PROVINCIAL DISTRICTS DESCRIPTION

6. Tokomairiro District—
   North-east by the Central District.
   North-west by the Ocean.
   South-west by the river Clutha (Matau branch), from its mouth to where the Kainhiku stream or river flows into it; thence by a right line to Charles’s Harbour, on the west coast.
   South-east by the Ocean.

7. Southern District—
   North-east by the Tokomairiro District.
   North-west and West by the Sea Coast.
   South by the Sea Coast.
   East by the Sea Coast.

8. Northern District—
   North by the Canterbury Province.
   South by the Western District.
   East by the Ocean.
   West and South-west by a right line running in a north north-westerly direction from the Trigonometrical station on Flagstaff hill to the boundary of the Province.

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ORDINANCE,

Session II. No. 1, of the Provincial Council of Otago, ASSENTED TO.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 21st February 1865.

His Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to direct the publication of the following extract from his Message No. 8, sent to the Provincial Council this day:

"I have received from the Colonial Secretary at Auckland a Despatch, of which I have ordered a copy to be laid before you, intimating the assent of His Excellency the Officer administering the Government to the 'Provincial Council Ordinance,' Session II. No. 1."

By His Honor’s command,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

MOUNT of the Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, the 9th December 1854:

Amount of Notes in circulation on the 9th day of December 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:
£5 and upwards .......................... £15,170
Under £5 .................................... 20,206

Total ............................................. £35,376

Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz.:
Gold ................................................ £14,821
Silver ............................................... 655

Total ............................................. £15,376

I, Henry St. Hill, Manager of the said 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 Ordinances No. 16, Session VIII., and No. 14, Session XI.

HENRY ST. HILL,
Manager.

Colonial Bank of Issue,
Wellington, 9th Dec. 1854.

The sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds (£20,000) 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.

AMOUNT of the Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, the 6th January, 1855:

Amount of Note in circulation on the 6th day of January 1855, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:
£5 and upwards .......................... £16,670
Under £5 .................................... 20,896

Total ............................................. £37,566

Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz.:
Gold ................................................ £17,010
Silver ............................................... 556

Total ............................................. £17,566

I, Henry St. Hill, Manager of the said 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 Ordinances No. 16, Session VIII., and No. 14, Session XI.

HENRY ST. HILL,
Manager.

Colonial Bank of Issue,
Wellington, 6th January 1855.

The sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds (£20,000) 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.

COLONIAL BANK OF ISSUE.

TOTAL Amount of Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Auckland, on the 6th day of January 1855, being the close of the preceding four weeks:
£5 and upwards .......................... £5,835
Under £5 .................................... 3,691

Total ............................................. £9,526

Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day:
Gold ................................................ £4,078
Silver ............................................... 14

Total ............................................. £4,092

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.

Dated at Auckland,
this 8th day of January 1855.

The sum of Five Thousand Pounds (£5000) 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.

WILLIAM HULME,
Manager.

Printed for the Provincial Government by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin.