dew point, 48°.5. Highest and lowest
mean daily temperature, 64°.4 and 43°.7;
greatest and least daily range, 30°.0 and
7°.5; mean daily range, 16°.2. Frost
occurred on the nights of the 6th, 11th,
24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th. Spontaneous
evaporation, 1.941 inches. Mean daily
velocity of the wind, 131 miles, or 77 miles
in the daytime, ending 9.30 P.M., and 54
miles in the night; mean direction, E. by S.
Rainfall from January 1 to April 30 each
year, as follows:—

1864 ... 3.960 inches on 26 days,
1865 ... 6.954 „ „ 26 „
1866 ... 7.648 „ „ 27 „
1867 ... 5.067 „ „ 18 „
Rainfall at Lyttelton, in April, 0.395
inches on 3 days.
Rainfall at Brayley, 4.285 inches on 11
days.

Hokitika.

Weather very fine in general. Heavy
rain fell on the morning of the 5th, and on
the 16th and 17th; on the two latter days
4.75 inches were collected. Total rainfall,
7.74 inches, on 10 days; or from January 1
to April 30, 23.92 inches, on 50 days. Fog
prevailed on the 22nd and 23rd; and one
gale was registered on the 17th, from N.E.
Mean temperature, 57°.8, or 3° warmer
than in Christchurch. Greatest cold regis-
tered by exposed thermometer, 35°.0. Mean
velocity of the wind, 12 miles per day less
than at the eastern station. Mean direc-
tion of the wind, N.E. by N.

R. L. HOLMES,
Meteorological Observer,
Christchurch.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Canterbury District.

In the matter of the “ Debtors and Cre-
ditors Acts; ” and

In the matter of the Petition of Joseph
Kronheimer and Julius Kronheimer
trading as “ Kronheimer and Com-
pany ” of Melbourne Victoria praying
for the sequestration of the estate of
Alwin Pahn of Hokitika in the Pro-
vince of Canterbury New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that by an
order of this Honorable Court made
the Seventh day of May instant the estate
and effects of the above named debtor were
sequestrated and Frederick Henry Melvill
Walker of Christchurch aforesaid Accoun-
ant was appointed Receiver under the said
Acts and the Twenty-fourth day of June
next at eleven o’clock in the forenoon at the
Court House Christchurch was appointed as
the time and place for the hearing of the
petition of the said debtor and the said
order was thereby declared to be a vesting
order pursuant to Section 8 of the “ Debtors
and Creditors Act Amendment Act 1865.”

A. C. COTTRELL,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Canterbury District.

In the matter of the “ Debtors and Cre-
ditors Acts; ” and

In the matter of Thomas Cooper and John
Redmond Cooper of Christchurch in
the said district co-partners trading
under the style or firm of “ Thomas
Cooper and Son ” Bricklayers, and of
the said Thomas Cooper separately
debtors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Estates
of the abovementioned Debtors have
been sequestered by order of His Honor Mr.
Justice Gresson made on the Third day of
May instant on a petition filed in this
Honorable Court in pursuance of the
abovementioned Acts and Monday the Twenty-
fourth day of June next at eleven o’clock in
the forenoon has been appointed for the
hearing of such petition at the Court House
Christchurch aforesaid and such order was
declared to be a vesting order pursuant to
Section 8 of the “ Debtors and Creditors
Act Amendment Act 1865.”

Dated this 10th day of May, 1867.

THOMAS I. JOYNT,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Westland District.

In the matter of the “ Debtors and Cre-
ditors Acts; ” and

NOTICE is hereby given that by order
of Court the estate of the abovena-
med Alwin Pahn has been sequestrated in the
hands of Edward Hardcastle and Monday
the Third day of June next at ten o’clock in
the forenoon has been appointed for the
hearing of the insolvent.

Dated this 18th day of May 1867.

GEORGE WILLIAM HARVEY,
Solicitor for the Petitioner.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Westland District.

In the matter of the “ Debtors and Cre-
ditors Acts; ” and

In the matter of the several Petitions of
the following debtors:—

William Kingwill of Kanieri Township near
Hokitika in the Westland District of New
Zealand Storekeeper;
Anthony Butler of Hokitika aforesaid Store-
keeper;