Tuesday, the tenth day of October, 1865.

UPON the application of Mr. Garrick of Counsel for the said debtor and upon reading the order made on the 22nd day of September last and the affidavit of Arthur Robert Guinness filed on the 9th instant of a meeting of creditors having been convened pursuant to the said order but at such meeting no creditors attended and also the affidavit of Charles Henry Lunt filed on the 18th day of September last this Court doth declare that the following persons and firms respectively have proved their debts or claims:—

And the Court doth accordingly direct that the schedule annexed to the said petition be amended by specifying therein such of the said debts if any as are not already specified. And upon consideration of the matters aforesaid at this the final hearing of the said petition the Court doth declare that the said Debtor is entitled to full relief according to the provisions of the said Act upon his execution of the deed hereinafter mentioned.

And this Court doth further order and direct that the said Debtor do cede and deliver convey and assign all his estate and effects at the time of his making and filing the said petition to Edward Reece of the city of Christchurch in the province of Canterbury in the colony of New Zealand Ironmonger and Charles James Sale of Oxford in the said province Gentleman as trustees of the said debtor's estate such conveyance and assignment to be pursuant to the said Act and to contain all requisite powers for enabling the said Edward Reece and Charles James Sale to recover and receive all debts moneys goods chattels estate and effects in any way belonging to or due and payable to the said debtor upon the trusts with the powers and subject to the conditions requisite for the purpose of selling disposing of and getting in and receiving or otherwise realising such estate moneys goods chattels and effects and thereout in the first place of payment of the sum of one shilling in the pound to be computed on the gross amount of all moneys received and recovered from such estate and effects such sum to be paid into court to the credit of the Insolvent Estates Fund pursuant to the said Act and in the next place of satisfying all costs charges and expenses incurred by order of the Court or incidental to the execution of such trusts and all fees of Court and such other sums of money (if any) as shall be ordered by the Court and subject thereto for the purpose of a just distribution and administration of such estate and effects between and amongst and for the benefit of all the creditors of the said debtor who have so proved as aforesaid and subject thereto of all such creditors of the said debtor if any at the time of filing his said petition as shall within six calendar months from the date of this order have proved their claims to the satisfaction of the Court or a Judge thereof by way of pro rata distribution without priority. And this Court doth further order that in the meantime and until further order of the Court the said debtor and his estate shall be deemed to be protected from arrest execution and other legal process in respect of all debts of and claims against the said debtor specified in the schedule annexed to the said petition after the same shall have been so amended as aforesaid. And it is hereby declared that upon compliance by the said debtor with the terms of this order he shall be released and discharged from all debts liabilities and engagements specified herein this court expressly reserving to the debtor the receiver and the said trustees and the said creditors liberty to apply to the Court as they may see fit or be advised.

By the Court,
CHRISTOPHER ALDERSON CALVERT,
(L.S.)
Registrar.

GARRICK AND COWLISHAW,
Solicitors to the Petition.

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 Urquhart Macpherson, a debtor; and

In the matter of the Petition of the said debtor.

Tuesday, the 10th day of October, 1865.

At a sitting of the said Court pursuant to the said Act upon the application of Mr. Garrick of Counsel for the said debtor.