Section 11 to 19, block XI, Dalhousie
,, 1 to 9, block XII, do
,, 11 & 12, do
,, 14 to 19, do
,, 13, block I, Waipori
,, 18 & 19, do
,, 24 to 28, do
,, 1 to 6, block II, do
,, 1 to 14, block III, do
,, 13 to 24, block IV, do
,, 1, block V, do
,, 1 & 2, block VI, do
,, 1 to 9, block I, Newcastle
,, 11 & 12, do
,, 17 to 19, do
,, 21 to 29, do
,, 31 & 32, do
,, 34 to 37, do
,, 1 & 2, block II, do
,, 4 to 12, do
,, 14 to 22, do
,, 24 to 29, do
,, 31 & 32, do
,, 34 to 42, do
,, 44 & 45, do
,, 1 to 7, block III, do
,, 9 to 17, do
,, 20, do
,, 1 to 7, block IV, do
,, 9, do
,, 1 to 7, block V, do
,, 9 to 17, do
,, 19 to 21, do
,, 23 & 24, do
,, 1 to 3, block VI, do
,, 5 to 13, do
,, 15 to 20, do
,, 1 to 3, block VII, do
,, 5 to 10, do
,, 12 & 13, do
,, 15 to 23, do
,, 25 to 33, do
,, 35 & 36, do
,, 1 to 4, block VIII, do
,, 1 & 2, block
,, 3 to 11, do
,, 2 to 10, block
,, 1 to 9, block XI, do
,, 1 to 9, block I, Pembroke
,, 11 to 19, do
,, 21 to 23, do
,, 25 to 29, do
,, 31 & 32, do
,, 2 to 7, block II, do
,, 9 to 17, do
,, 19 to 21, do
,, 25 to 27, do
,, 29 to 32, do
,, 8 to 15, block III, do
,, 17 to 22, do
,, 25, and 27 to 32, do
,, 1 & 2, block IV, do
,, 5 to 8, do
,, 1 to 5, 7 & 8, block V, do
,, 1 to 7, block VI, do
,, 1 to 9, block I, Gladstone
,, 11 to 13, do
,, 1 to 6, block II, do
,, 8 to 16, do
,, 18, 19, 21 to 23, do
,, 1 to 3, block III, do
,, 5 to 13, do
,, 15 to 19, do
,, 1 to 4, block IV, do
,, 6 to 10, do
,, 12 to 14, do
,, 16 to 18, do
,, 1 to 6, block V, do
,, 8 to 16, & 18, do

Section 1 to 7, 10 & 11, block VI, Gladstone
,, 1 to 5, block VII, do
,, 1 to 3, block VIII, do
,, 5 to 9, do
,, 1 to 4, block IX, do
,, 6 & 7, do

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

NOTIFICATION

NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of the powers vested in me by the "Impounding Ordinance 1862," I have established a Public Pound, situated on part of the River Section Number One, Taieri District, in the Province of Otago; and that I have appointed

SAMUEL O'KANE,
of Otakia, hotel-keeper, to be the Keeper of the said Pound.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

Superintendent’s Office, Dunedin,
4th December, 1869.

ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT on the Opening of the Twenty-Sixth Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, on Wednesday, 8th December, 1869:—

MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL:—

I have felt constrained, very reluctantly, to call you together at the present time, knowing, as I do, that the attendance of many of you involves considerable personal inconvenience. I felt, however, that to defer the Session until the usual period of meeting would be to postpone the commencement of a work which ought ere now to have been completed—I allude to the construction of the Southern Trunk Railway.

With regard to this, and the question of Hundreds, as there are differences of opinion between myself and my responsible advisers, I propose to address you by message presently, fully explaining the nature and extent of those differences.

You are no doubt aware that negotiations have been for some time pending between the Government and a number of gentlemen in Dunedin for the construction of a Railway between Dunedin and Port Chalmers. These negotiations having fallen through, the Government have accepted the offer of a contracting firm in Dunedin to construct the Railway under a guarantee of interest at 8 per cent. on £70,000, to be secured on the Jetty Dues, in terms of your resolution of last Session, adequate security to be given by the contractor for the due completion of the work within 18 months. The details of the contract are being prepared; and we may expect the work to be commenced within the next two months.

In compliance with your resolution of last Session, three delegates were appointed on behalf of this Province to confer with an equal number representing the Province of Southland, with a view of arranging a basis of re-union between the two Provinces. The Report of the Commissioners will be placed before you, as also the resolution of the Provincial Council of Southland, which, I am happy to say, has, by a large majority, concurred in the Report of the Commissioners. It now depends chiefly upon you to decide whether or not the two Provinces, which never ought to have been separated, shall be re-united and resume those functions of genuine colonisation which were prosecuted with greater vigor prior to the separation, than they have been ever since.

To those who take a comprehensive view of the future, it cannot but be a matter of congratulation that two such important Provinces as Otago and Southland