NORTHERN DIVISION.

ALLAN O’NEILL, Esquire,
PATRICK DIGNAN, Esquire,
JAMES CARLTON HILL, Esquire,
PATRICK DONOVAN, Esquire.

THOS. BECKHAM,
Returning Officer.

Police Office, Auckland,
4th August, 1853.

I HEREBY DECLARE that the undermentioned Gentlemen have been duly elected to serve as Members of the Provincial Council for the undermentioned Districts, namely:—

PENSIONER SETTLEMENTS.

WILLIAM POWDITCH, Esquire,
FRANCIS CHALMERS LEWIS, Esquire,
JOSEPH BRESLIN, Esquire,
JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire.

SOUTHERN DIVISION.

JOSEPH NEWMAN, Esquire,
JAMES DILWORTH, Esquire,
WILLIAM INNES TAYLOR, Esquire,
JAMES MACKEY, Esquire.

JOHN JERMYN SYMONDS,
Returning Officer.

I HEREBY DECLARE that the undermentioned Gentlemen have been duly elected to serve as Members of the Provincial Council for the undermentioned District, namely:—

BAY OF ISLANDS.

JAMES BUSBY, Esquire, Victoria,
GEORGE CLARKE, Esquire, Waimate.
JAMES R. CLendon,
Returning Officer.

Russell, 14th July, 1853.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the Parliament holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such place or places within the limits of the Province, and such times for holding the first and every other Session of the Provincial Council as he may think fit.

Now, therefore, pursuant to the authority in me vested in that behalf, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby proclaim and declare that the first Session of the Provincial Council shall be holden at Auckland, and shall commence on Tuesday, the eighteenth day of October now next ensuing.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

THOS. BECKHAM,
Returning Officer.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Superintendent.

Auckland, 6th September, 1853.

The following Circular Despatches are published for general information.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Superintendent.

Civil Secretary’s Office, Wellington,
8th August, 1853.

SIR,—I am directed by Governor Sir George Grey to communicate to your Honor the following financial arrangements which have been provisionally and temporarily made by His Excellency, with the view of enabling the Provincial Governments efficiently to perform its duties until such time as the General Assembly shall have passed some enactment upon the subject.

It appears to His Excellency, from the nearest estimate which can be made with the means at his command, that the Revenue of the whole Colony of the Islands of New Zealand, after the costs of collection and management have been defrayed, will, for the present, amount to £62,000 per annum, and that the charges upon account of the Civil List or those imposed by Ordinances of the General Legislature—such for instance as the Interest upon Public Securities, the expenses of Savings Banks, the charges upon account of Education, &c., &c., &c.—will amount to a sum of about £21,000 per annum, or, one-third of the Net Revenue of the Colony.

The Collector of Customs will therefore receive instructions to make up his account at the close of each week, and then, having first deducted the amount necessary to defray the expenses of that Department, to pay over two-thirds of the Balance remaining in his hands to the Provincial Treasurer, or to the Provincial Account at the Union Bank of Australia, and to remit the remaining third of such Balance to the Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand.

This mode of adjustment which in every instance is perfectly accurate, as the Revenue of the Province will from time to time vary, as will also the proportion which the Civil List and the expenses of the General Government bear to the whole Revenue of New Zealand which may now be expected rapidly to increase. Consequently the above arrangement cannot be considered as being final.

When, therefore, the Accounts of the Revenue of each quarter reach the Treasurer of New Zealand, a final Account will be made out showing the Gross Revenue of each Province, the charges on account of