NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XXI. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1874. No. 13.

Speech of His Honor the Superintendent on Proroguing the Twenty-Seventh Session of the Provincial Council.

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council—

I have already given assent to a Bill intituled

“An Act to Appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Wellington for a term commencing from the first day of April, 1874, and ending the thirty-first day of May, 1874.”

I now, on behalf of His Excellency the Governor, assent to the following Bills, viz.:—

“An Act to confirm the Sale of a piece of Land called the Waihenga Ferry Reserve, in the District of Wairarapa.”

“An Act to Regulate the Management of Houses held by Persons Licensed to Sell Alcoholic Liquors.”

“An Act to Empower the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington to Stop up certain Roads and Dispose of the Lands over which such Roads passed.”

“An Act to Appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Wellington for the period commencing the first day of April, 1874, and ending the thirty-first day of March, 1875.”

“An Act to Further Amend the Wellington Education Act, 1871.”

“An Act to Authorise the Superintendent to lease to a Company for the Construction of Baths, a piece of Land in the Neighborhood of Pipitea, in the City of Wellington.”

“An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Law of Cattle Trespass and Impounding, in the Province of Wellington.”

“An Act to further amend the Diseased Sheep Act, 1872.”

“An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Law relating to the Construction and Maintenance of Highways in the Province of Wellington.”

You have presented me with an address in reply to the speech with which I opened this session, expressive of your approval of the policy of the Provincial Government. It must be satisfactory to any Government to receive such an assurance from a representative chamber; and it is especially encouraging to the present Government, under the difficulties with which it has had, and has still, to contend.

The Estimates of Expenditure which were submitted to you, have been increased, at your suggestion, by several items, amounting in the aggregate to £3759 15s. Whilst I have readily acquiesced in the propriety of the new items of expenditure proposed by you, yet I call your attention to the fact that no provision has been made for proportionately increasing the income to meet this expenditure.

At the opening of the session I informed you that I had made an outside estimate of the revenue for the year, especially the territorial; whilst, therefore, I hope there may be found a sufficient margin to cover the proposed expenditure, it becomes my duty to call your attention to the circumstance.

I regret, moreover, to have to state that owing to difficulties respecting the early completion of certain land purchases, which have been only brought to my notice quite recently, I am not so sanguine as to the estimated amount of territorial revenue receivable within the year.

You will clearly understand that if revenue does not come in adequately to meet the expenditure on the various public works proposed, there will be no alternative, under existing circumstances, than to leave them undone.

I now declare this Council to be prorogued.

William Fitzherbert,
Superintendent.