Provincial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1857.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent has been pleased to appoint

JOHN FREDERICK KNOX, Esq., M.D.,

to be Resident Medical Officer to the Karori Asylum,

The appointment to date from the 1st instant.

By his Honor’s command,

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, July 7th, 1857.

TENDERS will be received at this Office on Monday, the 20th inst., at noon, for building a Culvert over the Kumutoto Stream, on the Wellington Beach. Sections and specifications may be seen at the Engineer’s Office.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

By His Honor’s Command,

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1857.

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

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Nelson, 9th of June, 1857.

SIR,

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of Wellington, Session 3, No. 9, intituled "An Act to vest in the Superintendent the control of the Main Roads in the Province." It is among other things enacted that the Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council, might, by Proclamation, declare that any or all of the offences and penalties for the same, mentioned in the "District Highways’ Act, 1856," in respect of District Highways should be applicable to any Main or Trunk road or any part thereof. And WHEREAS it is deemed expedient that all the offences and penalties for the same mentioned in the District Highways’ Act, 1856, in respect of District Highways should be made applicable to the portions of the Great North Western Road, and the Great North Eastern Road, hereinafter particularly mentioned. Now THEREFORE I, ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Superintendent of the said Province of Wellington, do, with the advice of my Executive Council, hereby proclaim that all the offences and penalties for the same mentioned in the "District Highways Act, 1856," in respect of District Highways shall be applicable to that portion of the Great North Western Main Road which commences at the Town of Wellington and ends at the Paikakariki:—And also to that portion of the Great North Eastern Road which commences at the Town of Wellington and ends at Masterton.

Given under my hand and Issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this twenty sixth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s Command,

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

In the Government Gazette of the Province of Wellington dated the 20th May, 1857, I observe a letter from the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. Fox) to your Honor, in which occur some remarks on my proceedings with respect to applications for Depasturage Licenses during the time I had the honor to hold the office of Commissioner for the Hawke’s Bay District. As these remarks appear to lead to the inference that something irregular or improper was involved in my proceedings, I trust your Honor will excuse my troubling you with the following explanation of the circumstances of the case. May I further request your Honor will oblige me by giving the same publicity to this letter as has been given to that of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Mr. Fox says "In the Hawkes’ Bay District it appeared that Mr. Domett had always requested such applications" (for lands not purchased from the natives) and as I believe without payment of deposits. I have since learned however, that after the issue of the Pasture Regulations of 1855, he, in some instances at least required a deposit, and