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determined to liberate the Land Fund. I trust, however, that on the occasion of the next opening of this Council I shall be able to announce that this question, upon which the progress of the country so materially depends, has been satisfactorily settled, and that the future consideration of all public matters connected with the revenue will be unembarrassed by unnecessary doubts. The amount of Provincial Revenue which has been actually available for the financial period just expired, inclusive of the balance in the Treasury at its commencement, has been £36,171 3s. 1d., and the Expenditure £32,429 1s. 2d., of which it is gratifying to reflect that the large sum of £24,700 9s. 4d. was expended for public purposes.
I am in correspondence with the Governor on the subject of a more extended Postal Communication throughout the province, so much required by every interest, to establish which his Excellency has assured me is his earnest desire, in evidence of which arrangements have already been made for the regular transmission of mails to the Wairau and Massacre Bay.
The agreement, in accordance with your wishes, entered into by the Superintendent of Wellington and myself for the establishment of Steam Communication to Melbourne, having hitherto failed, through the inability of the contractor to procure a suitable steamer, I propose to renew the attempt in the ensuing year, provided the Government of Wellington and Canterbury, which are equally interested, will contribute for this object.
In addition to the subjects to which I have alluded, other questions of public importance will be brought before your notice during the session, which I feel certain will receive from you that attentive consideration which has hitherto characterized the proceedings of the Council.
Gentlemen, before concluding, I would observe, that the recent news received from England suggests the propriety of an address to her Majesty on the noble achievements of her forces, and those of her gallant allies, during the past year. It could not but be gratifying to her Majesty to learn with what admiration the inhabitants of this distant portion of her dominions have regarded the heroic courage and constancy displayed by the allied troops—how deeply they sympathize with the struggles of their mother-country—what interest they feel in the success of a war which they justly consider to be a war of principle—one of justice against oppression.
PRINTED BY C. AND J. ELLIOTT, AT THE "EXAMINER OFFICE," NELSON.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1856, No 4
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