RURAL LAND.

ASHLEY DISTRICT.

CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT.

LINCOLN DISTRICT.

MANDEVILLE DISTRICT.

ELLESMERE DISTRICT.

LYTTELTON DISTRICT.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 12th October, 1863.

His Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Return:—

THOS. W. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Abstract of the Quantity of Land sold and granted in the different districts for the month ending the 30th September, 1863:—

DEBTORS’ AND CREDITORS’ ACT, 1862.

NOTICE is hereby given that the estates of the under-mentioned persons have been sequestrated by order of Mr. Justice Gresson, on petitions filed in the Supreme Court, in pursuance of the above-named Act, and Monday, the 16th day of November next, appointed, at Eleven in the Forenoon, for the hearing of the matters of such petitions, at the Court-house, Christchurch:—

• CHARLES JOHN MARTIN, lately in co-partnership with George Lumley, trading under the name or style of “Lumley and Martin,” as tobacconists and general dealers, at the Oriental, in High-street, Christchurch.

• GEORGE LUMLEY, lately in co-partnership with Charles John Martin, trading under the name or style of “Lumley and Martin,” as tobacconists and general dealers, at the Oriental, in High-street, Christchurch.

• HENRY JONES, of Cashel-street, Christchurch, builder, formerly of Kaiapoi, storekeeper.

• ANDREW COOPER RIGGS, of East Town Belt, previously of Chester-street East, and formerly of Armagh-street, all in Christchurch, carpenter and builder.

• JOHN JAMES BENNETTS, of Fendall Town, near Christchurch, out of business, previously of Sumner Road, Christchurch, storekeeper, and formerly of Invercargill, Southland, farmer.

• ALFRED FISHER, formerly of Heathcote Valley, Canterbury, storekeeper, then of St. Asaph-street, and late of Kilmore-street, Christchurch, brewers’ collecting clerk.

• WILLIAM TUCKERMAN STEPHENS, of Avon Mill, near Papanui Road, Christchurch, Miller, previously in co-partnership with Joseph Fantham, trading under the name or style of “Stephens and Fantham,” at Avon Mill aforesaid, before then in co-partnership with George Cameron, trading under the name or style of “Stephens and Cameron,” and formerly in co-partnership with Richard Woodford, trading under the name or style of “Woodford and Stephens.”

• HENRY JAGGAR, of the School House, Lincoln Road, Canterbury, cooper, but out of business, previously of Kaiapoi, Canterbury, maltster and brewer, before then in co-partnership with Francis Franks, trading as maltsters and brewers, under the name or style of “Jaggar and Franks,” and formerly of Papanui Road, Christchurch aforesaid, maltster and brewer.

• SEPTIMUS LANCELOT WORSLEY, now of Christchurch, Canterbury, gentleman, formerly of Wellington, merchant and shipping agent, and during a portion of the time in co-partnership with William Wilson, trading at Wellington, under the name or style of “Worsley, Wilson, and Company,” as merchants and shipping agents.

• WILLIAM MERRITT, of Colombo-street south, formerly of Manchester-street, both in Christchurch, Canterbury, Carter.

CUSTOMS NOTICE.

Bonding Warehouse Licensed at Lyttelton.

THE Warehouse in the Port of Lyttelton, known as J. Drummond Macpherson’s, and described below, has been approved and appointed under clause XI. of the “Customs Regulation Act, 1858,” as a warehouse for the securing of goods under bond without payment of duty, on the first entry thereof.

A store, built partly of iron, partly of wood, and two compartments opening into and adjoining the western end of the same, forming a portion of the business premises now occupied by J. Drummond Macpherson, and situated immediately on the southern side of Norwich Quay east.

J. W. HAMILTON,
Deputy Commissioner of Customs.

Custom House, Lyttelton, this 30th day of September, 1863.