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grant to the members of the Free Church of Scotland, containing 3 acres, and the Government Domain. Ten acres were also excepted to be granted to the Corporation of Christ's College out of the next mentioned reserve. There were also reserved, by authority of Ordinance of Session VIII., No. 11, 3 acres for a Roman Catholic chapel and schools, and for the residences of clergymen and schoolmasters attached thereto. Under authority of Ordinance, Session IX., No. 3, the Superintendent had power to grant to the Bishop of Christchurch, upon trust, for sites of churches, schools, and parsonages, two blocks of 3 acres each, one in North and one in South Christchurch, upon certain conditions; also, to grant to the Superintendent for the time being of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in the Province of Canterbury, 3 acres. Reserve No. 25, for Government Domain, containing 64 acres 2 roods, is, with exception of the 10 acres above mentioned, occupied as a public park and gardens. Out of Hagley Park (Reserve No. 24) 5 acres 1 rood 38 perches has been retained as a site for a public hospital and grounds. This is the site now occupied by the Hospital and grounds attached thereto. Reserve No. 39, for a store, at Sumner, containing 3 roods 5 perches, ,has been sold to George Day for £410. Reserve No. 41, for a ferry-house, containing 1 rood, is still a reserve and unoccupied, the bridge in the neighbourhood having rendered the ferry needless. There is no ferry-house there. Reserve No. 44, for a wharf at Christchurch, has been sold to Joseph Longden for £200, in February, 1856. Reserve No. 47, for Heathcote Ferry East, containing 1 rood, is still vested in the Superintendent, and is unoccupied. Reserve No. 47a has been sold to Joseph Brittan for £200, in February, 1856. Reserves No. 48 and 49, land for ferry over the Courtenay, containing together 2 roods, are still vested in the Superintendent. It is unused, being out of the line of road. Reserve No. 57, land for canal between the Heathcote and Halswell, 29 acres 1 rood and 24 perches. Reserve No. 58, land for canal between the Avon and Purarekanui, 45 acres, and Reserve No. 59, land for ditto, between ditto and the sea, 28 acres 3 roods, are still vested in the Superintendent for the purposes indicated. Reserve No. 62, land to be selected within one year from the date, out of No. 62 in map annexed, 200 acres, "as a landing-place for sheep," is used as a quarantine ground for sheep (and cattle) sea-borne. The total amount raised by sales of land out of Reserve No. 24, Town Reserves, was £27,695 14s. Saturday, Bth January. —Section 92, in Christchurch District, near Riverton, comprised in grant recorded 6a, p. 77, comprising 200 acres of land, was sold, in 1861, to various persons, in lots, for prices amounting in all to £1,007, under the Lunatic Asylum and Gravel Pit Reserves Sales Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Canterbury, Session XIII., No. 2. There had been previously purchased by the Superintendent a piece of land on the Lincoln Road, about three miles from Christchurch, containing from 48 acres 3 roods and 5 perches (whereon the existing Lunatic Asylum is built), at a cost of £1,650. The sections, each of 5 acres, comprised in grants of 24th July, 1865, in the Christchurch District, recorded C. 16, p. 247 ; in Mandeville District, recorded C. 16, pp. 248 and 249; in Christchurch District, recorded C. 16, p. 250, C. 17, pp. 1 and 2 ; and in Oxford District, recorded C. 17, p. 3, were, pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, —" The Canterbury Public Reserves Act, 1867," —conveyed to "the Church Property Trustees," a Corporation constituted by the Church Property Trust Ordinance, Session 11., No. 3, validated by " The Provincial Corporations Act, 1865." The Reserve 138, in red, in Akaroa Town, comprising 1 rood 30 perches (grant recorded C. 17, p. 5), is still vested in the Superintendent. The Reserve 192, in red, at the River Rangitata, comprising 10 acres (recorded C. 17, p. 15), is still vested in the Superintendent, and held for the purposes of a cemetery. The same statement applies to Reserves 162, in red (C. 18, page 166), and 163 in red (C. 18, p. 167), in the Oxford and Ashley Districts respectively. The Reserves 200, in red, in the Lincoln District, 5 acres, and 201 in the Ashley District, 5 acres, respectively recorded C. 18, pp. 181 and 182, have been conveyed, under the authority above referred to, to the Church Property Trustees. The Reserve 167, in red, comprising 5 acres, in Lyttelton District, recorded C. 20, p. 56, has been conveyed, under the same authority, to the Church Property Trustees. The Reserve 190, in red, comprising 5 acres in Lyttelton District, recorded C. 20, p. 57, is still vested in the Superintendent. By Ordinance, Session XXVIIL, No. 10—the Educational Reserves Leasing Ordinance —power is given to the Superintendent to demise and lease for a term or terms not exceeding twenty-one years the sections reserved in trust as an endowment for a classical school, comprised in the grants of 3rd September 1867, 26th October; 1867, 17th February 1868, and 27th February 1868. Mr. Alexander Lean has the management of them. The Reserve 166, in red, comprising 6 acres, in Lyttelton District, recorded C. 29, p. 203, has been conveyed to the Church Property Trustees. So likewise have the Reserves 97, in red (C. 29, p. 204), in Akaroa Town, and 172 in red (C. 29, p. 207), in Banks' Peninsula. Reserves 857, in red, C. 30, p. 130, in Arowhenua Town, and C. 31, p. 91, is still vested in the Superintendent. The Reserve 124, at Rangiora, is used as a cemetery, is fenced in, and has been conveyed to the Church Property Trustees. Tuesday, 11th January.—Reserve 31, for a Custom House, in Lyttelton, adjoins Reserve 32. The Custom House is built on part of 32. Reserve 31 is unoccupied, and forms the approach to the Lyttelton Station. The principal Custom House in the Province is now in Christchurch.