234 Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT.

Okaihau, No. 1 Block (northern and middle portions), Parish of Omapere, County of Hokianga, 2,000 acres second-class land.

Okaihau, No. 2 Block (north western portion), Parish of Okaihau, County of Hokianga, 2,000 acres first-class land.

Okaihau, No. 2 Block (to the west of allotment No. 11), Parish of Okaihau, County of Hokianga, 250 acres first-class land.

Applications for the above lands must be made to Captain H. C. Burleigh, Okaihau, with whom plans of the said blocks have been lodged for public inspection.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honour Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in the Superintendent by “The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1874,” I do hereby proclaim and declare that all that parcel of land described in the Schedule hereunder, shall be open for bona fide occupation under the provisions of the “Homestead System” of the said Act, on and after Tuesday, the 11th day of July, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this seventh day of June, 1876.

G. GREY.

Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Waipu Block, Parish of Waipu, County of Marsden. 240 acres of second-class land to the west and adjoining allotment No. 32.

Application for the above lands must be made to Mr. Duncan McKenzie, Chairman Waipu Middle District Board, with whom a plan of the said land has been lodged for public inspection.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By His Honour Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers in me vested by section 81 of “The Highways Act, 1874,” I do hereby appoint

PONSONBY RALEIGH PEACOCKE, ESQ, M.P.C.

to be an Auditor for the PAPAROA (PAKURANGA) Highway District, in the place of Mr Thomas Page Gill, resigned.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this 8th day of June, 1876.

G. GREY,

Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,

Auckland, 5th June, 1876.

THE following correspondence is published by direction of His Honour the Superintendent.

READER WOOD,

Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office,

Auckland 5th June, 1876.

MY LORD,—

I have the honour to enclose a letter which I have addressed to Lord Carnarvon, and which I respectfully request Your Lordship to transmit to him by this mail. I have forwarded two copies to enable this to be done.

I must apologise to Your Excellency for sending this letter at so late an hour, but it was not until Saturday evening and this morning that I was made aware of the important effect which was being produced by the circulation of the rumours of the probability of Her Majesty’s forces being employed against the people of this Colony in the manner stated in this morning’s paper.

For fear of any unfortunate or unavoidable delay, I propose to send one copy of my letter to Lord Carnarvon direct. Under the circumstances I have stated, Your Excellency will, I trust, pardon this.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant,

G. GREY.

His Excellency the Governor.

Superintendent’s Office,

Auckland, 5th June, 1876.

MY LORD,—

I have only just had an opportunity of seeing in the public prints Your Lordship’s despatch of the 17th February last to the Governor of this Colony.

As Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, I gratefully thank Your Lordship for expressing your opinion so unmistakably in favour of delaying so important a measure as the Bill for the Abolition of the Provinces in this Colony until the general election afforded the constituencies an opportunity of expressing their opinion regarding it.

No such opportunity, as in a free country is allowed to its inhabitants of expressing their opinion upon the destruction of their Constitution, and the substitution of another for it, has yet in this case been afforded to the inhabitants of New Zealand.

But on this occasion I wish, before the departure of the mail, to call Your Lordship’s attention to a most important point: There are in this Colony Provincial Governments and Provincial Legislatures. These Legislatures are subordinated to the legislation of the General Assembly in the same manner that the legislation of Colonial Legislatures is subordinated to that of the Imperial Parliament.

That great Parliament has never taken from a Colony (unless in case of rebellion) a free representative constitution which had once been given to it, without the assent of the Colonial Legislature having been previously obtained to such a course being taken.

We claim here the same right, namely,—that the Provincial Legislature, after an appeal to the constituencies, should be consulted before their Executive and Legislative privileges are taken from the people of this Province by the General Assembly.