156

day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.

JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
R. PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.

God save the Queen.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, Oct. 1, 1857.

THE Deputy-Superintendent directs
the publication of the following
letter and its enclosure.

By command of the Deputy Super-
intendent.

R. PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.

Sumner, September 28, 1857.

SIR,—I shall be much obliged if you
will publish the enclosed memorandum
in the Government Gazette.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD.

Charles Bowen, Esq.,
Deputy-Superintendent.

[Enclosure.]

MR. FITZ GERALD, upon retiring
from the Government of the Pro-
vince, desires to acknowledge, in the
warmest terms, the zealous and active
assistance which he has uniformly re-
ceived from all the gentlemen engaged
on the permanent staff of the Provin-
cial Government. In the exercise of
the patronage of the Government, Mr.
Fitz Gerald has been guided by no other
desire than that of securing in each of-
fice the services of gentlemen most
qualified from character and abilities to
fulfil its peculiar duties; and he be-
lieves that he has not been unsuccessful
in this endeavour.

Mr. Fitz Gerald thinks it right to
state, that from an intimate acquaint-
ance with the duties of each depart-
ment, and the labors required from each
servant of the public, he is satisfied that
a full demand is made, in some cases
more than a full demand upon the time
and energies of each; and he is equally
certain that no work is being carried on
in the public offices which can be neg-
lected without loss to the public ser-
vice.

It is of little avail proposing or adopt-
ing a policy, however active or bene-
ficial, unless there be a staff of subor-
dinate officers, competent, well-trained,
and zealous, to carry the measures of
Government into effect. Mr. Fitz
Gerald has the satisfaction to think that
his successor will enter upon his office
with such a staff at his disposal, and
has great pleasure in acknowledging
that it is mainly owing to the steady
labor and active co-operation of those
engaged under him, that whatever suc-
cess has attended his administration of
the Government is mainly due.

Mr. Fitz Gerald desires equally to
express his acknowledgments for the
assistance he has received from those
gentlemen who have successively held
the office of Provincial Secretary. In
making appointments to this office, Mr.
Fitz Gerald has been guided by that
which he believes to be a necessity of
all smoothly-working Governments—
the maintenance of a thoroughly harmo-
nious understanding between the Super-
intendent and the Provincial Council.
To effect this, it is necessary that the
recognised leader of the Provincial
Council should hold the principal mi-
nisterial office in the Government, and
although this principle may appear to
work uneasily when there may be no
such recognised leader, its abandonment
would be found most calamitous when
such a leader exists.

JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD.

Proclamation.

I, CHARLES BOWEN, Deputy Super-
intendent of the Province of Can-
terbury, do hereby, in pursuance of the
powers vested in me in that behalf by
the regulations now in force for the
disposal, sale, letting, and occupation
of the Waste Lands of the Crown, Pro-
claim and Declare that the Lands here-
inafter described shall be reserved for
the following purposes; that is to say,
fifteen hundred acres, more or less, boun-
ded on the North and West by the river
Hurunui, on the East by Taylor's Creek,
running into Lake Sumner, and on the
South by a line drawn parallel to the
Hurunui, so as to include such quan-
tity; to be temporarily reserved for the
uses of the Provincial Government, and
for other public purposes.

Also, five acres, more or less, situate