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I thank you for the liberal manner in which you have voted all the sums I considered necessary for the Departmental Expenses of the Province, and am happy to inform you that circumstances have already occurred since the Estimates were submitted for your consideration, which will, I trust, enable me to effect a considerable reduction in the expense of the Laud Office. Your liberal confidence will make me increasingly solicitous to effect every practicable reduction in that heavy departmental expenditure which now leaves so small a portion of our revenue available for urgently needed public works.

The additions you have made to the proposed expenditure are generally of a character that I cordially approve, and should be most happy to carry out, but regret to say that I can at present see but too little prospect of a larger sum being available than that upon which the Estimates were based.

Whilst it is my duty to thank you for the unreserved manner in which you have cooperated with me in every endeavor to promote the interests of this Province, I cannot prorogue what is probably the last Session of the present Provincial Council of Nelson without expressing the satisfaction I feel in the knowledge that the attitude you have ever assumed towards the Executive, and the temperate manner in which your discussions have invariably been conducted, have tended to uphold the character of the Province you have represented, and to maintain for Provincial Governments that respect without which they would cease to be either useful or powerful.

I now declare this Council prorogued.

ALFRED SAUNDERS,
Superintendent.

Superintendent\'s Office, Nelson,
July 24, 1865.

IT is hereby notified, for general information, that I have this day appointed

Mr. JOSEPH POTTER PARKER,
to be Pound-keeper of the Public Pound, recently erected at Motueka, in this Province.

ALFRED SAUNDERS,
Superintendent.

Superintendent\'s Office, Nelson,
July 25, 1865.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the undermentioned FEES will be charged at the different Ferries in the Province of Nelson, on and after this date.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary, pro tem.

Waimea River at Appleby.
For each person crossing—
Between the hours of 4 o\'clock a.m. and sunset ... 0 3
Between sunset and 10 o\'clock p.m. ... 0 6
Between 10 o\'clock p.m. and 4 o\'clock a.m. ... 2 6
For each horse ferried across ... 1 0

Motueka River.
(Between Motueka and Riwaka.)
For each person crossing—
Between sunrise and sunset ... 0 3
Between sunset and sunrise ... 0 6

Riwaka River.
For each person crossing—
Between sunrise and sunset ... 0 2
Between sunset and sunrise ... 0 6

Takaka River.
(Upper Ferry.)
For each person crossing ... 0 2

Takaka, Waikaho, and Waitapu Rivers.
For each person crossing—
Between sunrise and sunset ... 0 3
Between sunset and sunrise ... 0 6

Motupipi River.
For each person crossing—
Between 7 o\'clock a.m. and 10 o\'clock p.m. ... 0 1
Any other time ... 0 6

Aorere River.
For each person crossing—
At low water ... 0 6
At high water ... 2 0
Swimming horses across—each ... 1 0
GOODS PER TON.
In the day, { At low water ... 2 6
{ At high water ... 5 0
In the night, { At low water ... 3 0
{ At high water ... 6 0

Hurunui River.
For each person crossing ... 2 0

Wai-au River.
For each person crossing ... 2 0

Buller River, Westport.
For each single person crossing ... 1 0
When more than one cross at a time, each ... 0 6

Buller River, near the Lyell.
For each person crossing ... 1 0

Upper Buller.
(Horse Ferry.)
For each person crossing ... 1 0

Motueka Valley.
For each person crossing ... 0 6

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Nelson, by R. LUCAS, Bridge-street, Nelson,
Printer for the time being to the said Government.