levied in this Province would either have been expended within
and for the benefit of the Province: or, which is more likely,
would not have been levied at all. As it is, it seems to me to
be absolutely essential for the best interests of the Colony, as
well as of this Province, that a system which has produced such
results should be modified or curbed, and that the only practical
mode of effecting this is for the two islands to separate. So
long as the General Government is able to play the one off
against the other, so surely will it maintain its supremacy
with
all its attendant evils. I have long hoped that the unity of
the colony did not necessarily involve the evils to which I have
adverted. It seems now, however, to be hoping against hope ;
and as practical men it behoves us to go in for Separation—
separation which, divested of all sentimentality, means reduced
taxation, and the expenditure of our own revenue on local
purposes; it means a great and united Colony, years before
it could otherwise be. But it must be borne in mind that
Separation can only be obtained from the Imperial Legislature,
and that, in the meanwhile, much may be secured from the
Assembly which, though short of Separation, will materially
redress the evils under which we labor.

With this object, resolutions will be submitted to you concerning the relations between the General and Provincial
Governments, and by assenting to them I hope you will
strengthen the hands of the Representatives of the Province in
the Assembly, and place them in a position to coalesce with the
members of other Provinces.

I have now to declare the Council open for the despatch of
business.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be
notified that he has been pleased to appoint
ARTHUR JOHN BURNS, Esquire, M.P.C.,
to be a member of the Executive Council of the Province
of Otago.

JOHN MOUAT,
Provincial Secretary.

May 1, 1867.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be
notified that
WILLIAM HUNTER REYNOLDS, Esquire,
was this day elected by the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago to be the Speaker of the said
Provincial Council, and that the said election has been
duly confirmed by his Honor the Superintendent.

JOHN MOUAT,
Provincial Secretary.

1st May, 1867.

PROCLAMATION.

Boundaries of Waihola East and Waihola West Road
Districts altered and diminished, and boundaries of
Milburn Road District enlarged.

By His Honor JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the
Province of Otago, intituled the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1865,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that
until otherwise provided, pursuant to the provisions of
the said Ordinance, there should be sixty-one Districts,
which should be named as specified in the Schedule to
the said Ordinance, annexed, marked B: And it is
also by the said Ordinance provided that it should be
lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and
consent of the Otago General Road Board, from time to
time, by Proclamation in the Gazette, to alter, vary,
diminish, or enlarge the boundaries of any or all of
such Districts: And whereas it is expedient to alter
and diminish the boundaries of the Waihola East and
Waihola West, and enlarge the boundaries of the
Milburn Road Districts in the manner and as described
in Schedule hereto: Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province, with the
advice and consent of the Otago General Road Board,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of
the said Waihola East and Waihola West Road Districts
shall, from the day of the date hereof, be altered and
diminished, and that the boundaries of the said Milburn
Road Districts shall be enlarged as described in the
Schedule hereto.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public
Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this
1st May, 1867.

(L.S.) first day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,
JOHN MOUAT,
Secretary Public Works.

POSTAL CONFERENCE.—[See New Zealand
Gazette of 15th April, 1867, No. 24.]

LIST of Persons Applying for Relief under “The
Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862, 1865, and
1866” :—

Thomas Robbins Fryer, of the Shotover Gorge,
Queenstown, Otago, Miner.

John Baker, of Tuapeka, Otago, Blacksmith.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, April 30, 1867.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, April 12, 1867, No. 23.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, April 10, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has in Her Majesty’s
name, summoned

The Hon. JOHN LARKIN CHEESE RICHARDSON,
of Willowmead, Molyneux, and

The Hon. JOHN MCLAN, of Morven Hills, Lindis,
to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by Writs of
Summons under the Seal of the Colony.

E. W. STAFFORD.

SCHEDULE.

Milburn Road District shall comprise all that area
bounded on the north by the northern boundary of
Block I, Table Hill Survey District; on the west by
the North Branch of the Tokomairiro River, as far as
Section 2, Block II, Table Hill Survey District; on the
south-west by Sections 10 and 13, Block I, Sections
39, 46, 51, 58, 63, 70, 76, and 80, Tokomairiro Survey
District, Sections 9 and 4, and a direct line through
Sections 1 and 2, to south-west angle of Section 3,
Block II, Akatore Survey District; and on the north-east by Sections 11, 14, 17, 18, Block III, Clarendon, and by Section 16, Block II, by Sections 9
and 4, Block I, Waihola Survey District, and by Application 2130, Table Hill Survey District.

Waihola West Road District shall comprise all that
area bounded towards the west, by the leading range to
the interior from Trig. Station Q, Clarendon Survey
District, on the north by a line due east to Trig. Station M, Clarendon Survey District; from thence by a
road line to Section 1, Block XVII, Waihola Survey
District; thence by that Section, and Section 2, Block
XV, to Waihola Lake; thence by a line crossing Lake,
to south corner of Section 5, Block XXII, Waihola
Survey District; on the south-east by the Waihola
East Road District, to southern angle of Section 9; on
the south by Sections 10, 3 and 2, Waihola Survey
District; on the north-west and west by application
2130, Section 22, Block I, Table Hill, in a direct line
from north-east corner of said Section XXII, to Trig.
Station Q, point of commencement.

Waihola East Road District commences at the north-east angle of Section 17, Block I, Clarendon, and shall
comprise all that area bounded on the south-east by the
water-shed of the ranges and a road line from Taieri
Ferry to Section 17, Block II, Waihola Survey District;
on the south-west by said Sections 17, 18, and 15, Waihola Survey District; and on the north-west by the
Main South Road to Waihola Lake, along shore of said
Lake to the northern boundary of Block XXII, Waihola
Survey District, thence following the northern boundary
of said Block and a branch of Taieri River to point of
commencement.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public
Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this
(L.S.) first day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,
JOHN MOUAT,
Secretary Public Works.