Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 24, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that a Writ calling for the Election of a person to serve in the Provincial Council, as Member for the Avon District, has been returned to him with the endorsement that

William Patten Cowlishaw, Esq.,
has been duly elected.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 7, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following reserves temporarily under the 19th clause of the Waste Land Regulations, for Provincial Government purposes, viz.—

No. 378, in red.—Three hundred and twenty acres, more or less, situate on the north bank of the Waimakariri, having frontage of about one mile seventy-two chains to the said river, and extending back northerly a distance on the average of 40 chains exclusive of the river-bed of the Bealey.

No. 379, in red.—Three hundred and twenty acres, more or less, situate on run 333, opposite to the ford, having frontage of 80 chains to the southern bank of the Waimakariri, and extending back southerly a distance on the average of 40 chains.

JOHN HALL,
Secretary for Public Works.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 6, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserves temporarily under clause 43 of the Waste Land Regulations, for the purpose of payment for the construction of a drain, viz.—

125 acres, in the Oxford district, being bounded on the south and south-west by a drain and road reserve, on the north-east by another drain and road reserve, and on the north-west by a line at right angles to the last-mentioned reserve; to include the above quantity.

75 acres, in the Oxford district, being bounded on the south-west by the drain and road reserve, on the north-east by another drain and road reserve, and on the north-west by a line at right angles to the last-mentioned reserve; to include the above quantity.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

CUSTOMS’ NOTICE.
Custom House, Lyttelton,
February 16, 1865.

THE Warehouse in the Port of Lyttelton, described hereunder, which will be known as DALGETY’S BONDING WAREHOUSE, has been approved and appointed under clause 2 of the “Customs’ Regulation Act, 1858,” as a Warehouse for securing Goods under Bond, without payment of duty on first entry thereof:—

A corrugated iron building (containing ground-floor and upper storey), owned and occupied by Messrs. Edmund Simmons Dalgety and Company, and situated on Norwich quay, in the town of Lyttelton, at the north-western corner of section numbered 2 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of Canterbury.

J. W. HAMILTON,
Deputy Commissioner.

NOTICE.

Christchurch, March 1, 1865.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, under the style or firm of S. and S. Hooper, tobacconists, &c., has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. The business in future will be carried on by Stephen Hooper, on his own account, who will discharge all liabilities of the late firm, and receive all moneys due to it.

STEPHEN HOOPER.

Witness:
William Wilkinson.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
MIDDLE DISTRICT.

In the matter of “The Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862;” and
In the matter of the Petition of George Masterton Clarke, a prisoner for debt.

On Wednesday, November 9, 1864.

UPON hearing the petition herein, and the affidavit of George Masterton Clarke, sworn and filed on the Fifteenth day of the same month, read, and what was read by Mr. Allen, of Counsel for the Petitioner, it is ordered that the said petition shall be set down for hearing at the Supreme Court House, Wellington, on the Sixteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, at ten o’clock in the forenoon; and that the said George Masterton Clarke do attend at the time and place aforesaid, to be examined touching his estate and effects; and in the meantime, and until such hearing, or until the further order of the said Court to the contrary, it is ordered that the estate and effects of the said George Masterton Clarke be, and the same are hereby sequestered.