tract, the powers and authority vested in me
as Superintendent of the Province of Auck-
land, by the fourth, fifth, and ninth Sections
of "The Thistle Act, 1858."

Given under my hand at Auckland,
this nineteenth day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By John Williamson, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Auckland.

In pursuance of the power in me vested
by the fourth section of "The High-
ways Act, 1867," I do hereby bring the said
Act into operation in the District of Mata-
kana, and appoint the first meeting of the
Electors to take place at the School house,
Matakana, on Friday, the twenty-seventh
day of December inst., at noon.

Given under my hand, at Auck-
land, this seventeenth day of
December, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

ERECTION OF NEW TOLL BAR.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of
Clause 5 of "The Turnpike Act,
1866," of the erection of a new Toll Bar, at
the junction of Owen’s Road and the New
Road on the east side of Mount Eden.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 19th December, 1867.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 17th December, 1867.

I HEREBY notify for general information,
that a Writ, issued by me on the
sixth day of December, 1867, for the
election of a Member of the Provincial
Council for the Electoral District of Auck-
land City East, has been returned with an
endorsement thereon as follows:—

"I, Henry Colin Balneavis, the Returning
Officer for the Electoral District of Auck-
land City East, do hereby declare that in
pursuance of the Writ to me directed,
"bearing date the sixth day of December,
"1867, the undermentioned Candidate is
duly elected a Member of the Provincial
"Council for the said District.

Dated this seventeenth day of Decem-
ber, 1867.

HENRY COLIN BALNEAVIS,
Returning Officer."

| Christian
| name and
| surname of
| Candidate. | Place of
| Abode. | Nature of
| Qualification. | Names of
| Proposers. |
|---------------|----------------|---------------------|---------------------|
| William
| Weaver. | Mount
| Eden. | Freehold. | Robert
| James
| Creighton.
| | | | George
| Webster. |

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 14th December, 1867.

THE following Notifications from the
New Zealand Gazette, are republished
for general information.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 19th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

Alan Baillie, Esq.,
of Shortland, in the Province of Auckland,
to be a Coroner for the Colony of New
Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint the Post Office at

Hamilton,
in the Province of Auckland, from the
15th December, 1867, to be a Money Order
Office and Post Office Savings Bank.

T. M. HAULTAIN,
(for the Postmaster-General.)

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW

ZEALAND.

NORTHERN DIVISION.

IN BANKRUPTCY.

In the matter of the Debtors and
Creditors Act, 1862, and the
Debtors and Creditors Act Amend-
ment Act, 1865; and the Debtors
and Creditors Acts Amendment
Act, 1866; and in the matters of
the Petitions of Mark Somerfield,
of Auckland, Merchant; Clement
Crisp, of the Whau, near Auck-
land, Storekeeper; Matthew
Henry Roy, of Onenunga near
Auckland, Timber Merchant;
John Thomas Bedgood and