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Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 30th August 1871.

HIS Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to accept the Resignation by Henry John Tancred, Esq.,
of the office of Deputy-Superintendent.

WALTER KENNAWAY.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 1, 1871.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint
Samuel Hewlings, Esq.,
to be Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 1, 1871.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint
Samuel Hewlings, Esq.,
to be a Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, August 31, 1871.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint
John Payne Restell, Esq.,
to be Inspector of Schools, under “The Education Ordinance, 1871.”

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 1, 1871.

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. 1820, in red.—Twenty acres (more or less), situate in the Waipara District, bounded on the southwestward by section 8198, for a distance of twenty chains, and extending north-easterly a distance of ten chains in a rectangular block, so as to include the land at present used as a metal pit—for a reserve for metal.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

COMMISSIONER’S REPORT.

SHIP “MEROPE”

SIR,—I have the honour to report having inspected the above Ship on her arrival from London, after a rapid passage of 76 days.

I found the Immigrants in good health and spirits, satisfied with the treatment they had received at the hands of the Captain, Surgeon-Superintendent, and Officers of the Ship, and contented in respect to the provisions supplied during the passage.

The Distilling Apparatus has worked well throughout the voyage, and the supply of water was unlimited.

The several compartments were well ventilated and cleanly; that occupied by the married people reflected great credit on their observance of the sanitary regulations.

I have much pleasure in recommending the payment of all gratuities, and the further employment of the Surgeon-Superintendent, should he desire it.

FREDK. D. GIBSON,
Immigration Commissioner.

Lyttelton, August 29, 1871.

His Honor the Superintendent,
Christchurch.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

CAUTION TO RUNHOLDERS AND OTHERS.

RUNHOLDERS and others are hereby cautioned not to cut and remove for the purpose of sale or to burn, Growing Flax on Waste Lands of the Crown.

Pasturage Licenses only give the right to depasture the lands over which they are given.

All persons found offending as above after this Public Notice, will be proceeded against as the law directs.

WILLIAM GUISE BRITTAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land Office, Christchurch,
August 30, 1871.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled “The Canterbury Police Ordinance, 1858, Session X., No. 1,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by Proclamation, to declare the said Ordinance to be in operation in any town, upon the requisition to that effect from a majority of the Justices of the Peace of the District in which such town is situated.

Now therefore, I, William Rolleston, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, do hereby, upon the requisition of a majority of the Justices of the Peace of the Sefton District, proclaim and declare that “The Canterbury Police Ordinance” shall be and is hereby brought into operation within the Township of Leithfield in the said District.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this First day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.