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PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

Christchurch, August 5, 1861.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between the undersigned, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.
As witness our hands,

A. R. MACDONELL,
of Glengarry.
JAMES DODDS.
Witness to the signatures of
Alexander Ronaldson Macdonell and James Dodds,
WM. THOS. LOCKE TRAVERS,
Solicitor, Christchurch.

A PROCLAMATION

For the Dissolution of the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, Cap. 72, entitled "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, 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, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,

I. E. FEATHERSTON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY GODFREY GOULAND, Esq.,
to be Principal Returning Officer for the Province of Canterbury.

I. E. FEATHERSTON.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY GODFREY GOULAND, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the Election of Members of the Provincial Council of Canterbury for the following districts:—

Town of Christchurch
Town of Lyttelton
Avon
Rakaia
Ashley
Port Victoria
Heathcote
Kaiapoi.

This appointment took effect on the 6th August, 1860.
I. E. FEATHERSTON.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 29th July, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN WILLIAM SMITH COWARD, Esq.,
to be Coroner for the District of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury.

WILLIAM FOX.

WARRANT APPOINTING CORONER'S DISTRICT.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Coroners' Act, 1858," the Governor is empowered in the manner therein mentioned to appoint fit persons to be Coroner for the several Districts of the Colony of New Zealand, and from time to time to define the districts within which such Coroners shall respectively have jurisdiction, and every such definition to revoke or amend, and the limits of such districts to alter as occasion may require, Now therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the said power and authority, do hereby define the district of

CHRISTCHURCH

in the Province of Canterbury, to be all the territory comprised within the limits following, that is to say:—On the North by the river Waimakariri (South bank) from the sea to where it enters the first range of hills; thence by a straight line running due South till it meets the Rakaia river; thence in an easterly direction, following the line dividing the Heathcote and Ellesmere electoral districts to the mouth of the river Heathcote, thence on the East by the line of the sea-coast to the mouth of the Waimakariri aforesaid.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,

WILLIAM FOX.