is not to affect Officers who desire to quit the Service, for the express purpose of settling in the Colonies; it is only required, that when they resign their Commissions, they should apply for a certificate from the Commander-in-Chief, or from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, or from the Master General of the Ordnance, that they do so with the view of emigrating, and such certificate, if produced to the Governor of any of the Colonies before-mentioned within one year from its date, but not otherwise, will be a sufficient warrant for allowing the bearer the same advantages as Officers who are still in Her Majesty’s Service.

6. An actual residence of two years in the colony must be proved before the Titles can be granted, except in cases in which death may have occurred before the expiration of that period.

7. For the convenience of Officers, the following heads are subjoined of the Rules for the sale of land in the Australian settlements:

All Lands are disposed of by sale alone, and must have been once at least exposed to public auction.

The lowest upset price is not less than £1 per acre ; but the Government has power to raise the same by Proclamation, though not again to reduce it.

The lands are distinguished into three different classes; viz, Town Lots, Suburban Lots, and Country Lots.

Upon Town and Suburban Lots, as well as upon a proportion not exceeding one-tenth of the whole of the Country Lots offered for sale at any auction, the Governor has the power of naming a higher than the general, or lowest upset price: these last to be designated “Special Country Lots.”

Town and Suburban Lots are in no case disposed of except by public auction; but country lots, which have already been put up to public auction, and not sold, may be disposed of afterwards by private contract at the upset price.

No Lands are sold by private contract, except for ready money. When sold by public auction, one-tenth at least of the whole purchase-money must be put down, and the remainder within one calendar month, or the deposit is forfeited.

Lands are put up for sale in Lots not exceeding one square mile in extent.

8. In Ceylon, land is sold by auction at an upset price, which is to be fixed by the Governor, but which is not to be less than £1 per acre. Before the lands are exposed for sale, they will be surveyed by the Government, and duly advertised.

9. At the Cape of Good Hope the upset price is 2s. per acre in the old colony, and 4s. per acre in the District of Natal.

10. The several prices above mentioned are of course subject to a revision at any time by the proper authorities, and the pecuniary amount of the Remission made to Officers cannot be increased on account of an increased value set upon the lands.

May, 1851.

I HEREBY certify that I have seen and examined the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Medical Degree of the University of St. Andrew’s and the Midwifery Diploma of the Western Lying in Hospital, Dublin, granted to Mr. Thomas M’Oheane, of Lyttelton, and do find the same to be correct, and in due form.

(Signed) John Robert Godley,
R. M.

Lyttelton, November 28, 1851.

I HEREBY certify that William Purdie, of Dunedin, in the district of Otago, Doctor of Medicine, has this day submitted for my examination his degree as a Doctor of Medicine of the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, in accordance with the provisions of an Ordinance passed by the Provincial Council of New Munster, Sess. I, No. 2, entitled “An Ordinance to define the Qualifications, and to provide for the remuneration in certain cases of Medical Practitioners.”

Dated at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, Otago, this 28th day of March, 1851.

A. CHEHAM STRODE,
Resident Magistrate.

TOTAL AMOUNT of Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 13th day of December, 1851 ......

Amount of Notes in circulation on the 13th day of December, 1851, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:—

£5 and upwards ............................ £615
Under £5 ....................................... 6316

Total .............................................. £6731

Total amount of Coin held by the same Office on the same day—

Gold ............................................... £1934
Silver .............................................. 1497

Total .............................................. £3431

I, Henry W. Petre, the Colonial Treasurer, do hereby certify that the above is a true account, as required by the Ordinance, No. 16, Session 8.

Henry W. Petre,
Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Treasury, Wellington,
15th day of December, 1851.

The sum of four thousand pounds has been invested, under the warrant of His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, in the public funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.

Henry W. Petre,
Colonial Treasurer.