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from time to time as he shall think fit, so long as he shall hold the said office of Superintendent.

Given under my hand, at the Government House at Auckland, this twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,

WILLIAM FOX.

Entered on Record in Register of Patents, No. 2, folio 343, this Twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

W. GISBORNE,
For the Colonial Secretary and Registrar.

NOTICE.

Provincial Treasury, Christchurch,
September 26, 1861.

NOTICE is hereby given that
GEORGE ALFRED RICH,
Commission Agent, has taken out an Auctioneer's License, for the term ending 1st of July, 1862.

ALEXANDER BACK,
Provincial Treasurer.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, September 26, 1861.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified for public information, that a Warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor has been issued, authorizing the Chief Officer of the Police,

EDWARD WILLIAM SEAGER,
to lay informations and institue proceedings for certain offences under the "Arms Act, 1860."

THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, September 27, 1861.

His Honor the Superintendent, in accordance with clause 3 of the Municipal Council Ordinance, directs the publication of the following Petition for a Municipality, received this day from the inhabitants of Lyttelton:—

TO HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT OF CANTERBURY.

THE Undersigned Householders of Lyttelton respectfully request your Honor to proclaim the Town of Lyttelton with its suburbs a Municipal District, under the Municipal Council Ordinance:—

H. P. Murray Aynsley
Wm. Donald, Winchester Street
William Graham, Frenchly Farm
Louis Carrell, Jackson's Road
W. Heaphy
J. Lumley, London Street
Albert T. W. Bradwell, Coleridge Street
Frederick J. Moss, Dublin Street
Ebenezer Mills, London Street
Francis Knowles, Coleridge Street

John F. Rouse, Hawkhurst Road
Thos. Preece, London Street
Robert Billens, London Street
Thomas Mann, Oxford Street
George Gray, mariner
George Bulst, Sumner Road
John Grubb, London Street
Henry Leake, London Street
R. B. Johnson, Christchurch Road
Henry F. Seager, Ripon street
Wm. Reeves, Oxford Street
Chas. Shepard, Canterbury Street
J. G. Fyfe, London Street
W. Godfrey, Exeter Street
James Beattie, Exeter Street
Edwd. Genet, Norwich Quay
Henry Dunsford, Norwich Quay
George Hislop, Canterbury Street
Richd. Bunker, Exeter Street
John Willcox, Canterbury Street
A. Bayfield, Canterbury Street
H. Allwright, Sumner Road
Thos. Gee, Canterbury Street
T. M. Gee, Canterbury Street
R. H. Rhodes, Purau
J. Hewitt, Wordsworth Terrace
J. S. Barrett, Norwich Quay
J. L. Balestie, Norwich Quay
Samuel Gibbons, London Street
Henry Moss, London Street
E. A. Hargreaves, London street
Sidney G. Brandon, London Street
Wm. Day, Bridle Path
J. Martin Haywood, Norwich Quay
E. Bennett, butcher, Norwich Quay
J. Shanhamsy, Winchester Street
Jno. Macdonald, Dampier's Bay
William Pitcaithley, London Street
C. W. H. Woledge, Oxford Street
George Tayler, London Street
Thos. B. Trew, Norwich Quay
Alex. Rose, Jackson Road
T. Merson, London street
Richd. Wormald, London street
T. B. Leslie, Jackson Road
G. T. Clark, Dampier's Bay
Wm. Bowler, junr., Marine Cottage
Thomas J. Curtis, Norwich Quay
C. Fereday, Burton, Oxford Street
A. R. Chillingworth, Canterbury street
John Fisher, Dampier's Bay
Wm. Pearce, Dublin street
Sydney E. Wright, Ticehurst Road
Joseph Wm. Julian, Norwich Quay
Wm. Thos. Newnham, Wordsworth Terrace
J. T. Peacock
John Bridges, Union Bank of Australia
A. Sutherland, London Street
James Tregear, St. David Street
J. Martin Heywood, Norwich Quay
Thos. Yates, London Street
Jno. Thompson, Gollan's Bay
Richard Brooke, London Street
B. N. Jones, London Street
Robert Forbes
Mable Schenkel, Salt's Gully
Thos. Williams, London Street
John Kidd, London Street
Robt. Belgraves, London Street
Wm. Rayner, Dampier's Bay
Wm. Reeves, Oxford Street
Henry F. Seager, Ripon Street