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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official
Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made
to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By his Honor's command,
HENRY ADAMS, Solicitor of the Province.
VOL. II. NELSON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1854. No. 18.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
THURSDAY, Nov. 23, 1854.
THE Superintendent opened the Second
Session of the Provincial Council, at
the Council Chamber, at twelve o'clock at
noon, when his Honor delivered the fol-
lowing
ADDRESS.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE
COUNCIL—
It is with much satisfaction that I am again
enabled to resort to your advice and assistance,
in the consideration of those measures calculated
to maintain for this Province that progressive
prosperity which has been for some years its
distinguishing feature.
-
Constant and steady as has been the pro-
gress of this portion of New Zealand, it will be
gratifying to you to learn that all the indications
of a rapid advance in the circumstances of a
country have, during the past year, been in this
Province especially marked. The receipts of
the Customs and Crown Lands departments
both forcibly illustrate the increased means of
the community: the former having amounted
to £8,957 0s. 11¾d., or nearly double that of the
preceding year; and the latter to £27,940 0s.
3d.; while the purchase by actual residents of
no less than 98,284 acres of land, during the
year, affords unmistakable evidence of an ap-
preciation of the great capabilities of the Pro-
vince by those best competent to judge of them. -
While the Province is thus steadily ad-
vancing in material wealth, it is also a matter of
sincere congratulation that the moral character
of the community retains its high standard.
The increase of population has led to no corres-
ponding increase in the commission of crime,
which, on the contrary, has in this Province
become an event of rare occurrence amongst its
permanent inhabitants. Although no sitting
of the Supreme Court had taken place for two
years, the recent session was marked by but
two convictions, neither of them for offences of
serious magnitude: and if the seamen, com-
mitted to prison for desertion, are omitted from
the cases tried in the Resident Magistrate's
Court, it will be found, on an examination of
the Returns, that the convictions for petty
offences during the last twelve months were in
the proportion of but two per cent. to the
population. -
So eminently favourable a state of public
welfare may in a great measure be accounted
for by the rapid improvement in the circum-
stances of the colonists, the absence of any
sense of comparative degradation, and the con-
sequent feeling of self-respect enjoyed by each
member of the community; and prominently
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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government23 November 1854
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- The Superintendent
- Henry Adams, Solicitor of the Province