REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT.

We congratulate your Honor on your election to the office of Superintendent, and trust that your term of office may be prosperous and beneficial to the Province.

We concur with your Honor in the importance attached to the relations between the General and Provincial Governments, and although aware that legislation on such a subject is beyond our province, any Resolutions that may be submitted to us again receive our careful attention.

We shall again devote our attention to the consideration of the Land question, and concur with your Honor in the expression of a hope that the Resolutions we shall pass will be such as shall obtain the assent of the General Assembly.

We regret the pecuniary loss to the Province consequent on the low price realised for the Debentures issued under the authority of the Loan Ordinance of 1862.

We concur in the expression of a hope that continued and unvaried prosperity await the Gold Fields, and that the results attending the discovery of Quartz Reefs, Copper, and other minerals, will prove important additions to the resources of the Province.

Any feasible proposal for the construction of Railways in the Province shall receive our serious consideration.

We are gratified to learn that your Honor has been able, during the recess, to carry out our wishes as regards the commencement of the Oamaru Jetty and the Government Buildings.

We shall be glad if the funds at our disposal will permit us to vote a sum in aid of Immigration from Great Britain.

It is a matter for congratulation to receive from your Honor an assurance that the recent exodus has not to any very great extent had the effect of diminishing the revenue of the Province.

J. RICHARDSON, Speaker.

CHAS. SMITH, Clerk of Council.

NOTICE

WHEREAS it is intended to stop up those Roads and Portions of Roads referred to in the “Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1865,” situate in the District of Puerua, and which are hereinafter described, and are delineated on the maps or plans mentioned and referred to in the “Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1865,” a copy of which plans have been deposited in the Public School at Puerua, the said District:—Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the power vested in me in that behalf by the “Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1865,” do hereby give notice that all persons objecting to the stopping up of such Roads, or Portions of Roads, or any of them, are required to set forth a statement in writing of any well-grounded objections they may have to the stopping up of such Roads, or Portions of Roads, and to leave such statement, addressed to me, at my Office, in Dunedin, within sixty days from the date hereof, otherwise such objections will not be considered by me.

PUERUA ROAD DISTRICT.

1.—Twenty-six (26) chains in length, sixty (60) links wide, from Puerua River, on section eight (8), block twenty (20), to District Road on section four (4), block twenty (20), Clutha District; boundaries, east, section six (6) and part of sections four (4) and eight (8), block twenty (20); west, section five (5) and part of sections three (3) and seven (7), block twenty-five (25), Clutha Survey District.

2.—Thirty-one (31) chains in length, sixty (60) links wide, from District Road on section four (4), block twenty (20), to District Road on section twelve (12), block nineteen (19), Clutha Survey District; boundaries, east, section two (2) and part of section four (4), block twenty (20), and part of section twelve (12), block nineteen (19); west, section one (1) and part of section three (3), block twenty-five (25), and part of section eleven (11), block twenty-four (24), Clutha Survey District.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.