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by " claiming only from his Excellency's justice due 
" allowance for a conscientious difference of opinion, 
** and his protection for their fellow-subjects destined 
" for the proposed settlement ;" a manly appeal, the 
long neglect of which has been too often charged 
against the local Government. 
Captain Hobson had at length condescended to spend 
twenty-seven days among that part of his population 
which he had himself officially described as " from 
" their rank, their numbers, and their wealth, by far 
*' the most important in the colony." 
His further doings, during this short stay, may be 
gathered from a list of proclamations published by his 
command in the Wellington Gazette ; some framed on 
the spot; others re-publications of those promulgated 
at Auckland on the 26th of July, but which were still 
almost unknown here on account of the distance and 
the unfrequency of communication. 
These proclamations gave official notice of the as- 
sumption by the Governor of the powers of Vice- Ad- 
miral ; of his approval of the town of Wellington, 
and a definition of its boundaries ; of the approval of the 
jail as a common jail (and a very common jail it was) ; 
of the establishment of bonded stores ; of the applica- 
tion of the New South Wales Police Act for towns to 
New Zealand ; of the authority of the Crown Prose- 
cutor to prosecute in his own name ; of the institution 
of an overland mail to TVanganui ; of the tenders to be 
made for the building of a pound ; of the illegality of 
squatting on the Public or on the Native Reserves ; of the 
establishment of a Court of Requests ; of a description 
of the Reserves made by the Crown for public purposes ; 
and of a prohibition against the cutting of timber in 
the belt of land reserved for the ornament of the town 
and recreation of the townspeople. 
