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OFFICE OF THE COLONIAL BANK OF ISSUE.
Wellington, New Zealand.

Amount of Notes in circulation on Saturday, 26th January, 1856 :-

£5 and upwards ... 19,300
Under £5 ............ 20,160
£39,460

Amount of Gold and Silver Coin held at the said office at the close of business :-

Invested £25,000.

I, Henry St. Hill, Manager of the said Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the Notes in circulation and of the coin held by the said office, as required under Ordinances, No. 16, Session 8, and No. 14, Session II.

HENRY ST. HILL,
Manager.

Dated the 26th day of January, 1856.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 18th, 1856.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication for general information of the following Harbour Regulations issued by order of the Superintendent and Executive Council.

JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.

ADDITIONAL HARBOR REGULATIONS,

All Masters or persons for the time being in charge of any ships or vessels in Port Victoria are to get their sprit sail and other yards fore and aft, to rig in their driver and jib booms, and their bowsprits (in any craft having a running bowsprit) when ordered to do so by the Harbor Master or his assistant, under a penalty of Five Pounds.

To facilitate the removing and the placing of vessels in their proper berths at any wharf or wharves, the masters or persons for the time being in charge of any ships or vessels in Port Victoria are to slack down their stream cables, and other fastenings, and also their bower chains when ordered to do so by the Harbor Master or his assistant, under a penalty of Five Pounds.

If any master or person in charge of a vessel as aforesaid shall interfere with the Harbor Master or his assistant in the execution of his duty in regard to such vessel, so as to resist or impede him in the proper performance thereof, such master or person aforesaid shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of Ten Pounds sterling.

The Harbor Master or his assistant, or any Pilot while removing any vessel from one anchorage to another, may make her fast to any other vessel, or to any warp or wharf: any person resisting the same, or cutting away, slacking off or casting off the warp or fastening, shall forfeit a sum of Five Pounds.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 16th, 1856.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication for general information of the following Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the circumstances connected with the mortality and sickness which prevailed on board the Emigrant Ship, the Isabella Hercus, in her passage from England to the Province of Canterbury.

JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.

To His Honor the Superintendent.

SIR,

We have the honor to report to you the result of our inquiry into the circumstances connected with the sickness and mortality which prevailed on board the Isabella Hercus, in her passage from England to this Province with Emigrants.

Our inquiry was first directed to the condition of the ship on her leaving London—her registered tonnage—her height between decks—and the number of her passengers and crew. On these several points the answers were satisfactory. On the testimony of the Captain, we find that she had lain in the Docks of London 5 or 6 months before undertaking the passage to New