Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Oct. 4, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

Constable Charles Greenwood
to be Inspector of Slaughter-houses for the Akaroa District, vice Bickle, deceased.

F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Oct. 8, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

George Berry Johnson
to be Pound Keeper at the Lyttelton Pound.

F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Oct. 4, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserve, temporarily, under the 19th clause of the Waste Land Regulations:

No. 786, in red.—Four hundred and twenty acres, more or less, situate in the Ashburton District, being bounded on the north by the River Rakaia, on the east by a line in continuation of the eastern boundary of Reserve No. 173 (in red), on the south by that Reserve, the Homestead pre-emptive right on Run 90, by sections numbered 6127 and 6728, and on the west by Reserve No. 317 (in red), and by the before mentioned section No. 6127, subject nevertheless to the line of the Great South Road, and to the alternative line of that road—For Ferry purposes.

F. E. STEWART,
Secretary for Public Works.

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 “Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865.”

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of six several Orders of the Supreme Court under the provisions of the above named Acts the estates of the undermentioned debtors have been sequestrated and vested in Henry Fowle Seager as Receiver and Monday the Twelfth day of November next is appointed for the hearing of the several petitions at the Court House Christchurch at eleven o’clock in the forenoon:

Thomas Machin, of Papanui Road, Christchurch, Bricklayer.

William Epthorp Samuels, of Gloucester Street, Christchurch, Painter, Plumber, and Glazier, and late of the White Horse Tavern, Tuam Street, Licensed Victualler.

John Stewart, of the Courtenay Arms Hotel, Felton Ferry, Waimakariri, Licensed Victualler.

William Henry Greenlee, of Tuam Street, and formerly of Colombo Street, Christchurch, Corn Chandler and Dealer in Hay and Straw.

David Marks, of Colombo Street, Christchurch, General Dealer.

NOTICE is also given that the hearing of the under-mentioned debtor is also appointed for the said Twelfth day of November next and that in the meantime the said debtor is protected from all legal process for debt; viz.—

Joseph Exall, of Christchurch, Shorthand Reporter.

Francis Slater,
Solicitor to the Petitions.

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 “Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865.”

HIS Honor Henry Barnes Gresson, Esq., the Judge presiding in this Honorable Court, has appointed that the Court shall sit, for the despatch of business accruing under the provisions of the above mentioned Acts, at the Court House, Christchurch, on Monday, the Twelfth day of November next, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon.

Christopher Alderson Calvert,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 11, 1866.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862;” and
In the matter of John Edward Darby, of Christchurch, in the said district, Hotel Keeper, a debtor.

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the above mentioned debtor has been sequestrated by order of His Honor Mr. Justice Gresson made on the Second day of October instant on a petition filed in this Honorable Court in pursuance of the above named Acts and Monday the Twelfth day of November next at eleven o’clock in the forenoon has been appointed for the hearing.