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gration, and others. These matters I will lay
before you as soon as possible.

I shall not trouble you with any further
remarks, but to assure you I feel great confidence
in your anticipated assistance, in carrying out
measures best suited to the wants, and most conducing to the real interests of this province; and
I look forward with assurance to its continuous
and increasing prosperity.

The following reply was adopted by the
Council:—

To His Honour William Adams, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Marl-
borough, Islands of New Zealand.

We, the members of the Provincial Council of
Marlborough, in Council assembled, beg to ex-
press to you our thanks for the clear and satis-
factory manner in which you have enunciated to
us your line of policy, and we entirely agree with
you in your views and statements, and more es-
pecially in the sound and wise course you have
adopted, in expressing your earnest intention
and determination to conduct our public business
on the simplest and most economical plan; we
especially applaud your intention of holding,
together with the office of Superintendent that of
Commissioner of Crown Lands, and others neces-
sary for the conduct of our affairs, and of consid-
ering us, your Council in full, as your only
working Executive, confident that, in that step,
hitherto new to Provincial Legislation, we per-
ceive a move made in the direction of a more
sound and healthy organisation of local affairs,
coinciding as it does with the widely-extended
and well-tried municipal institutions
of Old
England, such a system being, we believe, fully
in accordance with the views of the first pro-
moters of Provincial Government, and the framers
of the New Provinces Act.

We also entirely concur with you in your
view of the necessity for the land tax being
fixed and uniform, considering that, how-
ever politic it might have been in years gone by,
to have assessed pastoral and inferior agri-
cultural lands at a higher figure, that now, the
most valuable portions having become the pro-
perty of individuals, it would be impolitic, and
by diminishing the amount of our land sales,
greatly retard the growth and prosperity of our
province, to assess such lands at a higher upset
price than 5s. and 10s. respectively, especially
as it must be patent to all, that for some time,
in the absence of any considerable amount of
Customs revenue, we are mainly dependent upon
the returns from our land sales; superior agri-
cultural lands, on the other hand, should be
assessed at the maximum price, and even that in
most cases, we opine, to be far below its real
value.

In conclusion, we beg to assure you that we
will most cordially support you in your expressed
line of policy and in your exertions for the wel-
fare of this province, and assure you of our
willingness to attend, whenever any important
political question or other business should induce
you to revert to your Council for advice or
assistance.

CYRUS GOULTER,

Speaker.

PROCLAMATION.

I THE SUPERINTENDENT of the
Province of Marlborough, do hereby
proclaim that the undermentioned Allot-
ments of LAND will be put up to
AUCTION, at the Land Office, Marl-
borough, on TUESDAY, 24th Day of

JULY NEXT, at Twelve o’clock,
noon.

Ten per cent. of the Purchase Money to
be deposited at the sale, and the re-
mainder to be paid within one month,
or the deposit forfeited.

TOWN OF PICTON.

PICTON SUBURBAN.

WAITOHI VALLEY.

North Bank of Wairau.

Part 2 of Rural VII.
| No. | Contents | Upset Price |
|-----|-----------|-------------|
| | 25 0 0 | 25 0 0 |

Rural VII.
| No. 98 | 50 0 0 | 50 0 0 |

PORA UNDESWORTH.

Uruti or Kakapo Bay.

| No. 17 | 10 0 0 | 10 0 0 |

Whangakoko Bay.

| No. 18 | 38 0 0 | 19 0 0 |
| No. 19 | 20 0 0 | 31 0 0 |

Hakahaka.

| No. 20 | 24 0 0 | 24 0 0 |

Robin Hood’s Bay.

| No. 21 | 172 0 0 | 43 0 0 |
| No. 22 | 114 0 0 | 28 10 0 |
| No. 23 | 230 0 0 | 55 0 0 |

KAITUNA.

Square No. 19.

Upper Pelorus Valley.