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20,000 TO 30,000 ACEES. WANTED to purchase a run of the above extent, with or without stock. Apply to ME. OLLIVIEE, Christchurcli. FOE SALK ' (By private contract.) THE two horses, dog cart, and tandem harness, belonging to the Superintendent, to be sold solely on account of His Honor's approaching departure for England. For particulars, apply to J. LONGDEN. TO LET. THE House"1 now occupied by Mrs. Leggett, as a Board and Lodging House, For information, apply to MBS. LEGGETT, on the premises. TOWN SECTION, NO. 193. TO BE SOLD OR LET for a term of years, the above quarter acre section, fronting the Market Place, Lyttelton. Apply | to MR. WOEMALD, Solicitor, London street, Lyttelton, where a plan .may be seen. PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the loth and 16th years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, entituled " an act for granting a Representative Constitutiou to the Colony of New Zealand," it was enacted that no bill passed by. a Superintendent and Provincial Council, which shall be reserved for the signification of the assent of the Governor, shall have any force or authority within the province until the Superintendent shall signify either by speech or message to the Provincial Council, or by Proclamation in the Government. Gazette, that such bill has been laid before the Governor, and that the Governor has assented to the same. And whereas an Ordinance was passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entituled " The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance, Sess. VIII., No. 8," and the same was reserved by me for the assent of his Excellency the Governor ; Now therefore I, James Edward Fitz Gerald, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, proclaim and declare that the aforesaid Ordinance has been laid before His Excellency the Governor, and that His Excellency has assented to the same. Given under my hand at Christchurch, this twenty „ , seventh day of July, one / thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. IS * JAMES EDWAED FITZ GERALD", " Superintendent. By his Honor's command, RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. GOD SAVE THE QTJEEN ! PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Goue Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c, &c. WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the fifteenth j and sixteenth years of the reign of her I present Majesty, cap. 72,'entituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the"Colony of New Zealand," the several Provinces* of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago, I are thereby established ; and it is enacted that for each of the said provinces there shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council. And whereas by the said act it is further enacted that every Provincial Council shall continue for the period of four years from the day of return of the writs for choosing the same and no longer; Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of> New Zealand, by^Proclamation or otherwise, to dissolve the same whenever he shall think it expedient so to do. Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by this Proclamation dissolve the Provincial Council of the said Province |of Canterbury accordingly. Given under my hand and isssued — under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand at Government House, at Auckland, in the Colony aforesaid, this fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Governor. By his Excellency's command, E. W. STAFFORD. GOD SATE THE QUEEN. -