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REMARKS.—The month on the whole was very fine, and the mildest August in nine years. There was very little snow, and no hard frost. The only gale occurred on the 28th; thunder was audible on the 19th, but no lightning was visible.

CHARLES ROUS MARTEN,
Director of Meteorological Stations,
Southland.

NOTE.—I have received no report from the Bluff Station for the month of August.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th August, 1866.

THE following Despatch with enclosure, from Her Majesty’s principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

[Circular.]
Downing-street, 7th May, 1866.

SIR,—With reference to previous correspondence, I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Secretary and Executive Commissioner in this country for the Paris Exhibition of 1867, suggesting that contributions should be obtained from Her Majesty’s various Colonies of the periodical and ephemeral publications of each Colony for the year 1865, in aid of a collection for that Exhibition.

I have, &c.,
EDWARD CARDWELL.

Governor Sir G. Grey, K.C.B.

Mr. Cole to the Under Secretary of State.
Paris Exhibition, 1867.
South Kensington, 26th April, 1866.

SIR,—I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to request you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that their Lordships have determined to have exhibited, in the Paris Exhibition of 1867, a collection illustrative of the periodical and ephemeral literature of the present time, which would include one specimen of every newspaper, journal, scientific, artistic, or literary magazine, review, or other periodical, tract, playbill, and the like, published during 1865.

My Lords are desirous that the literature of a similar character that has been published during the same period in each of Her Majesty’s Colonies and Dependencies should be represented, and I am to request that you will move Mr. Secretary Cardwell to issue instructions to cause such a collection to be made in such Colony, and sent to Paris; the same when made, would be purchased by the Science and Art Department, for the South Kensington Museum.

I have, &c.,
HENRY COLE,
Secretary and Executive Commissioner.

The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.

NOTICE.
Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 3rd September, 1866.

THE Registrar of Brands having represented to the Government the desirability of publishing all the brands hitherto registered under the Cattle Branding Ordinance, 1862, and in order that the said return shall embrace all brands now in use in the province, notice is hereby given that the said return will be published one month from this date.

And that upon application at the office of Registrar of Brands a complete return of those brands can be had for 2s 6d each.

JOHN P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 1st September, 1866.

THE undermentioned Town Sections will be Sold by Auction, at the Land Office, on Wednesday, the 3rd day of October, at 12 o’clock, in terms of the provisions of the “Southland Waste Land Act, 1865,”

Sections No. 6 and 15, Block II; 4, 6, and 7, Block III; and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 21, 22, Block IV, Winton Township.

JNO. P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Southland, by RAYNOLDS AND CO., of Invercargill N. Z., Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.