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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 621, 28 January 1854, Page 2

GOVERNMENT NOTICES. [From the New Zealand Government Gazette, (Province of Nelson), Jan. 27, 1854.] Solicitor's Office, Nelson, 23rd January, 1853. TUTIS Honor the Sup?rintendent directs it -*"*" to be notified, that he has been authorised to remit sentences of Impruonment for short periods, as also Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures, not exceeding Twenty Pounds in amount, which may accrue or become payable to the Crown, whenever any circumstances may appear to his Honor to warrant any such remission. By his Honor'a command, Henry Adams, Solicitor of the Province. Superintendent's Office, Nelson, 23rd January, 1854. TTIS Honor the Superintendent has much **--■• gratification in directing that the following correspondence be published for general information. By his Honor's command, Altred Greenfield, Clerk in Superintendent's Office. To his Honor the Superintendent. OIR— We have the honour to enclose to you a letter addressed to Major Richmond by a considerable number of the inhabitants of this Province, with his answer, and we would request, if your Honor sees no objection to it, that they may be published in the Government Gazette of the Province. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient humble Servants, D. Monro Alfred Fell. To Major Richmond. OIR — We, the undersigned inhabitants of **■* the settlement of Nelson, are desirous of addressing you upon the occasion of your retiring from the position of Superintendent of the Province. You have presided over the public affairs of this Settlement for a period of nearly six ' years, and during that time a great and sub- { stantial progress has been made. When { you arrived in Nelson, the land in cultivation amounted to 2,800 acres, it is now 7,200. The of horned stock was 1,500, it is now 7,500. The number of sheep in the Settlement was 10,000, according to the census of last year it is 114,000. Before the same period we were almost without roads: under your zealous and vigilent direction they have been made, repaired, and brought into such excellent condition, that it may fairly be doubted whether any Colony of the same age and numbers can boast of equal facilities of internal communication. In the general comfort of all classes there has been a corresponding progress. Industry has invariably lieen attended with success ; and the number of farms owned now by men who only a few years since were labourers for wages, the amount of stock possessed by them, and the comforts with, which they are surrounded, are unmistakeable evidence of a society which has advanced to a high dtgree of ease and contentment, and is still advancing. We should ba wanting to ourselves, we should be unjust to you, if, while proclaiming the prosperous state of the Settlement, we were to allow you to retire without making a public acknowledgement of the value of the services you have rendered •us : and we beg therefore to assure you that the constant and solicitous interest with which you have always sought to promote our prosperity, the judgment with which you have applied the resources at your command towards works of public utility, and the just and impartial manner in which you have extended your assistance to every district, the high moral example which you have .shewn to the community, the uniform kindness of your conduct and manner, your liberality and unostentatious hospitality, have secured for you the lasting approbation and regard of the inhabitants of this Settlement with hardly an exception. We now bid you farewell as Superintendent. We beg you to belisve that in the new sphere of public service upon which you are employed, you carry with you our esteem and kind recollections, and with every wish for your future health and happiness, and that of your family, we subscribe ourselves, Your faithful and obedient Servants, E W Stafford, Supt. D Sclandere, J. P. D Monro, M. G. A. J W Barnicoat, M.P.C Francis Jollie, J. P. Charles Bonnington Edward Fearon Nathaniel Edwards H Seymour, M. G. A. , J P Black Alfred Fell John Percy W T Locke Travers A R K..yvett