DUNEDIN PUBLIC LANDS ORDINANCE.

Passed 10th March, 1854.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Dunedin, 18th July, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the following Correspondence to be published for the information of the Board of Commissioners and satisfaction of the public:

By His Honor's Command,
William H. Reynolds,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 14th July, 1854.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit herewith a Memorial addressed to His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of Otago appearing against the appropriation of Moray Place—a public reserve in the Town of Dunedin—as the site of a proposed Episcopalian Church; and calling upon the Government to furnish His Excellency with any observations thereon.

I have the honor to enclose the Otago Ordinance, Session I. No. 6, as containing, in its preamble and section 14, my delineration upon the subject, and to submit to His Excellency that the appropriation of Moray Place, as lately advertised by the Provincial Government, is an act beyond the powers vested by the Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Otago.

The Memorial is herewith returned.

I have the honor, &c.,
(Signed) W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
&c., &c., &c.

In reply to your Honor's dispatch dated 15th March last, received on the 25th ult., relative to the Memorial of the Otago Provincial Council against the appropriation of Moray Place, as a public reserve in Dunedin, as the site of a proposed Episcopalian Church; and in reply, His Excellency begs to inform your Honor that Government does not intend to comply with the request of the Memorialists, in so far as it may be construed to make over the reserve in question for any purpose officially indicated.

I have the honor, &c.,
(Signed) Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

A Statement of the amount of Notes in Circulation at the Colonial Bank of Issue, on the 18th day of April, 1854:

£5 and upwards .. .. £2,440
Under £5 .. .. 4,338

Total .. .. £6,778

Total amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz:

Gold .. .. £5,289
Silver .. .. 65

Total .. .. £5,354

A. Shepherd,
Colonial Treasurer.

Dated at Dunedin this 19th day of April, 1854.

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

A. Shepherd,
Colonial Treasurer.

MOUNT TO the Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Dunedin, on the 28th April, 1854:

Amount of Notes in Circulation on the 28th day of April, 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz:

£5 and upwards .. .. £18,810
Under £5 .. .. 17,246

Total .. .. £36,056

Total amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz:

Gold .. .. £15,457
Silver .. .. 661

Total .. .. £16,118

Henry S. Hill, being the Acting Manager of the said Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the Notes in circulation, and of the Coin held by the said office as required under Ordinance, No. 16, Session VIII.

Henry S. Hill,
Acting Manager.

Colonial Bank of Issue,
Dunedin, 28th April, 1854.

A STATEMENT of the Notes in Circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 28th April, 1854:

Amount of Notes in Circulation on the 28th day of April, 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz:

£5 and upwards .. .. £18,860
Under £5 .. .. 16,804

Total .. .. £35,664

Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz:

Gold .. .. £2,181
Silver .. .. 105

Total .. .. £2,286

I, Henry S. Hill, being the Acting Manager of the above Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the Notes in circulation, and of the Coins held by the said office as required under Ordinance, No. 16, Session VIII.

Henry S. Hill,
Acting Manager.

Colonial Bank of Issue,
Wellington, 28th May, 1854.

The sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds sterling has been invested, under the Warrant of His Excellency the Governor, in the public funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.—H. St. H.