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conveying a Resolution agreed to by the
Provincial Council having reference to fresh
Native outrages within the Bell Block.

In reply to your letter I beg to inform
you that my instructions confine me to the
defence of the Town, and I would recom-
mend the inhabitants of the district, should
circumstances render such a step advisable,
to send their families in, at the same time
it would be well seriously to consider the
consequences of any act which would in-
volve the Government in measures calcu-
lated to lead to armed collision with the
Natives.

I have, &c.,
G. F. MURRAY,
Brev. Major Commanding Troops.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
New Plymouth, 4th February, 1858.

THE following Despatch from the Colo-
nial Secretary, with its enclosure, is
published for general information.

I. N. WATT,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 17th December, 1857.

Sir,—I have the honor to transmit a copy
of the Gazette of the 16th instant containing
a Proclamation appointing certain stations
for the performance of Quarantine, also
Quarantine Regulations and a notification
of the appointment of Health Officers to
carry out those regulations at those places
respectively.

As it is very important that every pre-
caution should be taken to prevent the in-
troduction of the small pox which at pre-
sent exists at Melbourne, I have to request
that your Honor will be good enough to
issue instructions to the Harbour Master
scrupulously to put the necessary questions
on the arrival of all vessels as it depends
almost entirely on the vigilance of that of-
ficer in this respect whether the presence of
small pox or any other dangerous disease is
detected and consequently whether the Re-
gulations for the performance of Quarantine,
required upon the existence of disease being
ascertained can be brought into operation.

Your Honor will observe that the Co-
lonial Surgeon has been appointed Health
Officer for the purpose of carrying out these
Regulations as it was thought advisable that
the same officer who supervised other me-
dical matters affecting the health of the com-
munity should have the control in the case
of dangerous diseases being imported.

I have, &c.,
E. W. STAFFORD.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and its dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted
by the Governor of New Zealand,
with the advice and consent of the Legis-
lative Council thereof, Session 2, No. 15,
intituled "An Ordinance to provide for the
Regulation of Harbours," it is amongst
other things enacted, that the Governor
shall, from time to time, by Proclamation,
appoint Stations or Places for the perform-
ance of Quarantine by vessels bound to the
several Harbours of the Colony: Now,
therefore, in pursuance of the authority in
me vested by the said recited Ordinance, I,
the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and appoint the following Stations
for the performance of Quarantine, viz:—

For the Port of Auckland—Hobson's
Bay, or Shoal Bay, on the North side
of the Harbour.

For the Port of Wangarei—Between the
Calliope Bank and the main land on
the East side of the entrance to the
Harbour, about three quarters of a mile
North of the ordinary anchoring ground
off the Custom House.

For the Bay of Islands—To the South of
the Island of Moturoa, between it and
the Brampton Shoal.

For the Port of Mongonui—In an in-
dentation in Doubtless Bay, just out-
side the entrance to Mongonui Har-
bour, and to the North East thereof.
For the Port of Kaipara—In the Wairoa
River, immediately below the Custom
House.

For the Port of Manukau—Within the
Bluff, where the Harbour widens out
from the entrance.

For the Port of New Plymouth—In the
roadstead, about a mile North-west of
the centre Sugar Loaf.

For the Port of Wellington—Evans' Bay,
Port Nicholson.

For the Port of Whanganui—About one
mile within the Heads of the River,
midway between the entrance and the
Languard Bluff.

For the Port of Napier—In the roadstead
off the entrance to the Harbour.

For the Port of Nelson—Outside the
Haven, clear of the tideway therefrom,
towards the East entrance of the Wai-
mea River.