MESSAGE No. 6.

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1854 Session I-II

MESSAGE No. 6.

His Excellency the Officer administering the Government transmits to the House of Representatives a Memorial from certain residents at Nelson, praying that provision may be made for the erection of a suitable Post Office there. Should the prayer of the Petition be entertained by the House, it will be necessary that a sum of Two hundred pounds, £200, be placed at the disposal of Government in order to provide the accommodation requested. R. H. WYNYARD. Government House, Auckland, 4th September, 1854.

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Memorial from sundry Members of the Provincial Council, Justices of the Peace, Clergymen, Merchants, and others, resident in the Town of Nelson, soliciting that a sum of money may be voted by the General Assembly of New Zealand, for the erection of a new Post Office there.

The Undersigned Residents in Nelson, experience great inconvenience and annoyance in not readily receiving their letters, &c , from the Post Office, from a delay, consequent on the preat want of space in the Building (one small room) at present used as the Post Office, their fceir." no accommodation for sorting the letters, &c. They therefore beg this may be made known to the House of Representatives, at Auckland, with a hope, that a sum for the erection of a proper Post Office at Nelson, New Zealand, may be voted during the Session.

SIGNATURES. PROFESSION, &c. M. Caultry, J.P., Flock-owner. J. I, Galloway, Settler. A. Young, Merchant. Edward Fearon, Flock-owner-A. G. Jenkins, Ditto. Natk. Cavard, Surveyor. Morrison & Sclanders, Merchants. R. Ray, Clerk. Robert Ross, Baker. W. G. Galloway, Settler. H. Hargraves, Butcher. M. McDonald, Union Bank of Australia. John M. Hutcheson, Ditto. Isaac Mason Hill, Merchant. Geo. Ridings, Ditto. Wm. Thos. Locke Travers, M.H.R., Solicitor John Watts, Engineer. George T. Bush, M.P.C., Surgeon W. Hough, M P.C, Merchant. D. Moore, Ditto. Henry Adams, M.P.C., Solicitor. J. Wilson, Sheep Farmer. Thomas W. Nicholson, Presbyterian Minister. Samuel Ironside, Wesleyan Minister. C. Elliott, M.P.C., Editor Examiner. Herbert Meyer, Sheep Farmer. G. W. Taylor, Hotel Keeper. C. W. Withers, J.P., Flock-owner. F. H. Blundell, J.P., Ditto. G.W.Schroder, Merchant. Curtis Brothers, Merchants. W. Geo. Morse, J.P., Flock-owner. R. P. Outridge, Auctioneer. E. Baiguit, M.P.C., Wood Merchant. Jos. F. Wilson, Coroner. Robert J. Creasy, Farmer. John McArtney, Tin-smith. Thos. Lloyd Tudor, Clerk. Charles Bonnington, TeacherofMusic. M. R. Nuttrass, Clerk. Donald Sinclair, J.P., Solicitor, & Speaker Provincial Council. John Sharp, Clerk to Resident Magistrate. John Waring Saxton, J. P and M.P.C. Wm. Stanton, Merchant. James S. Cross, Harbour Master.

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SIGNATURES. PROFESSION, &c. Geo. Williams, Surgeon. John Hume, Settler. Charles Lucas, Merchant. H. Redwood, jun , Flock-owner. Wm. Wells, Ditto. Joseph Winterbearo, Inn-keeper. William Dartnale, Store-keeper. John Caldwell, Settler. M. Huldon, Clerk. H. C. N. Clarke, Saddler. F. Gibbin, Store-keeper. James Rowbotham, Settler. William Snow, Store-keeper. George Aiken, Ditto. Fred. Wickerman, J.P., Surgeon. Thomas Renwick, M.D. and M.P.C. Thomas Simpson, Merchant. James W. Macdonald. Clerk to Superintendent. Nelson, 8th August, 1854.