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AN ABSTRACT OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE, &c.—(continued).

EXPENDITURE—continued.

R. F. PORTER,
Provincial Treasurer.

Province of Auckland,
to wit.

WHEREAS a Writ under the hand of John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, bearing date the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, hath been directed to me, Thomas Beckham, Esquire, Principal Returning Officer for the Province of Auckland, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected by and from amongst the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently and in manner and form by law prescribed, one person to serve as a Member for the Provincial Council for the Suburbs of Auckland, in the place of Daniel Pollen, Esquire, resigned.

Now, therefore, I, the said Thomas Beckham, Esquire, Principal Returning Officer for the Province of Auckland, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice that a Public Meeting of the Electors of the Suburbs of Auckland will be holden at the Supreme Court House, Queen-street, Auckland, on Tuesday the third day of February next, at noon, for the purpose of nominating one person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the Suburbs of Auckland; and, in the event of a Poll being demanded for the candidates or either of them, such Polling shall take place on the following day, the fourth day of February next, at such Supreme Court House aforesaid, the voting to commence at any time after nine o’clock of the said day and to close at four o’clock of the afternoon of the same day.

THOS. BECKHAM,
Principal Returning Officer.
Police Office, City of Auckland,
20th January, 1857.

NOTICE.

Waste Lands Office, Auckland,
19th January, 1857.

NOTICE is hereby given that in future the names of those persons only in whose favour Receipts are issued for money received in payment for Land, will be inserted in the Crown Grants prepared in this Office.

C. P. O’RAFFERTY,
Commissioner of Waste Lands.

NOTICE.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

WILLIAM WRIGHT
WILLIAM SMELLIE GRAHAME.

Witnesses,

BARTON IRELAND,
GEORGE DICK.

Auckland, December 31st, 1856.

ALL interest the undersigned have in the business hitherto carried on in Sydney in the name of William Wright, and in Auckland in the name of William S. Grahame, has this day been transferred to

John Watson Bain,
Walter Grahame,
George Patrick Pierce, and
John Roberton,

who will in future carry it on as hitherto under the firm of BAIN, GRAHAME & Co. in Auckland, and JOHN ROBERTON & Co. in Sydney.

WILLIAM WRIGHT,
WILLIAM SMELLIE GRAHAME.

Auckland, 31st December, 1856.

WITH reference to the above, we beg to intimate that we have this day entered into partnership with Mr. Walter Grahame, of Auckland, and Mr. John Roberton, of Sydney, and that the business hitherto carried on by us will, in conjunction with that formerly carried on by Mr. William Wright, in Sydney, and Mr. W. S. Grahame, in Auckland, be continued at the premises in Fort-street, under the firm of BAIN, GRAHAME & Co., and in connexion with that of J. HN ROBERTON & Co., Sydney.

BAIN, PIERCE, & Co.

Auckland, 1st January, 1857.

PRINTED BY W. C. WILSON FOR THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT.