IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
WESTLAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors' and Creditors' Act, 1862;" and

In the matter of the Debtors' and Creditors' Act Amendment Act, 1865;" and

In the matter of the Estate of James Mullins, of Hokitika, in the Province of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, a debtor; and

In the matter of the Petition of the said debtor.

IN CHAMBERS:

This Fourth day of December, 1865.

Upon the application of Mr. Slater of Counsel for the said petitioner James Mullins after reading the said petition, purporting to be signed by the said petitioner such debtor as aforesaid and to be concurred in by John Barrett a creditor to the extent of not less than fifty pounds in the whole and also certain schedules and also an affidavit to the said petition annexed and therewith filed on the First day of December instant pursuant to the said Acts I being satisfied in the truth of the matters contained in the said petition do hereby grant an ad interim order of sequestration of the estate and effects of the said James Mullins and do direct that the estate and effects of the said James Mullins shall be taken and held by Henry Fowle Seager of Christchurch printer as Receiver under the said Acts hereby appointed by the Court subject to such further order as may be made under or in pursuance of the provisions of the said Acts And I do hereby appoint Wednesday, the 31st day of January instant at eleven o'clock in the forenoon for the hearing of such petition and the proof of debts and claims of creditors at the Court House Hokitika aforesaid And I do also further order and grant an ad interim order of protection to protect the person and estate of the said James Mullins from arrest execution or legal process until further orders of this Court And I do declare this order to be a vesting order pursuant to Section 8 of the said "Debtors and Creditors' Act Amendment Act, 1865."

H. B. GRESSON,
Judge.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
WESTLAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors' and Creditors' Act, 1862;" and

In the matter of "The Debtors' and Creditors' Act Amendment Act, 1865;" and

In the matter of the Petition of Daniel McKinty, of Hokitika, in the Province of Canterbury, a Prisoner for debt, in Her Majesty's Gaol at Hokitika.

TAKE NOTICE, that I have presented and filed my Petition, for my discharge from custody, and for relief, according to the provisions of "The Debtor's and Creditors' Act, 1862;" and that the said Petition has been accepted by his Honor the Judge, who has appointed the Thirty-first Day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Courthouse, Hokitika, for the hearing of the said petition, at which time and place all parties concerned are to attend.

Dated the Ninth Day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

TRAVERS & SLATER,
Christchurch,
Agents for
H. M. SOUTH,
Hokitika,
Solicitors for the said Petitioner.

CHRISTCHURCH:

Printed, under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the 'Press' Office, Cashel-street, by James Edward Fitzgerald, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.