that his Excellency may be pleased
both to take them into his own consideration, and to transmit them to the
Secretary for the Colonies for the consideration of her Majesty’s ministers ;
and that copies thereof be transmitted to the members of the General Assembly
for this Province, and to other influential members, in the hope, and
with the expressed wish and desire, that in the event of the Act in question
not being disallowed, it may be repealed in the next Session of the
General Assembly."

JAMES MACANDREW, Speaker.
ROBT. CHAPMAN, Clerk of Council.

ADDRESS

OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT ON PROROGUING THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,
16TH NOVEMBER 1858.

Gentlemen of the Provincial Council,

THE business of the Session having been brought to a close, it is now my duty
to release you from further attendance.

The confidence you have reposed in my administration, as manifested by the liberal
grants you have made for public objects, is to me highly gratifying. It will be my
study to justify that confidence by the economical application of our resources,
and by engaging in no undertaking without seeing the probability of my possessing
the means for carrying it on.

The provision that you have made for Immigration enables me to authorise the
Agents of the Province, in the Home country, to resume their labours in that Department; and no time will be lost in
giving them the necessary instructions.

The terms of the contract for carrying out the measure that you have adopted,
for a monthly communication with Melbourne by means of a steam vessel, are being adjusted; and I trust that all the
benefits anticipated from it will be fully realised.

The important resolutions you have passed, relative to Education—the Endowment of Towns—Public Works—and
the New Provinces Act and Waste Lands Act, severally merit my commendation ; and the duty devolved on me by these
several Resolutions, you may rely with confidence upon me performing.

I have assented to the following Bills in name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor, viz. :—

The Immigration Fund Ordinance,
Cattle Trespass Ordinance,
Leases of Provincial Trust Lands Ordinance,
Pastoral Districts Ordinance,
Jetties and Wharves Ordinance,
The Appropriation Ordinance, No. 1,
and
The Appropriation Ordinance, No. 2.

The Loan Ordinance, passed in this Session, it is my duty to reserve for the signification of His Excellency’s pleasure thereon ; and in transmitting it for that purpose, I shall not fail to urge the expediency of His Excellency giving it his most favourable consideration.

Gentlemen, with the expression of my earnest desire, and confident expectation, that in your several spheres you will cooperate with me in promoting the advancement of the Province, and giving contentment to the inhabitants in all its parts, that they may continue to be knit together by the ties of a common interest, and to grow stronger and more influential by a determined unity, it only remains for me to prorogue the Council, and it now stands prorogued accordingly.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 16th November, 1858.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 9th November 1858.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed

MR. ROBERT SHORT

to be Acting Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board during the temporary absence of Mr. Cutten.

By order,

JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

DUNEDIN TOWN BOARD.

ELECTION OF FOUR PERSONS MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD.

IN pursuance of the “ Dunedin Town Board Ordinance,” Sess. II., No. 23 A, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby appoint the Electors entitled to vote for Members for the Town of Dunedin, in the Provincial Council of Otago, to assemble upon MONDAY, the 13th day of December 1858, at 12 o’clock noon, within the Hall of the Mechanic’s Institution, Princes Street, Dunedin, for the purpose of Electing Four Persons to be Members of the said Town Board, in room of Messrs. William Lambert, Robert Chapman, William Langlands, and William Henry Cutten, who go out of office on the first Wednesday of December 1858.

And further, in pursuance of said Ordinance, I hereby appoint JOHN GILLIES, Esquire, of Dunedin, R.M., to preside at