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taintment of his Excellency the Governor
on his expected arrival in this Province:

He also agrees most cordially with them in the resolution they have passed with reference to the financial arrangements present subsisting between the General and Provincial Governments, and the pressing necessity there is for some special adjustment by the General Assembly, by which the Provinces may know the precise amount of funds at their control and be no longer dependent on the will of an irresponsible Executive.

The Superintendent assents to the alterations which the Council have made in the Land Regulations, and in accordance with the resolution they have passed, he will transmit them without delay to his Excellency the Governor, with an urgent recommendation to him to issue them as early as possible under the provisions of the “Waste Lands’ Act.” He approves also of the “Census Ordinance,” and the “Canterbury Association’s Reserves Ordinance,” and hereby declares his assent to them on behalf of His Excellency the Governor.

It only remains for the Superintendent to prorogue the Council and he hereby declares it to be prorogued till Tuesday the 6th day of March, 1855, and it stands prorogued to that day accordingly.

James Edward FitzGerald,
Superintendent.

General Assembly Elections.
New Zealand to wit.—Proclamation of Canterbury.

WHEREAS a writ under the hand of Thomas Gore Browne, Esquire, Companion of the most honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, hath been directed to me, Charles Christopher Bowen, Esquire, as Returning Officer for the Town of Christchurch, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected, by and from amongst the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and form by law prescribed, One Person to serve as a Member of the House of Representatives for the Town of Christchurch, and in the event of a poll being demanded for the candidates or any of them, such polling shall take place on Wednesday, the nineteenth day of December next, in the lobby of the Provincial Council Chamber at Christchurch; the voting to commence at any time after nine o’clock, a.m. of the said day, and to close at four o’clock p.m. of the same day.

Charles Christopher Bowen,
Returning Officer.

Government Offices,
Christchurch, Oct. 9th, 1855.

New Zealand to wit.—Province of Canterbury.

WHEREAS a Writ, under the hand of Thomas Gore Browne, Esq., Companion of the most honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, hath been directed to me, Charles Christopher Bowen, Esquire, as Returning Officer for the Christchurch Country District, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected, by and from amongst the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and form by law prescribed, Two Persons to serve as Members of the House of Representatives for the Christchurch Country District, the General Assembly of New Zealand having been dissolved: Now, therefore, I, the said Charles Christopher Bowen, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Christchurch Country District, do hereby in pursuance of the said recited writ, give notice that a public meeting of the Electors of the Christchurch Country District will be holden in the Market Place of the town of Christchurch, on Tuesday, the 18th day of December next, in the lobby of the Provincial Council Chamber at Christchurch, in the Town of Lyttelton, and at Mr. Boys’ Hotel, Kaiapoi; the voting to commence at any time after nine o’clock, a.m. of said day and to close at four o’clock, p.m. of the same day.

Charles Christopher Bowen,
Returning Officer.

Government Offices,
Christchurch, Oct. 9th, 1855.