Otago Provincial Gazette – 1858 – No. 78

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✨ Provincial Government Address

OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

Vol. III.] WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1858. [No. 78.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 24th November 1858.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following Documents, &c.

By Order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

ADDRESS
OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT AT
THE OPENING OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL, 3RD NOVEMBER 1858.

GENTLEMEN,— I have been under the necessity of calling you together at this time as the Constitution Act has required you to be assembled, in order to be within one year of your last Session.

Since your last prorogation, many important Acts, affecting Provincial interests, have been passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, which Acts were only reserved on the 18th of October, ult. The Superintendent, in the discharge of his duties as your Representative, has been absent from the Province for several months. The Provincial Solicitor and a Member of the Executive, have been laid aside from their duties, the one through a serious accident, the other through illness, which has resulted in his resignation, and involved the necessity of appointing another member in his room. This concurrence of events on the very eve of your being assembled, has made it impossible to prepare the business for your present meeting with the fulness and deliberation which is due to it; and it is therefore proposed to limit the business on this occasion to such matters as are immediately and pressingly called for; to give a general view of the further objects to be considered; and, should you deem it advisable, to prorogue the House for some four or five months, in order that the necessary Bills and Resolutions may be maturely prepared for your consideration.

The estimates of Revenue and Expenditure will now be laid before you—on which, it will be observed, with respect to sums which you will be asked to vote for Public Works, Immigration, and Steam, and which are largely in excess of the estimated revenue, that, on the one hand, the actual expenditure or contracts to expend, will be kept within the revenue received, and without exceeding the amount fixed by law for borrowing on Provincial debentures—and, on the other hand, that

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