majesty :*P^ Now therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby proclaim and declare, that the persons whose names are underwritten shall be deemed and taken to be natural-bom subjects of Her Majesty from the date set opposite their names respectively, until the next Session c¥ the General Legislature of the Islands of New Zealand, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as if their names had been inserted in the schedule annexed to the said Ordinance : — Gustav yon Gartner, Ist January, 1852. .Charles Hopktnson, 30th November, 1852. This Proclamation shall take effect from and after the date hereof. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this

eighth day of January, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. G. GKEY, Govemor-in-Chief. By His Excellency's command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. God save the Queen !

Civil Secretary's Office, Wellington, sth January, 1853. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct the following additional despatch, in reference to the discovery of a Gold Field at Auckland, to be published for general information. Alfked Domett, Civil Secretary.

Auckland, December ]5, 1852. Sib, — In order to furnish your Excellency with the fullest and latest information connected with the Gold Field at Coromandel, I beg to enclose a copy of a report just received from the Commissioner, together with extracts from yesterday's and this day's Auckland newspapers, which not only confirms my communication of the 13th inst., No. 183, but shews more clearly the feelings of the public as to the value of the discovery. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, E. H. Wiktard, Lt.-.Gov. His Excellency Sib George Gbey, X.C.8., Governor-in-Chief, &c, &c, &c, Wellington.

Auckland, 14th December, 1852. Sib, — By direction of his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and as a general summary of intelligence, to the latest date, of the working of the Coromandel Gold Field, I have the honor to report that on Saturday last, the 11th instant, the last day of my visiting the workings, the majority of the diggers professed themselves satisfied with the yield of Gold at their respective pits, and with their prospects for the ensuing summer. From the amount of Gold which 1 saw washed by the parties named in the margin,* I believe their expectations are well founded. Having found that the boundary line of the Government district to the northward did not include the whole of the lands of the Patukirikiri tribe, as it was purported to do, I last week, with the chief Pita, of that tribe, cut a new boundary, four chains to the north of the former one ; and on the strip of land so taken into the Government district, obtained possession of the rich Gold deposit which the parties of Messrs. Cook, Coolahan, and Bryan had been obliged to relinquish, and which they are now working wish great success. The chief Paul of the Matewaru tribe, allowed that the new boundary did not encroach on his land, but put forward Hakapa, a native of the Fatukirikiri, who had married into his tribe, as an owner of and claimant to a piece of ground innning through the whole northern margin of the district, and whose claim, if substantiated, would have much diminished the present available Gold Field. With the assistance of Mr. White, the Interpreter, and with Pita, of" the Patukirikiri, after two days' discussion of the question on the ground, I succeeded in establishing the sole right of Pita to the land, to the limit of the extended boundary : and the last act of Paul was to make holes and marks on the line, with his own hand, in acknowledgment of its accuracy. On the resumed diggings, the parties named in the marginf washed in the earlier part of last week, the quantity set forth, and are continuing their work with every prospect of finding eventually the matrix Gold, which the nuggets now obtained indicate to be in the vicinity of the workings. The deposit at this place appears to be in a slip of earth on the side of a wooded mountain rising fiora the Kapanga stream. The slip has filled with a mass of decayed vegetation, gravel, and mould, the former hollow of a small rivulet, and in this/ at a depth of about S\ feet, in what is denominated a "dry diggings," the Gold is found. The course of the slip is for some distance discernible on the hill-side above the diggings, but the density of the undergrowth prevents the exact locality whence it has slided being apparent. From the very angular character of the nuggets, and their sharpness of fracture, it is evident that they have not rolled more than a few hundred yards to their present place pf deposit; and I believe that the diggers will be able to trace the slip to the auriferous quartz rock whence the deposit has been abraded by the weight of the landslip. I am happy to have the honour farther to inform you, that I discovered the dry bed of a former water-course, running for a considerable distance parallel and near.to theKapanga stream, and at one place approaching to within a few yards of that stream. On pointing out this place to the Messrs. Ring, they at once, with a day's labour, cut a lead through the intervening bank, and diverted the course of the Kapanga, the bed of which is now for a distance of upwards of a quarter of a mile dry, and ready for excavation. The Messrs. Ring had commenced digging therein on Friday last, with every prospect of success through the summer. At the Waiau (Mataawai) the Gold was not so plentiful as it had been, owing to the floods having filled up with drift sand, &c, the pits of the diggers. The brothers Crauford had, however, obtained there the largest and best nugget yet found on the Gold Field, together with a fair quantity of dust, and were very confident of continued success. A general — perhaps a

* Coolahan and party of 7. Creighton and Cook. Brjan and party of 5. Messrs. Crawford, Coyle, and Ready. Mr. Stephenson. •f Cook and Creighton, in five days, 7J oz. of dust and fine nuggets, and 11* oz. of coarse miggets, about one quarter of latter, and one half of former being Gold.* Coolahan and party of 7, from 2\ to 5 oz. of dust and nuggets daily, when working. Bryan and party of 4, working in adjacent pit to Coolahan, produce, when working, similar in pro» portion to numbers. * Brought by myself to Auckland.

temporary — feeling of disappointment with respect to the Waiau existed in the minds of the diggers at that place. It was, however, reported that good dry diggings had been found near to the source of the stream. I snbjoin a list in the margin* of the -various parties who were working at the date of my leaving the Gold Fields. Many of these had been much employed in " prospecting," and all at the Kapanga had been interrupted by their diggings being for a time without the Government boundary. I am negotiating with the Natives of the Manaia for the extension of the Government, district in that direction, and hope, on my return, to be able to include within the available Gold Field the spot at that harbour where the Messrs. Ring found the indications which they reported as being so promising. From the very rich surface indications at Kapanga and the Waiau, and the workings of ! the diggers have not yet been to a sufficient depth to develope aught else, I am confident that very rich and extensive deposits and veins of gold-bearing quartz must exist at greater depths under the surface, and which an increased number of diggers, properly equipped, and among whom may be some experienced Fort Phillip and Californian miners, may develop in the course of the dry season that may now be expected. I have, &c, (Signed) Charles Hbapht, Gold Commissioner. The Honorable the Colonial Secretary.

* At Kapanga. Men. Messrs. Coolaban's party 7 „ Cook and Creighton 2 „ Bryan, &c, 4 „ Ring's (prospecting, &c.) . . . . - 4 17 At Waiau. De Thierry's 2 Coyleand Ready .*. 2 Crauford's 2 Humphries 4 Nasmith 1 Unthank 4 Williams and Owen.. 2 Jones and Party ... t 3 Total at Waiau...... 20 At Eapanga 17 Total diggings .37 Parties who had arrived at the Gold Field, but had not commenced work . .r 8 ' Now on their way ..27

Civil Secretary's Office, Wellington, 6th January, 1853. TITITH reference to a Notice, dated Colonial ' " Secretary's Office, Wellington, 11th August, 1851, relative to the issue of Tobacco, duty free, for sheepwashing, his Excellency the Go-vernor-in-Chief has been pleased to direot that the following regulation on the subject should be published for general information. By his Excellency's command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. At any Warehousing Port within the Islands of New Zealand, the Collector, or Sub-Col-lector, of Customs is authorized to issue certain quantities of Tobacco free of duty, for Sheep washing, upon the application of any I Sheepowner, or his known agent, who shall first have taken a declaration in the manner hereafter 6et forth. The Collector may then issue a warrant to -the Locker to damage the Tobacco, -by having it thoroughly saturated with Spirits of Tar or Turpentine, and then deliver it from the warehouse free of duty.