Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 21, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified, that, in pursuance of the powers vested in him, he has appointed

Mr. John Studholme and
Mr. Andrew Paterson

to be Inspectors of Cattle under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," for the Province of Canterbury.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 1, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that

Thomas Walker Wilkinson, Esq.,
has resigned his seat in the Provincial Council as Member for the Heathcote District.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 26, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified, that a Writ calling for the Election of a Member to serve in the Provincial Council for the Heathcote District has been returned, with the endorsement that

William Rolleston, Esquire,
has been duly elected.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

CUSTOMS’ NOTICE.

Custom House, Lyttelton,
January 13, 1864.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the undermentioned Building has been duly approved and appointed, in accordance with the 11th section of the "Customs Regulations Act, 1858," to be a warehouse for the securing of goods under bond for the payment of Duties of Customs:—

The whole of a stone building belonging to and now occupied by Messrs. M’Lean, Thiel, and Mytton, of Christchurch, Merchants, and newly erected by them on parts of Christchurch Town Sections, numbered respectively 1145 and 1147 on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of Canterbury, and fronting on Tuam Street, near the Ferry Road.

J. W. HAMILTON,
Deputy Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOMS’ NOTICE.

Custom House, Lyttelton,
January 19, 1864.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the undermentioned Building has been duly approved and appointed in accordance with the 11th section of the "Customs Regulations Act, 1858," to be a warehouse for the securing of goods under bond for the payment of Duties of Customs:—

A wooden building, owned, occupied, and recently built by Mr. Edward Circuit Latter, and fronting on Church Street, near the Government Jetty, in the town of Akaroa.

J. W. HAMILTON,
Collector and Deputy Commissioner of Customs.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 26, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified, that

Rowland Davis, Esquire,
has resigned his Seat in the Provincial Council as Member for the Town of Lyttelton.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 2, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that

Thomas William Maude, Esq.,
has resigned the office of Commissioner of the Waste Land Board.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 2, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

William Rolleston, Esq.,
Provincial Secretary, to be a Commissioner of the Waste Land Board.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 21, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Despatch from the Honorable the Colonial Secretary.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, Dec. 21, 1863.

SIR,

The General Assembly has appropriated, out of the Colonial Revenue for this year, the sum of Two thousand Pounds (£2,000), towards a Patriotic Fund for the support of the wives and families of those of Her Majesty’s Regular and Colonial Forces who have fallen and may hereafter fall in the course of the present war in this colony.

I am sure that the Inhabitants and Legislatures of each Province will be anxious to...