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Gentlemen, feeling confident that you will
enter upon the serious duties of this special
session with a determination to rigidly exa-
mine every circumstance surrounding and
affecting the subject to be discussed, and
hoping that our united labours may, by God’s
blessing, be productive of that prosperity to
the province and colony which it is our func-
tion to foster and promote; I have now to
declare this Council duly opened for the
despatch of business.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent, Canterbury.

This appointment to date from the 2nd of
April next.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Attorney General’s Office,
Auckland, 28th February, 1860.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to cause the name of
JOHN CRACROFT WILSON, Esq.,
to be added to the Commission of the Peace
for the Colony.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 2, 1860.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ, issued
for the election of a member to serve in
the Provincial Council, for the district of the
Heathcote, has been returned, with an en-
dorsement thereon, to the effect that
EDWARD FRENCH BUTTEMER HARSTON
of Christchurch, has been duly elected.

CHARLES ROBERT BLAKISTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 10, 1860.

IT is hereby notified, pursuant to the pro-
visions of the Auctioneers’ Licensing Ordi-
nance, Session III, No. 3, I hereby give notice that
JOHN TOWNSEND PARKINSON,
of Christchurch, Commission Agent, has this
day taken out an Auctioneer’s License for
the term ending June 30th, 1860.

JOHN MARSHMAN,
Provincial Treasurer.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 14, 1860.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that
MR. ANDREW SPILLARD
has resigned the office of Pound-keeper, at
Kaiapoi.

CHARLES ROBERT BLAKISTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 14, 1860.

HIS Honor the Superintendent has
been pleased to appoint
MR. EDWARD HOLLIER,
to the office of Pound-keeper, at Kaiapoi, in
the room of Mr. Spillard, who has resigned.

CHARLES ROBERT BLAKISTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 2, 1860.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
the following notification to be pub-
lished for general information:—

CHARLES ROBERT BLAKISTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 2, 1860.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that he has appointed
the undermentioned gentlemen to be Inspec-
tors of Sheep for the Province of Canterbury,
instead of for the Northern and Southern
districts, as formerly, viz.—
THOMAS KINNERSLEY ADAMS, Esq.,
and
PHILIP BAKER BOULTON, Esq.,
and directs that Mr. Boulton shall, until
further notice in the Provincial Govern-
ment Gazette, change his late district with Mr.
Adams, and undertake the inspection of
sheep in the Northern District, as formerly
defined for carrying out the provisions of the
Sheep Ordinance, and that Mr. Adams shall
enter upon the inspection of the Southern
District, as heretofore defined for the pur-
poses of the said Ordinance, and lately under
the charge of Mr. Boulton.

CHARLES ROBERT BLAKISTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, February 28, 1860.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
CHARLES DUDLEY, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and Registrar
of Births, Deaths and Marriages, for the
District of Kaiapoi.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 2, 1860.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
for general information—

I, WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Su-
perintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in
virtue of the powers vested in me by the
43rd clause of the Waste Lands’ Regulations
now in force within the said Province, do
hereby reserve from sale until the 30th day
of September next ensuing, the several por-
tions of land hereafter described, that is to
say:—

Twenty acres at Harewood Forest, having
frontage 10 chains to the road south-
easterly of section 1786, and running
back north-westerly adjoining the said
section a distance of 20 chains, in a
rectangular block, and numbered 2376.

Twenty acres at Harewood Forest, north-
west of and adjoining section 1814,
bounded on the south-west and north-
east by the said section, and on the
north-west by a line parallel to the
south-east boundary line, so as to in-
clude the above quantity, and numbered
2377.

Twenty acres at Harewood Forest, bounded
on the north by a road south of section
1749, on the west by section 1912, on
the south by the said road...