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Board refusing for reasons satisfactory to themselves to sustain any claim for the exemption referred to—neither of which things is consistent either with the spirit or letter of the proviso as the same is by us regarded.

IV. Because the opinion of the Provincial Law Adviser, taken in connection with clause 6 of the Education Act, which provides for the appointment of Special Inspectors, renders it utterly impossible that the act can be administered impartially towards all portions of the community and advantageously for the interests of Education, inasmuch as the Board are, by the opinion aforesaid, first denied the right to ascertain the fitness of a considerable class of teachers to conduct a school before being taken into connexion with the Board, while by the operation of clause 6 they are thereafter precluded from having over such teachers any direct inspection whatever.

For all the foregoing reasons do we declare, that while we were fully prepared to administer the Education Act, notwithstanding the injurious operation of clause 6 of the said Act regarding the appointment of Special Inspectors, in the hope that by a faithful yet considerate application of clause 17, the interests of Education in this Province would, to some extent, be really promoted, and in the further hope that the said clause 6 in the Act would be amended before any serious or permanent evils could arise from it, we, finding that our views of administrative duty, and our interpretation of the 17 clause of the Act are overridden and set aside by the opinion aforesaid of the Provincial Law Adviser, can neither conscientiously administer the Education Act as by the said opinion interpreted, nor consistently hold any longer our seats at the Board of Education, and do therefore now deliberately resign our commissions into the hands of his Honor the Superintendent.

THOS. CHEESEMAN.
ARCH. CLARK.
ALEX. REID.
DAVID BRUCE.

Auckland, June 15th, 1857.

NOTICE.

SLAUGHTER-HOUSE LICENSES.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 5th June, 1857.

A TA Meeting of the Bench of Magistrates held at Howick, on Tuesday, the 2nd instant, Licenses for Slaughtering Cattle were granted to the undermentioned individuals:—

Howick, Vinegar street, John Gill
“ Linkhorn street, Peter Boyle
“ Victoria street, Ann Folks
“ Grey street, Owen Lynchi
“ Church street, Tien a Chinaman
“ Mangere street, James White
Lot 25, Hare Tamaki Native, Joseph King.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 17th June, 1857.

THE following Tenders have been received, and are published for general information.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

LIGHTING, CLEANING, &c., OF CITY AND WHARF LAMPS.

(Tenders received 13th June, 1857.)

Accepted Tender.
John Makepeace................£175 per annum.

Non-accepted Tenders.
Samuel Collins...............£450 per annum
Richard Collins.............£350 “

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 19th June, 1857.

THE following Tenders have been received, and are published for general information.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

ROAD REPAIRS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDING 30th SEPTEMBER, 1857.

(Tenders received 15th April, 1857.)

ONEHUNGA ROAD—FROM MECHANICS’ BAY TO THE PRINCE ALBERT INN, EPSOM.

Accepted Tender.
John O’Neill..................£15 0 0

Non-accepted Tenders.
Edward Earle..................£44 10 6
John Makepeace................75 0 0
George Bartlett...............100 5 0

FROM THE PRINCE ALBERT INN, EPSOM TO BEATTIE’S CORNER, ONEHUNGA.

Accepted Tender.
Simon Shale..................£10 10 0

Non-accepted Tenders.
James Gallaugher...............£15 0 0
Edward Earle..................17 5 0
Richard Kelly.................45 3 0
John Makepeace................120 0 0

FROM BEATTIE’S CORNER PAST THE NEW LUTHER INN TO THE ROYAL OAK INN, AND FROM THENCE THE NEWLY FORMED ROADS OF PRINCES-STREET AND QUEEN STREET ON TO BEATTIE’S CORNER.

Accepted Tender.
Edward Earle..................£19 10 0

Non-accepted Tenders.
John O’Neill...................£25 0 0
Henry Levy....................£4 0 0
James Gallaugher...............35 0 0
Charles Moore, Sen.............35 0 0
Simon Shale....................39 7 6