Superintendent's Office,
Marlborough, Dec. 3rd, 1861.

IT is notified that the undermentioned portions of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Marlborough, as hereinafter described, have been Reserved, in order that they may be laid out in Suburban Sections, and sold as such in accordance with the Provisions of the Land Regulations, 1856, viz. :

The land lying between a line from the base of Mount Fyffe on the River Gohi, to a spot 50 chains from the high-water mark of the mouth of the River Hapuka and the sea, and all the timbered land on Mr. George Fyffe’s Run.

W. D. H. BAILLIE,
Superintendent.

THE attention of the Provincial Government Officers of Marlborough is hereby directed to the following circular, and they are requested to Act in conformity with the same.

W. D. H. BAILLIE,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 1st Nov., 1861.

SIR,—Instances have recently come under the notice of the General Government of very unsatisfactory relations existing between some of its Officers in the Provinces and the Provincial Authorities.

Officers of the General Government should remember that the General and Provincial Governments are parts of one machinery of government established under the same Constitution and having for their common object the promotion of the welfare and prosperity of the Colony as a whole. Unfriendly relations between Officers of the two Governments impede the public service, lead to lengthy, angry, and unprofitable correspondence, and generate difficulties which the time of the Ministers is very wastefully employed in adjusting or removing.

It is the duty of Officers of the General Government to co-operate in a friendly spirit with all Provincial Authorities with whom the duties of their office may bring them into contact, and particularly to avoid as far as possible all irritating and offensive controversy, either personal or in writing. Any marked or repeated inattention to this caution must be regarded as conclusive proof of their unfitness for the Public Service.

You will take care to call the attention of your subordinate officers to this.

I have forwarded a copy of this circular to the several Superintendents of the Colony with a request that they will bring the subject under the notice of the Provincial Officers in the same manner.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,

WILLIAM FOX,
Colonial Secretary.

PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.

Crown Land Office, Picton,
December 12th, 1861.

WHEREAS a decision was, on the 22nd February, 1861, given in favour of JOHN FORD on his application for a Run in the Wairau, bounded on the South by Michael Maher’s Run, West by the Kaituna Valley and surveyed land, North by the wooded ridge, on the East by the Waikaka stream:

And whereas the said John Ford not having deposited at this office any certificate or plan of the same within nine months from the date of the said decision, in accordance with the Land Regulations now in force in this Province, I do hereby declare the said Run to be open to be applied for by any other person.

WILLIAM ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Attorney-General’s Office, Auckland,
29th November, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS WILLIAM DOWNES, Esq.,

to be Sheriff for the District of Marlborough.

HENRY SEWELL.

Treasury, Auckland,
6th December, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM ADAMS, Esq.,

to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Province of Marlborough, the appointment to bear date from the 1st December, 1861.

READER WOOD.