Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 27th October, 1863.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

MR. JOHN MELTON,

to be Pound-keeper, at Timaru.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 27th October, 1863.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

HON. H. J. TANCRED, ESQ.,

to be the Chairman of the Board of Education in the Province of Canterbury.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 27th October, 1863.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, ESQ.,

to be a member of the Executive Council.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

DEBTORS’ AND CREDITORS’ ACT, 1862.

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the undermentioned person has been sequestrated, by order of Mr. Justice Gresson, on a petition filed in the Supreme Court, in pursuance of the above named Act, and Monday, the 16th day of November next, appointed, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, for the hearing of the matter of such petition, at the Court House, Christchurch.

WILLIAM SLOANE, late of the Harewood Road, near Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, in New Zealand, Farmer.

DUNCAN & WILLIAMS,
Solicitors.

NOTICE.

THE partnership heretofore existing between William Sefton Moorhouse and Richard May Morten, as Sheep-farmers, in runs 283, 284, 309, 310, and known as the Lochinvar Station, Upper Waimakariri, Canterbury, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent, W. S. Moorhouse having disposed of his interest in the same to J. Cracroft Wilson, C.B.

The liabilities of the late firm will be discharged by Messrs. Wilson and Morten.

Dated at Christchurch, the twenty-sixth day of October, 1863.

W. S. MOORHOUSE.
R. M. MORTEN.

Witness to the signatures of W. S. Moorhouse and R. M. Morten,

S. B. STIFFE,
Accountant, Christchurch.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Police Commissioner’s Office,
Christchurch, October 28th, 1863.

THE frequent desertion of Seamen is becoming a matter of grave importance and likely to impede the general welfare of the Province. The shipping interest is suffering severely in consequence of some thoughtless employers, through a mistaken sympathy, or with the view of securing cheap labour, harbouring those who desert from their ships.

The most stringent measures will be adopted by the Police and the Special Constables throughout the Province to apprehend Deserters, and to prosecute, to the fullest extent, all persons harbouring or giving them employment; as it is their duty, when hiring labour, to ascertain that they are not at the same time infringing one of the most important laws framed for the support and well being of the leading interests of the community at large.

R. C. SHEARMAN,
Commissioner of Police.

Provincial Treasury,
Christchurch, October 7, 1863.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the “Auctioneers’ Ordinance, Session III, No. 3,” I hereby give notice that the undermentioned person has taken out an Auctioneer’s License for the term ending 30th June, 1864, viz.,

JAMES DRUMMOND MACPHERSON,

of Christchurch, Merchant.

CHAS. C. BOWEN,
Provincial Treasurer.

Provincial Treasury,
Christchurch, October 25, 1863.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the “Auctioneers’ Ordinance, Session III, No. 3,” I hereby give notice that the undermentioned person has taken out an Auctioneer’s License for the term ending 30th June, 1864, viz.,

SAMUEL BENJAMIN,

of Christchurch, Appraiser and Valuator.

CHAS. C. BOWEN,
Provincial Treasurer.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, October 27, 1863.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to act as Commissioners, to re-consider the lines of Railway projected to the South and North, and the bridges over the large rivers in connection therewith :—

EDWARD DOBSON, ESQ.,
THOMAS CASS, ESQ.,
JAMES WILDE, ESQ.,
EDWARD RICHARDSON, ESQ.,
J. F. ROBERTS, ESQ.,
EDWARD JOHN WRIGHT, ESQ.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.