Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 28, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has, in pursuance of Clause 14 of the "Roads Ordinance, 1864," appointed

E. C. J. STEVENS, Esq.,
to be the Auditor to audit the accounts of the Avon Road Board.

JOHN HALL,
Secretary for Public Works.

Moorehouse & Macfarlane,
Solicitors for the above Petitioners.
Cathedral Square,
Christchurch.

In THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that the following Petitions will be heard in the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, the Fifteenth day of February next, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon:—

In the matter of Elijah Gadd, of the Heathcote District, in the Province of Canterbury, Stonemason, a debtor, not in custody.

In the matter of Donald Coutts, heretofore of Kaiapoi, in the Province of Canterbury, Settler, then of Southland, in the Province of Southland, in Lodgings, and now of Kaiapoi aforesaid, Settler, a debtor, not in custody.

In the matter of William Lord, of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, Greengrocer, a debtor, not in custody.

In the matter of Alfred George Rich, of Leithfield, in the Province of Canterbury, Civil Engineer, a debtor, not in custody.

In the matter of Salomon Michael Salomon, of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, Clothier, a debtor, not in custody.

In the matter of William Joynt and Nathaniel Neil Joynt, of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, Auctioneers, trading under the style or firm of "W. and N. Joynt," debtors, not in custody.

In the matter of Thomas Brown Craig, of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, Auctioneer, a debtor, not in custody.

In the matter of David Salomon, of Timaru, in the Province of Canterbury, Draper and Clothier, a debtor, not in custody.

In the matter of George Arthur Smith, of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, Merchant, in partnership with J. T. Pain, of Christchurch aforesaid, trading under the style of "Pain, Smith, and Company," a debtor.

In the matter of Augustus Edward White, formerly of Lyttelton, in the Province of Canterbury, Merchant, then of Akaroa, in the Province aforesaid, Merchant, then of Christchurch, in the Province aforesaid, Merchant, a debtor.

Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, out of business, and now of Christchurch aforesaid, out of business, a debtor, not in custody,

In the matter of Thomas Wood, of Puran, in Port Victoria, in the Province of Canterbury, Accommodation House Keeper, a debtor, not in custody.

In THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that the estates of the under-mentioned persons were sequestrated by the several orders of His Honor Mr. Justice Gresson, made respectively on the Twenty-second day of November, 1864, the Twenty-third day of December, 1864, and the Tenth day of January, 1865, on petitions filed in this Honorable Court in pursuance of the above-named Act, and Wednesday, the Fifteenth day of February next, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, has been appointed for the hearing of the matters of such petitions at the Court House, Christchurch:—

Charles Dudding, of the Harewood Road, in the aforesaid district, Labourer, a debtor, not in custody.

James Thomas Pain, of Christchurch, in the aforesaid District, Merchant, a debtor, not in custody.

James Henry Jackman, of Christchurch, in the said District, Storekeeper, a debtor, not in custody.

Thomas McKenzie, of the Lower Lincoln Road, in the said District, Farmer, a debtor, not in custody.

Dated this 24th day of January, 1865.

THOMAS INGHAM JOYNT,
Solicitor for the said Debtors.
Lichfield Street,
Christchurch.

In THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of an order of this Honorable Court, made on the Fifteenth day of November last, the further hearing of the under-mentioned petition matters was adjourned to Wednesday, the Fifteenth day of February next, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court House, Christchurch:—

Thomas McKenzie, of the Lower Lincoln Road, in the said District, Farmer, a debtor, not in custody.

Dated this 24th day of January, 1865.

THOMAS INGHAM JOYNT,
Solicitor for the said Petitioner.
Lichfield Street,
Christchurch.