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The 19th Section of the Regulations provides that "Reserves for military defence and forces of the General Government shall not be alienated from such purposes unless by an act of the General Assembly." This is inconsistent with, and in effect repeals a portion of the "Public Reserves Act," 1855.

The clauses relating to "Local Improvements Fund," (84-5-6) I am instructed to state, appear to be in direct contravention of the Constitution Act. They provide that a portion of the sum paid by purchasers in respect of sales or alienations shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer, and thus altogether be withdrawn from the operation of the Constitution Act.

The Governor regrets that he is not able to issue these Land Regulations, but, as the "Provincial Waste Lands Act, 1854" has been assented to by the Queen, he hopes that the General Assembly will soon be able to place legislation by provinces on the subject of the Waste Lands on a far more satisfactory footing than it is at present.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your Honor’s most obedient
humble servant,

(Signed) ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

To His Honor the Superintendent
of Canterbury.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 29th September, 1855.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT is pleased to appoint

Mr. James Rule,

To be an Inspector of Sheep under the Scab and Catarrh Ordinance, Session III, No. 2, in the room of Mr. J. T. Parkinson, resigned.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent.

Joseph Brittan,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 1st October, 1855.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT is pleased to appoint

Mr. Donald Munday,

to be Clerk to the Bench at Lyttelton.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,

Joseph Brittan,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled an "Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent as in the said recited Act provided; the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof and it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him to declare by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas an Ordinance hath been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof intituled "Census Ordinance, Session 4, No. 2," and the said Ordinance was received by the Officer administering the Government on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinance should be disallowed, now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby Proclaim and declare my disallowance of the said recited Ordinance.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand at Auckland, in the Islands aforesaid, this eleventh day of September, in the nineteenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

Thomas Gore Browne,
Governor of The Islands of New Zealand,
By His Excellency’s command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

God save the Queen