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therewith, be published for general information.
By his Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Clerk in Superintendent's Office.

To his Honor the Superintendent of the
Province of Nelson.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
14th August, 1854.

SIR—I have been instructed by the Officer administering the Government to transmit to your Honor herewith a Government Gazette Extraordinary, issued by direction of His Excellency, proclaiming a "General Fast" to be held in the Colony, and I have the honor to request you will be good enough to proclaim the day when it shall be observed in the Province under your control.

I have, &c.,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.
FOR A DAY OF SOLEMN FAST, HUMILIATION, AND PRAYER.

By his Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Officer administering the Government of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, taking into Her most serious consideration the just and necessary war in which Her Majesty is engaged, her Majesty, by a Royal Proclamation bearing date the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, hath commanded that a Public Day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer, be observed throughout the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, so that Prayer and Supplication may be made to the Divine Majesty for imploring his blessing and assistance on Her Majesty's arms for the restoration of Peace to her Majesty and her dominions, and hath charged and commanded that such Public Fast Day be reverently and devoutly observed:

AND WHEREAS it is fitting that a day be set apart to be observed in like manner in this portion of Her Majesty's dominions:

Now therefore I, the Officer administering the Government, in pursuance of the authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that a public day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer be observed throughout the Islands of New Zealand, that is to say, throughout the Province of Auckland in the said Islands, on Tuesday, the 22nd day of August instant, and throughout the other Settlements of the Islands aforesaid, that is to say in the Province of New Plymouth, the Province of Wellington, the Province of Nelson, the Province of Canterbury, and the Province of Otago, on such day as may be named for that purpose by the Superintendents of each of the said Provinces respectively, so that we may humble ourselves before Almighty God, and send up our Prayers and Supplications to the Divine Majesty for imploring His blessing and assistance on Her Majesty's arms for the restoration of Peace. And I hereby charge and enjoin that the said days be reverently and devoutly observed.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Auckland, this eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

R. H. WYNYARD,
The Officer administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand.

By his Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
19th August, 1854.

FRIDAY, the 1st day of September next having been set apart to be observed as a public day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer, His Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to direct that the Public Offices of the Government be closed on that day.

By his Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Clerk in Superintendent's Office.

PRINTED BY C. AND J. ELLIOTT, AT THE "EXAMINER" OFFICE, NELSON.