T. B. KEELER,
For the Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, Nov. 18, 1856.

Sir,—

I HAVE to inform your Honor that, as communications direct from the writers, are frequently received by His Excellency's Government on matters relating to the administration of the Provincial Governments, it has been notified in the "Government Gazette" of the 11th instant, that all communications of that kind should in the first place be sent unsealed to the Superintendent of the Province to which they relate; in order that he might have an opportunity of accompanying them with such remarks as he may think necessary.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your Honor's very obedient servant,
L. W. STAFFORD.

His Honor the Superintendent,
Canterbury.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
November 29, 1856.

THE Provincial Government are prepared to receive tenders for the establishment of a Ferry over the south branch of the Waimakariri, at the cuttings; opposite the new Ferry House, on the North-road.

The Government will provide the Contractor with a house and ten acres of land on the south side, and a quarter of an acre of land on the north side of the river.

The Contractor will have to find a Ferry-boat at least as large as the present boat at Jackson's Ferry, together with ropes and all other things necessary to keep the Ferry in working order.

Tenders must state the rate of Fares for which the Contractor will undertake to work the Ferry.

The Ferry will be let for three years, and must be established not later than the 1st March, 1857.

Tenders must be sent to the Provincial Secretary's office before noon on Wednesday, the 31st December.

Joseph Brittan,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD,
GERALD, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers vested in me in that behalf, by the 23rd clause of the Regulations for the Disposal, Sale, Letting, and Occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown, in the Province of Canterbury, and upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, Proclaim and Declare, that the Lands hereinafter described shall be reserved for the following purposes; that is to say:

1. Two hundred acres, more or less, situated in the Christchurch district, above Riccarton, commencing at the north-west corner of section 346, thence along the north-western boundary line of the said section No. 346 to the north-eastern corner thereof on the water-course running into the Heathcote, following up the said watercourse (north-westerly) and in a straight line, altogether a distance of about 50 chains, thence south-westerly in a line parallel to the aforesaid north-western boundary line of section No. 346 to the high bank of the Heathcote, and returning along the said high bank to the commencing point, subject to a road one chain wide from the north-western corner of section No. 156 to the north-eastern corner of section 327, and numbered 92 in red, for a lunatic asylum, subject to pre-emptive right 128.

2. Twenty acres, more or less, situated in the Christchurch district, bounded on the north and west by the Wairerapa stream, in the south-west by section No. 117 about 21 chains, and in the south-east by a line from the north-eastern boundary of section No. 117 to the Wairerapa, and numbered 93 in red, for a gravel pit, subject to pre-emptive right 168.

3. Twenty acres, more or less, situated near Kaipoi, in the ford between the north road and the road along the northern boundary of the Native reserve, and numbered 94 in red for a gravel pit, subject to pre-emptive right 153.

4. One quarter of an acre on the northern bank of the Waimakariri, opposite the New Ferry, being bounded on the east by the reserve of 66 feet.