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As I am unwilling to forestall opinions
which the Electors of the Province may so
soon be called upon to express, I shall restrict
myself to laying before the Council a Bill for
the further appropriation of the Revenue.

As the room in which the sittings of the
Provincial Council have heretofore been held
will be occupied, during the ensuing Session,
by the Representatives of the Colony, it will
be my duty, meanwhile, to provide the most
convenient accommodation for the Council
that can be obtained.

I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM BROWN,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
16th July, 1855.

THE subjoined Correspondence, supple-
mentary to that which was published in
the “Provincial Government Gazette,” No.
13, dated May 9th last, is published for
general information.

Wm. Brown,
Superintendent.

Auckland, July 16, 1855.

Sir,—I have the honour to transmit for
your information a copy of correspondence
with the General Government having refer-
ence to Petitions (a copy enclosed herewith)
for a Provincial dissolution.

I remain, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM C. DALDY.

To His Honor
The Superintendent.

The Petition of the undersigned inhabitants
of the Province of Auckland,

Sheweth,

That your petitioners have observed with
alarm and deep regret the injury to the Pro-
vince, the retardation of progress, and the
general confusion that has resulted from the
antagonism which arose during the last session
between the Provincial Council and the
Superintendent.

That your petitioners, without offering any
opinion as to which party was to blame,
would express their firm conviction that ano-
ther Session of the same Council can only
tend to a similar result, in even an aggravated
form.

That your petitioners believe that the sole
constitutional remedy is an appeal to the
country, by which the power of relieving the
Province from difficulty is placed in the hands
of the people themselves.

That your petitioners have been made
aware, by your Excellency’s answer to the
Superintendent’s application for a dissolution,
that your Excellency objects to a general
election taking place immediately before the
completion of the Electoral Roll for the year,
and that they submit to the decision that has
been arrived at by your Excellency.

That as your Excellency’s objection will ter-
minate in the course of next month, by the
completion of the Electoral Roll for the year,
and as it is of importance to the well-being of
the Province that the present difficulty should
be overcome without unnecessary delay, your
petitioners would ask permission to observe
that your Excellency, while maintaining your
own decision, will be able to obviate delay by
so timing a dissolution that the writs may be
running during the intervening time, so that
there may be no impediment to the election of
Superintendent coming off almost immedi-
ately after the completion of the roll, and to
the election of members of the Provincial
Council coming off within a few days further
time.

Your petitioners therefore pray that a Pro-
vincial dissolution may take place at such
an early date as may admit of a Provincial
Election being held on the completion of the
Electoral Roll for the year 1855-56.

And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
2nd July, 1855.

Sir,—In acknowledging the receipt of your
letter of the 25th ultimo, covering certain
Petitions praying for the dissolution of the
present Council of this Province, I am directed
by His Excellency the Officer administering
the Government to inform you that on the
receipt of the supplementary petitions which
you allude to, the subject matter of these docu-
ments will be taken into consideration of the
Government.

I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

To W. C. Daldy, Esq.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
13th July, 1855.

Sir,—I have the honor, by the direction
of His Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government, to acknowledge the receipt
of a Petition, bearing seven hundred and sixty
seven signatures,—forwarded in your letters
of the 25th ultimo and the 11th instant, pray-
ing for an immediate dissolution of the Auck-
land Provincial Council.

In reply, I am directed to state that His
Excellency feels as much regret, as the Peti-
tioners can, that the Province of Auckland
should be suffering injury from the confusion
into which its affairs have fallen, and would be
equally glad with them to put an end to such
an unfortunate state of things, but that, even
if His Excellency were satisfied that a dissolu-
tion would be the appropriate remedy, he would
not feel himself justified in complying with
their request, because, the Act appropriating
the Auckland Provincial Revenue having been
allowed to expire, such compliance on His
Excellency’s part would render him a party,
either, on the one hand, to breaking up the