Given under my hand at Christchurch
this Seventh day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Six hundred and forty acres, more or less, on Run No. 69, in the Waitangi District, being a rectangular block, 138 chains 60 links, from north to south, and 46 chains 20 links from east to west, and situate about one and a half miles west of the north branch of the River Waiho, so as to include a quartz reef.

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, entitled "The Canterbury Temporary Mining Reserves Act, 1869," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Canterbury, by Proclamation, to temporarily reserve from sale any lands in which he shall have good reason to believe that precious metals exist: provided that no such reservation shall continue in force beyond the end of the Session of the Provincial Council next after the issue of such Proclamation:

Now therefore I, William Rolleston, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land described in the Schedule hereto.

Given under my hand at Christchurch
this Eleventh day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Six hundred and forty acres, more or less, situate in the Ashburton District, commencing at the confluence of the creek flowing from the Winterslow Range with the branch of the Ashburton forming the south-western boundary of Pasturage 177, Class 2; thence following a line bearing S. 22 deg. 5 min. W. (mag.) a distance of eighty chains; thence north-westerly at a right angle a distance of seventy-five chains; thence north-easterly at a right angle a distance of about one hundred and twenty chains to the branch of the Ashburton before-mentioned; and from thence returning along that stream to the commencing point—Subject to H.P.R. on Run No. 414.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, October 9th 1869.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that a writ calling for an election to be held for the return of a Member to serve in the Provincial Council for the Town of Timaru District has been returned to him with the endorsement that

Alfred George Horton, Esq.,
has been duly elected.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, October 7, 1869.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserve, temporarily, under the 19th clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, viz:—

No. 1216, in red.—Twenty acres, more or less, situate in the Ellesmere District, commencing at a point on the road the same being the north-eastern corner of section 6731; following along the said road in a northerly direction a distance of about twenty-five chains; thence westerly at a right angle a distance of twelve chains fifty links to the Tramway Reserve; thence southerly following the said reserve to the northern boundary of the aforesaid section 6731; and from thence returning along that boundary to the commencing point—For the purposes of a Tramway.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Secretary for Public Works.

COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT.

SHIP HYDASPES.

SIR,—Having inspected the ship Hydaspes upon her arrival, I have the honour to report:—

I found the several compartments creditably clean, well ventilated, and, with the exception of the space allotted to the married people, properly arranged.

I beg to endorse the opinion so frequently expressed by the Commissioners, that the hospital for single women should be constructed on the upper deck if possible, and on no account within the married people’s compartment.

The immigrants unanimously spoke in the highest terms of the treatment they had received at the hands of the Captain, Surgeon, and Officers of the ship, and the Matron appears to have performed her duties most efficiently.

The provisions generally were of good quality, and were stated to have been served out regularly throughout the voyage.