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to the following extent: the Government to guarantee that the rate of passage money shall not exceed £15 per adult; the applicant to have the option of either at once paying to the Government £12 as the whole amount of his contribution, or of paying one half of the passage money at the time of making his application, and giving security for the payment of the other moiety on the arrival of the party sent for, with the understanding that on payment of the last moiety at the time specified he will be entitled to the bonus of £3 proposed by the Committee, but not otherwise. Under some such regulations as these, I have reason to believe, from the applications already made, a considerable stream of immigration of the most valuable kind will at once be created, and may be steadily maintained and increased.

As Mr Scott, the Engineer, who has been engaged in laying down Patent Slips in various parts of the world, has arrived and will at once proceed to examine and report on the best site, and to give an estimate of the probable cost, the Government will soon be in a position to decide how far they will be justified in undertaking the erection of a slip in this harbour.

While I recognise the responsibility you have cast upon me by the resolutions you have passed relative to the proposed Railway, I so fully appreciate the incalculable advantages such a system of internal communication would confer upon the whole Province, that you may rest assured that no efforts will be wanting on my part to carry out your views.

Though it is impossible to deny that recent events at Taranaki have materially altered the position in which we stood a few since, and may throw serious impediments in the way of the immediate execution of the great works you have sanctioned—may, in fact, for a time at least, prevent the realisation of the expectations and hopes I indulged in my opening address; still, taking into consideration that his Excellency has by giving up the Waitara and by the amnesty proclaimed for the past, narrowed the issues at stake between the Government and the Natives at Taranaki to the surrender of those implicated in the treacherous massacre of the escort, and to the possession of Tataraimaka—that the Natives in almost every part of the island have declared that Tataraimaka belonged to the Queen—that the Governor was justified in taking possession of it, and have expressed their abhorrence of the recent outrage—above all, bearing in mind that in this war we shall have right and not injustice on our side, I do not despair of seeing peace before very long established on a satisfactory and lasting basis; nor am I without hope that under ordinary circumstances the horrors of war may be averted from this Province.

Thanking you on behalf of the Province for the manner in which you have discharged your duties as its representatives, and with the most perfect confidence that whatever turn events may take—however critical the position we may be placed in—I may ever rely upon your support and co-operation, I now declare that this Council do stand prorogued.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

Provincial Council Chamber,
May 26th, 1863.

General Government Notices

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1863.

THE following Notices are reprinted from the New Zealand Gazette for general information.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Appointment of Captain H. Roberts, Lieut. B. Sheriff, and Dr. J. Fletcher.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 21st April, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments in the “Prince of Wales Company,” Wanganui Rifle Volunteers.

Henry Roberts, to be Captain. Date of Commission—21st April, 1863.
Bedford Sheriff, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission—21st April, 1863.
James Fletcher, M.D., to be Surgeon. Date of Commission—21st April, 1863.

Reader Wood,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

Resignation of Ensign John Jones.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 21st April, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

Ensign John Jones,
of the “Mataroo” Company, Wanganui Rifle Volunteers.

Reader Wood,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

G. F. Swainson Esq., appointed to ascertain assent of Natives under “Natives Reserves Act, 1856.”

Native Office,
Auckland, April 25th, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

George F. Swainson, Esq.,
to be a person to ascertain the assent of the Natives in the Province of Wellington to their Reserves being brought under the operation of the “Native Reserves Act, 1856.”

F. D. BELL.

Money Order Branch.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 7th April, 1863.

NOTICE is hereby given that Money Orders will be issued on and after the 1st June next, at any Money Order Office in New Zealand, for the transmission of money to the Colony of Queensland.

Commission will be charged on Money Orders issued at the following rates.

For any sum
Not exceeding £5 ... One Shilling
Above £5, and under £10 Two Shillings

No single Order will be issued for a greater amount than ten pounds.

Money Orders may be obtained and be made payable at the following places, viz:—

Brisbane,
Dalby, Ipswich, Gayndah, Warwick,
Maryborough, Rockhampton, Toowoomba

Full information as to forms, &c., will be supplied to the public on application at any Money Order Office.

Reader Wood,
For the Postmaster-General.