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money in the hands of Messrs Willis & Co. in Immigration. On this subject papers will be laid before you shewing the expenditure on account of immigrants by the ship Cashmere, and the balance of the original sum remitted to England, to the credit of the Province.

Connected with land, as deriving its only endowment from it, is the subject of Education, which has engaged my serious attention for some time. As a preliminary and right step it would be desirable to appoint an Education Board. This would materially facilitate any legislative measure the Council might hereafter agree to upon the subject. An equally necessary step appears to be the revising of the Land Regulations, and the altering of the proportions of land now appropriated for Educational purposes. The large quantities of land now set apart defeat the scheme, the land not being sufficiently valuable to form an endowment for present usefulness.

The Rural lands in the Waiwakaiho and Hua districts have already been offered to the holders of original Suburban and Rural land orders, under the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly, and they are now ready to be offered for purchase under the Land Regulations of the Province, soon as the Council shall approve of a Notice to that effect.

Bills on the following subjects will be laid before you :—

Annulling Town Sales
Appropriation
Public Works Amendment
Cart
Fencing
Charge for Custody of Grants
American Blight
Impounding Amendment

The Public Works Ordinance is of considerable practical utility to the Province, but it has failed to fulfil the designs of its framers. I have deemed it expedient to make such alterations respecting roads as may render it more useful, by obliging an annual rate, which will for the future prevent them from getting so seriously out of repair. The Cart Bill will, I trust, receive the serious consideration of the Council. It is framed with the object of relieving the land from a maximum rate by taxing the carts and carriages which really destroy the roads. I am in great hopes that the Natives in may be induced to contribute their quota towards the repairs of the highways. The want of a law regulating fencing and the apportionment of it between adjoining owners, has been much felt. The fencing bill has been prepared with a careful attention to the requirements of the Province, but dealing as it does with a variety of private interests, I would recommend its provisions to your serious consideration.

I find I have not been able in this address to speak of ourselves apart from the Natives, so intimately are we associated, notwithstanding the difference of race. We have happily witnessed the termination of the native strife without being drawn into it. It was not carried on for upwards of two years without exciting those apprehensions which the near approach of wild and hostile tribes, seeking each others' lives, was sure to occasion, and the Government, whilst it resolutely declined to interfere in the feud, met our appeal by despatching a powerful land Force from both points of the Island to protect our neutrality. Since which a feeling of security for life and property has been uninterruptedly enjoyed, and should the Natives, unhappily, at any future time be at variance, we shall still feel we are sufficiently protected. For this it will afford me the utmost pleasure to unite with the Council in a formal expression of thanks to His Excellency Colonel Wynyard, the Commander of the Forces, to whom, whilst the Officer Administering the Government, we now owe the presence of a Garrison in Taranaki.

GEORGE CUTFIELD,
Superintendent.
New Plymouth, 6th May, 1857.

NOTICE.

Council Chamber,
New Plymouth, May 7th, 1857.

SUBJECT to the approval of the Provincial Council of the Province of New Plymouth, I have appointed

RICHARD CHILMAN

to be Clerk of the Provincial Council, the appointment to date from the 6th instant.

E. L. HUMPHRIES,
Speaker.

Provincial Treasurer's Office,
New Plymouth, 2nd May, 1857.

LIST of Persons to whom Licenses have been granted to act as Auctioneers for the year ending the 24th April, 1858 :—

FRANCIS ULLATHORN GLEDHILL, Merchant, Town of New Plymouth.
ALEXANDER KING, Auctioneer, Town of New Plymouth.

ROBERT PARRIS,
Provincial Treasurer.

Printed by G. W. WOON for the Provincial Government.