NOTICE

Tenders for the execution of such Printing as may be required for the service of the Provincial Government during the six calendar months commencing on the 1st of July next.

Tenders must be in duplicate, sealed, and endorsed "Tender for Printing."

Specifications may be seen, and further particulars obtained, on application at this office.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Superintendent.

Amount of the Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 29th day of April, 1854.

Amount of Notes in circulation on the 29th day of April, 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:

£5 and upwards ... £13,810
Under £5 ... 17,246

Total ... £31,056

Total amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz.:

Gold ... £16,457
Silver ... 564

Total ... £17,021

I, Henry St. Hill, being the Acting Manager of the said Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the notes in circulation and of the coins held by the said office, as required by the Ordinance, No. 16, Sess. 8.

HENRY ST. HILL,
Acting Manager.

Colonial Bank of Issue,
Wellington, 29th April, 1854.

The sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds (£15,000) sterling, has been invested under the Warrant of His Excellency the Governor, in the public funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

H. St. H.

NOTICE

WHEREAS, the blocks of land called Mangawai and Ruakaka, containing about 55,000 acres, situated near Whangarei, have been recently purchased from the natives.

Notice is hereby given that applications will be received at this office on and after the tenth day of July, 1854, from persons desirous of purchasing any part of the said blocks at 10s. per acre.

If more than one application for the same piece of land should be received during the usual office hours on the day above-mentioned, they will be regarded as simultaneous applications, and the land offered for sale by public auction, in accordance with the regulations of the 4th March, 1853.

CHAS. W. LIGAR,
Surveyor-General.

Surveyor-General's Office,
Auckland, 2nd June, 1854.

Commissioner of Crown Lands' Office,
Auckland, 6th June, 1854.

THE following person having applied for a defined Run, the description of the Run, claimed now lies at this office:

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

IMPOUNDED

at the Public Pound, Hundred of Auckland, near Hobson's Bridge, for trespassing in an enclosed paddock at Remuera.

One Young Bay Mare, not branded.

If not claimed, to be sold at the pound, at noon on the 28th June, instant, agreeable to the provisions of the Impounding Ordinance, Vic. 11, Sess. 8, No. 6.

JOSEPH OSBORNE,
Pound-keeper.

Auckland, June 5th, 1854.

IMMIGRATION

ASSISTED PASSAGES

His Excellency the Officer administering the Government directs it to be notified for general information that the License of Hannibal Marks, as a Pilot for the Port of Manukau, has been cancelled, and a License has been issued to William Champion, appointing him to be a Pilot for that Port.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland 6th June, 1854.

THE following extract from a letter received from the Colonial Secretary is published for general information:

"I have received a letter from the Secretary to the Land and Emigration Commissioners, stating that communications had been sent to the parties in England whose friends here had requested that they might be sent out to this country, and it was proposed to despatch...