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persons actively engaged in supporting the
authority of the Crown, during the Na-
tive war, and were excluded, no doubt by
an oversight, from the benefits which others,
their companions in arms, have been entitled
to and received; I trust you will see with me
the justice of making provision for the few
cases which exist in this province.

16. A commissioner appointed by the General
    Government to choose a site for a General
    Colonial Lunatic Asylum, having recom-
    mended a site in this province for that pur-
    pose, and the General Government having
    adopted that recommendation, and undertaken
    to erect an Asylum thereon as soon as possible,
    upon the site being placed at their disposal, I
    thought it advisable to apply the sum voted
    last year for a purchase
    of the site in question, which has accordingly
    been done. The advantages of an establish-
    ment of this kind being general, and supported
    by the combined means of the whole colony,
    being so obviously superior to any to be con-
    ferred by a local institution, I trust this
    arrangement will meet with your sanction.

17. Frequent complaints having been made
    of the locality of the cemetery at present in use
    in the town of Nelson, a bill will be submitted
    to you to enable me to cause the cemetery to
    be closed, and to purchase land forming a
    more eligible site in the neighbourhood of the
    town, which it is to be hoped will be liable to
    none of the objections which have been raised
    against the present cemetery.

18. A Select Committee was appointed during
    your last session to confer with the Executive
    Government on the subject of the erection of a
    new Council Chamber and Public Offices. After
    examining various proposed sites, those bodies
    have unanimously agreed upon one possessing
    many advantages, and have also selected a
    tasteful design for the buildings themselves.
    The completion of these will necessarily involve
    a larger outlay than the sum raised under the
    Debenture Act.

19. The Imperial Government having entered
    into a contract for the steam mail service of
    New Zealand, by the terms of which Nelson is
    made the principal station for the arrival and
    departure of the steamers employed, for
    which its central position, the serenity of its
    climate, the dock-like security of its harbour,
    and the unrivalled facilities afforded by the
    latter for careening vessels, so admirably
    adapt our port, it behoves us to do everything
    in our power to complete these advantages by
    providing a wharf alongside which the steam
    vessels may lie at all times of tide. Plans
    and specifications of a new jetty have
    accordingly been prepared, and tenders for
    its erection been called for and received,
    which will be laid before you; and if you agree
    with me as to the necessity of the undertaking,
    it can be immediately carried into execution.

These are all the subjects on which it ap-
pears to me necessary to offer any remarks;
and I have to conclude, gentlemen, with the
expression of my confidence that your delibera-
tions will materially contribute to realize for
the future of this province even a larger
amount of prosperity than it at present enjoys.

J. P. ROBINSON,
Superintendent.

Nelson, 12th April, 1859.

Provincial Secretary\'s Office,
Nelson, March 30, 1859.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs it
to be notified for general information,
that a Writ for the election of a Member of
the Provincial Council for the undermentioned
district, in the Province of Nelson, having
been issued in accordance with the provisions
of an Act to grant a Representative Constitu-
tion to the Colony of New Zealand, the Return-
ing Officer of the said district has returned
the said Writ, with a certificate to the effect
that the undermentioned gentleman has been
duly elected as a Member of the said
Provincial Council for the said district.

For the Waimea West District—
HENRY REDWOOD, senior, Waimea West,
Farmer.
ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary\'s Office,
Nelson, April 11, 1859.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that he has been pleased
to appoint
JAMES BALFOUR WEMYSS, Esq., J.P.,
a Member of the Executive Council of this
Province.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.

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