Wainui-o-mata road strikes the said bank,
thence along the northern boundary of
the said section 14. Eastward to the
eastern boundary line of the Hutt district, and thence along the said eastern
boundary line of the Hutt District to the
eastern corner of the said section 67,
Hutt district.

And that the land within such district
belonging to aboriginal inhabitants shall
be excepted from the Rate.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Province of Wellington, at
Wellington, the Twenty-first day
of November, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st Nov. 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has been pleased to appoint

John GRACE, Esq.,

to be the Officer to receive Claims to the
right of voting in the assessment or determination of the repairing rate and
Election of the Board of Commissioners
for the Wainui-o-mata Roads District,
and to perform the other duties required
by such Officer, under the Act Session I.
No. 21, entitled “An Act for the making,
maintaining, repairing, and management
of Country Roads, within the Province of
Wellington.”

By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, Nov. 25th, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has directed that the following gentlemen
serve as members of the said Provincial
Council, viz., for the City of Wellington,

John DORSET, Esq., J.P., and
William HICKSON, Esq., J.P.

And for the Wellington Country District,

CHARLES WILLIAM SCHULTZE, Esq.

By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, Nov. 25, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has directed the publication of the following Despatches, for general information.

By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 17th November, 1854.

Circular.

SIR,—I am directed by His Excellency
the Officer Administering the Government, to inform your Honor, that it appears from the following statement that
the estimated surplus of the General
Revenue for the year ending 30th June,
1855, is £77,433.

Receipts.
Land Fund Receipts ... £100,000
Customs & other Receipts ... 100,000

Total Receipts ... £200,000

Expenditure.
New Zealand Company’s debt ... 25,000
Land Purchases ... 20,000
Surveys, &c. ... 14,557
Civil List ... 16,000
Customs Department ... 10,513
Expenses provided by Appropriation Act ... 36,447

Total Expenditure ... £122,567

To be divided amongst the Provinces ... £77,433

The distribution of this surplus will be
effected out of the current Receipts, and
accordingly the several Treasurers will be
instructed to pay over monthly to the
Provincial Chests, one half of the net
Customs Receipts, and the Commissioners of Crown Lands to pay over one-half of the balance of the Land Fund
Receipts remaining, after deducting the
New Zealand Company’s Debt, and cost
of Surveys, in each Province.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

His Honor the Superintendent,
Wellington.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, Nov. 30th, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified for
general information, that writs for the
election of two members to serve in the
Provincial Council, for the city of Wellington, and for the election of one member for the Wellington Country District,
having been issued in accordance with
clause 12, of “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand,” the Returning Officer has
returned the said Writs with a Certificate
to the effect that the undermentioned
gentlemen have been duly elected to