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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIII, 11 November 1854, Page 3

GOVERNMENT NOTICES. [From the Government Gazette (Province of Nelson), Nov. 9, 1854.] PROCLAMATION. By His Honor Edward William Stafford, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand. "TO^HEREAS, by a Proclamation in the * * Govtrnment Gazette, dated the fourth pday of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, it was appointed that the Provincial Council should meet for the despatch of business, at Nelson, on Tuesday, tne fourteenth day of November instant: And whereas- it is expedient that the said Council should be prorogued until Thursday, the 23d November instant : Now therefore I, the Superintendent of Nelson, in virtue of the powers and authority vested in me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have this day prorogued the Provincial Council until Thursday, the Twenty-third day of November instant, at twelve o'clock at nooD. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province, at Nelson, this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- four. E. W. Stafford, _ Superintendent. By his Honor's command, , Henry Adams, Provincial Solicitor. God Save the Queen! Superintendent's Office, Nelson, November 7, 1854. X.TIS Honor the Superintendent directs it -"--*• to be notified that the undermentioned portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown, within the Province of Nelson, 'jas hereinafter described, has been reserved for the purposes of a Quarantine Ground, viz. : — The island situate at the south end of Blind Bay, known as "Rabbit Island," bounded on the north by the coast line, and on the east, south, and west by the eastern and western mouths of the river Wairaea; containing about 2,6ooacres. By his Honor's command,. Alfred- Greenfield, Clerk in Superintendent's OfficeSuperintendent's Office, Nelson, November 7, 1854. XXIS Honor the Superintendent acknow- -*—*- • ledges the receipt, for transmission to England, of the undermentioned Sums, collected in aid of the Wives and Families of the British Forces engaged in the Russian War, viz. 1 — £ t. d. From the Rev. H. F. Butt, Church of England clergyman 82 14 0 From the Rev. A. M. Garin, Roman Catholic clergyman 9 10 0 Total . . £42 4 o By His Honor's command, Alfred Greenfield, Clerk in Superintendent's Office. Jjr< MOUNT of the Notes in circulation at ■*■*• the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 16th day of September, 1854?. Amount of Notes in circulation on- the 16th day o September, 1854, being the close of the pre" ceding four weeks, viz.: — £5 and upwards . . . £13,810 Under £5 19,859 £33,669< Total Amount of Coin held by the same Office on the same day, viz. :— Gold . . ... . . £13,135 Silver 534 £13,669I, Henry St. Hill, being the Manager of the said. Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the Notes in circulation, and of the Coins held by the aaid Office, as required under the Ordinance,. No. 16, Session VIII. P. p. Henry St. Hill, Manager, Henry St. Hill. Colonial Bank of Issue, Wellington, 16th Sept., 1854. The Sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds (£20,000) sterling has been invested under the warrant of hit Excellency the Governor, in the poblio funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangement made through the Lord* Commissioners of h«r Majeity'* Treasury.