COLONIAL BANK OF ISSUE.

TOTAL Amount of Notes in circulation at the
Offices of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at
Auckland and Wellington, on the 12th day
of July, 1856, being the close of the pre-
ceding four weeks.
5l. and upwards ........................ £23,665
Under 5l. ................................ 22,508

Total.................................. 46,173

Total Amount of Coin held by the same
offices on the same day :-
Gold................................... £14,534
Silver..................................... 639

Total.......................... 15,173

I, Henry Sewell, the Colonial Treasurer, do
hereby certify that the above is a true ac-
count, as required by the Ordinance, No. 16,
Session 8.

HENRY SEWELL,
Colonial Treasurer.

Dated at Auckland, this 5th
day of August, 1856.

The sum of £31,000 has been in-
vested under the Warrant of His Excellency
the Governor in the purchase of £33,066 11s.
11d. 3 per cent. Consols, by arrangements
made through the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
18th August, 1856.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following
"Notice to Mariners" from the Government
Gazette of Western Australia, should be pub-
lished for general information.

By His Excellency's command,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Perth,
May 16, 1856.

THE following report on Pollock Reef,
is published for general information.

By his Excellency's command,
FRED. P. BARLEE,
Colonial Secretary.

POLLOCK REEF.

The above dangerous reef was seen by me
whilst on a voyage from Adelaide to Swan
River in the brigantine "Robert Clive" on
21st April, 1856, and by favourable observa-
tions was found to lie 14 miles in direction
South half East (magnetic) from the nearest
part of the South East Isles of the Recherche
rchipelago.

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This position on Flinder's Chart will be in
lat., 34° 35' South; longitude, 123° 28'
East.

Passing 3 miles Southward of the Reef at
10 hours a.m., the weather being fine, and a
long swell rolling in from the S.W., the shoal
water was observed from aloft to extend about
one mile in an East and West direction, and
to be 200 yards in width, but breakers exten-
ded over only one-third of that space, in pro-
bably 2 or 3 fathoms water. The shoalest
part was near the centre, where the sea broke
abruptly against a small rock which had ap-
parently not more than 6 or 8 feet water on
it.

As this reef lies in the direct track of ves-
sels rounding the South East Isles, and is en-
tirely under water, it is dangerous to approach
in the night or in thick weather, for the
soundings are deep close up to it, and give no
warning of its vicinity.

The third South East Isle mentioned in the
note upon Flinders Chart does not exist.

J. S. ROE,
Surveyor General.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
18th August, 1856.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following Cir-
cular Despatches from Her Majesty's principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies, should be
published for General information.

By His Excellency's command,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing-street,
18th April, 1856.

SIR.--I transmit to you enclosed, a printed
Copy of an Order made by the Queen in
Council, under date of the 9th instant, revoking
Her Majesty's Order of the 29th day of March,
1854, by which it was directed that no Ves-
sels belonging to Her Majesty's subjects should
be permitted to clear out for Russian Ports;
and that a general embargo should be made
of all Russian Vessels, together with the per-
sons and effects on board the said Vessels in
the ports of Her Majesty's Dominions.

I also transmit to you herewith, for your
information, a further printed Copy of an
Order made by the Queen in Council on the
9th instant, directing that the several prohi-
bitions, be taken off which now subsist on the
exportation out of the United Kingdom, or
upon the carrying coastwise, of arms, ammu-
nition, gunpowder, saltpetre, brimstone, marine
engines, and boilers, and the component parts
thereof, lead, nitrate of soda, sulphate and
muriate of potash, certain descriptions of iron,
and other articles mentioned in Her Majesty's
Proclamation of the 18th February, 1854, and
in divers subsequent Orders in Council.

I have, &c., &c.

Governor Gore Browne,
H. LABOUCHERE.