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FORM B.

A return of all Gunpowder, Shot, and Percussion Caps sold by the undersigned between the 1st day of 1857, and the 1st day of 1858.

(Signed) A. B.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, July 14th, 1857.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to authorize the undermentioned Gentlemen to grant Licenses for the importation and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, etc., in conformity with the provisions of the Proclamation, of the 25th June, 1857,—

JOSIAH FLIGHT, Esq., New Plymouth.
JOHN PORTRER, Esq., Nelson.
HENRY GODFREY GOULAND, Esq., Wellington.
STEPHEN LUNN MULLER, Esq., Wairau.
HENRY ST. HILL, Esq., Wellington.
DAVID STARK DURIE, Esq., Wanganui.
JOHN CURLING, Esq., Napier.
WILLIAM JOHN WARBURTON HAMILTON, Esq., Lyttelton.
JOHN HALL, Esq., Christchurch.
JOHN WATSON, Esq., Akaroa.
JOHN GILLIES, Esq., Dunedin.
ANDREW JAMIESON ELLIS, Esq., Invercargill.

These appointments respectively to take effect from the date in which the Proclamation above referred to comes into force in each Province.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1857.

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

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

(Circular.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, July 6th., 1857.

Sir —

Referring to the Financial Resolution passed by the General Assembly, in its last Session, which if carried into effect by the aid of the Imperial Government, would make the Land Fund Provincial Revenue, and especially to the 17th of those Resolutions, I have to inform your Honor that, in a Despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated the 28th February last, Mr. Labouchere expresses himself to the following effect—

“I have no expectation that Her Majesty’s Government will entertain and recommend to Parliament the proposal to guarantee a Loan of £500,000, to the Colonial Government.”

“It was only under very special circumstances, as pointed out in his Despatch of 4th July 1855, that my predecessor, Lord John Russell, felt himself warranted in suggesting an arrangement for the settlement of the New Zealand Company’s debt by means of a Loan, not exceeding £500,000, to be guaranteed by the Imperial Treasury, on the conditions then specified.”

“No grounds whatever have been stated, which would justify an extension of the guarantee proposed by Lord John Russell, to the further loans which the New Zealand Legislature desire to contract, and no arrangements based upon the guarantee for £500,000 thus proposed can therefore be carried into effect.”

“It would seem from the 15th of the Resolutions passed on the 2nd July last, that it is the proposal of the House of Representatives, that the arrangements detailed in these Resolutions, should take effect in and from the 1st July, 1856. At the same time it is proposed by the 16th Resolution that this arrangement should be effectuated by an Act of Parliament, for which application is made. I am, therefore, unable distinctly to understand the operation of these Resolutions taken together, which probably Mr. Sewell will be able to explain. But I cannot suppose, that it was intended by a simple Resolution of the House of Representatives to set aside the express provisions of enactments of the Imperial Parliament, and I assume, that no Acts will have been done in pursuance of that Resolution, until it should be ascertained that they were conformable to law.”

Mr. Labouchere also intimates that the Imperial Government would not come to a positive conclusion until they had the benefit of the information possessed by Mr. Sewell, (not then arrived) with respect to the questions submitted for their decision.

I have to add that Mr. Sewell arrived.