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CUSTOMS NOTICE.

THE Warehouse in the Port of Hokitika, which will be known as "LOUISSON AND Co’s BONDING WAREHOUSE," and is described below, has been approved and appointed (provisionally) under clause 11 of "The Customs Regulations Act, 1858," as a Warehouse for securing Goods under Bond without payment of duty on first entry thereof:—

The westernmost compartment of an iron building, owned and occupied by A. Louisson and Company, and recently erected by them on "business site" No. 92, and the adjoining portion of "site" No. 90, and fronting on Gibson Quay in the town of Hokitika, as shown on the Maps of the Chief Surveyor of Canterbury.

J. W. HAMILTON,
Deputy Commissioner.
Custom House, Lyttelton,
28th July, 1865.

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

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

JAMES DUPRÉ LANCE, Esq.,
has been duly elected.

EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT ON SHIP "INDIAN EMPIRE."

THE Commissioners, having visited the Ship "Indian Empire," report that the Immigrants were generally healthy, a few cases of hooping-cough forming the exception.

The decks were in a very unclean condition, partly explained by leakage through the upper deck, which admitted both salt water and drainage from the condensing apparatus.

The Immigrants were reported to have shown great reluctance to attend to the Surgeon’s directions for cleansing the compartments.

The Surgeon and Master appear to have very imperfectly understood their instructions as to their controlling powers, and considerable difficulty in enforcing discipline ensued. The Commissioners strongly recommend that the Emigration Agent in England should at the muster of passengers on board each ship before leaving state to them, in the presence of the Captain and Surgeon, the full extent of powers of control vested in the two latter.

Much of the trouble reported to the Commissioners appears to have arisen from two young men having passed themselves off to the Captain and Surgeon as free passengers, whereas they were upon the list of assisted Immigrants.

The "Graveley" distilling apparatus was on more than one occasion for several days out of order.

The Surgeon reports that several articles, "phials," &c., mentioned in the list from Apothecaries’ Hall were not put on board.

The Commissioners recommend that the usual gratuities be paid.

N.B.—It has transpired that the two young men mentioned above had been allowed separate enclosed cabins; why this distinction was allowed does not appear. One of the single women complained of in the Surgeon’s report and official log had to be removed forcibly from one of these cabins.

Wm. DONALD.
JOHN T. ROUSE.
RICHARD R. ARMSTRONG.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,

CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862;" and
In the matter of the Estate of Edward Goodacre, a debtor, not in custody; and
In the matter of the Petition of Louis Edward Nathan, Maurice Harris, and Hyam Marks, trading as "L. E. Nathan and Company," creditors of the said debtor.

The Fifth day of July 1865.

UPON reading the petition filed herein on the Sixth day of March last past the rule or order made herein on the Tenth day of March last past the rule or order made herein on the Seventeenth day of March last past the rule or order made herein on the Twenty-second day of May last past an affidavit of William Richardson filed on the Fourteenth day of June pursuant to such order and the affidavit of Arthur Robert Guinness sworn and filed this day and upon hearing Mr. Garrick of Counsel for the said petitioning creditors the said debtor though called not appearing this Court doth declare that the following persons and firms respectively have proved their debts or claims namely the said L. E. Nathan and Company by affidavit annexed to the said petition One hundred and sixty-seven Pounds One Shilling and Eightpence William Pratt by his affidavit filed the Twenty-first day of June last Forty-nine Pounds One Shilling and Twopence Berliner and Bornstein One hundred Pounds by affidavit of Louis Berliner filed on the said Twenty-first day of June last and Henry Asher Davis Forty Pounds Six Shillings and Sixpence by his affidavit filed on the said day.