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out an Exhibition of Agricultural and Industrial Products, and Manufactures of the Colony of New Zealand, and such products and manufactures of other Countries as may be calculated to be useful in the development of the said Colony. And whereas by the aforesaid Letters Patent, authority is given to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of the said Colony to appoint in the several Provinces Local Committees, for the purpose of encouraging the production of articles to be exhibited, of transmitting them to Dunedin, and of conducting communication between Exhibitors and the Commissioners. And whereas I JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did on the 16th day of December last, appoint certain persons to act as such Local Committee for the Province of Otago. And whereas, it is expedient that certain other persons hereinafter mentioned should be added to such Local Committee, to act in conjunction with the persons so appointed as aforesaid. Now, therefore, I, in exercise of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do appoint the gentlemen hereinafter mentioned to form part of the said Local Committee.

Rev. William Bannerman, Clutha
John Christie, Waikouaiti
Charles Connor, Oamaru
Algernon Gifford, Oamaru
William Johnston, Port Chalmers
James Kirkland, Clutha
Philippe Aime Martin, Dunstan
James W. McNaughton, Anderson’s Bay
John McNicol, Waihola
Alexander Bruce Todd, Tokomairiro
James Urie, Pumahaka
William Will, Taieri
Francis John Alderson, Esq., Dunedin
Edward William Alexander, Esq., M.R.C.S., Dunedin
James Allen, Esq., Taieri
John Bathgate, Esq., Dunedin
Robert Leith Begg, Esq., Molyneux
James Benn Bradshaw, Esq., Queenstown
Thomas Hood Brown, Esq., Queenstown
John Buchanan, Esq., Dunedin
James Julian Coates, Esq., Dunstan
George Cowie, Esq., Dunedin
William Dalrymple, Esq., Dunedin
James Douglas, Esq., M.D. Arrow
James A. Douglas, Esq., Dunedin
John Douglas, Esq., Caversham
John Drummond, Esq., Tuapeka
Thomas Rider Hackett, Esq., Dunedin
Thomas Horton, Esq., Queenstown
David Hutchinson, Esq., Dunedin and Oamaru
Julius Hyman, Esq., Dunedin
William Grey, Esq., Waihola
James George Lewis, Esq., Clutha
John Lock, Esq., Oamaru
Andrew Lockhart, Esq., Queenstown
William Anderson Lowe, Esq., Dunstan
James Chrystal Mallach, Esq., Port Chalmers
Alexander Mollison, Esq., M.P.C., Waihola
John Morrison, Esq., Port Chalmers
William Nixon Morton, Esq., Wakatipu
Neil Joseph Bruce McGregor, Esq., Taieri
John Reid M’Kenzie, Esq., Dunedin
Alexander M’Landress, Esq., Dunedin
Donald McMaster, Esq., Waihola
William Gilbert Rees, Esq., Wakatipu
Donald Reid, Esq., M.P.C., Taieri
Frederick Edwin Rich, Esq., Moeraki
Thomas Robertson, Esq., Port Chalmers
William Shaw, Esq., Dunedin
Watson Sherman, Esq., Dunstan
Henry Stratford, Esq., Dunstan
Thomas M. Wilkinson, Esq., Dunedin
William Charles Wright, Esq., Wakatipu

Given under my hand at Dunedin, and issued under the Public Seal
(L.S.)
of the Province of Otago, this 29th day of March, 1864.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Dunedin, 28th March, 1864.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

BENJAMIN BRITTON,
a member of the Police force, to be Inspector of Common Lodging Houses, under the “Common Lodging House Ordinance, 1862.”

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

SALE OF HARBOUR RECLAIMED LAND.

The Lease of 15 feet by 81 feet being portion of section 12, adjoining section 13, of the Harbour Reclaimed Lands as set down on the map issued in connection with the sale of the lease of these lands which took place on the 9th March inst., will be submitted for sale by public auction, on the ground, on Wednesday, the 6th day of April proximo, at 1 p.m.

The lease will be for 99 years, and the annual ground rent £1 per foot on each frontage to Crawford and Bond Streets respectively.

The bonus may be arranged by deferred payments. Particulars and other information to be had on application at this office.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary of Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Dunedin, 29th March, 1864.

TIME for acceptance of Tenders for Ship Chandlery is extended to Thursday, 7th April.

For specifications and tender forms, &c., apply to the office of the Provincial Storekeeper.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

TENDERS ACCEPTED.

Forage for Police Station, West Taieri, till 30th June, 1864. — James Shand. Oats, 6s. per bushel, Bran, 2s. 9d. do.

Do. for Station, Deep Stream, till 30th June, 1864. — James Shand. Hay, £8 per ton, Oats, 9s. per bushel, Bran, 3s. 6d. per do.

Oaten Straw, for Dunedin, during 1864. — Joseph Allan. £4 10s. per ton.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

Erection of Jetty and Store, Taieri Mouth. — Sutherland Sinclair. £348 18s. 7d.

Goods Shed at the Jetty Dunedin. — C. Nees. £640.

Dunedin to West Taieri. Erection of Viaduct on the Dunedin and West Taieri Road. — James Boyle. £381 11s.

Road. — Dunstan to Kawarau. Erection of Bridge over River Clutha, near Kawarau Junction. — David Proudfoot and Benjamin Armitage. £6,800.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary of Public Works.