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the average, 49°.2 compared to 49°.9; also the remaining results, except the rainfall which was only 0.83 inches, against 1.43 inches; the number of frosty nights also was much in excess of the average, or 20 to 9. Thermal range, 37°.0, from 67°.6 to 30°.6. Mean direction of the wind, E. by S.

Rainfall from January 1 to September 30 each year, as follows:—

1864 ... 15.66 inches on 78 days.
1865 ... 20.45 " " 79 "
1866 ... 18.65 " " 63 "
1867 ... 22.67 " " 67 "

Rainfall at Lyttelton, in September, 1.378 inches on 6 days (Captain Gibson).

Hokitika.

At the West Coast also the weather was remarkably fine during the month of September. There were slight thunder storms on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, the only atmospheric disturbances worth recording. The rainfall was far below any month registered there, only 1.88 inches, which fell mostly in showers on 10 different days; the heaviest daily fall being 0.74 inches on the 10th. There were no high winds, the greatest velocity in one day was 187 miles, on the 6th. The mean temperature of the month, 57°.6, was 1°.4 higher than at Christchurch. Number of frosty nights, 7. Total range of temperature, 35°.5, or from 67°.0 to 31°.5. Mean direction of the wind, N.W. by W.

Rainfall from January 1 to September 30, 58.27 inches on 122 days, against 90.81 inches on 152 days, during the same period in the year 1866.

R. L. HOLMES,
Meteorological Observer,
Christchurch.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Acts;” and
In the matter of Joseph Thrinwell Dixon of the Ferry Road near Christchurch in the said District Shipwright a debtor.

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the abovementioned debtor has been sequestrated by order of His Honor Mr. Justice Gresson made on the Nineteenth day of November instant on a petition filed in this Honorable Court in pursuance of the abovementioned Acts and Wednesday the Eighteenth day of December 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 21st day of November 1867.

THOMAS I. JOYNT,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Acts;” and
In the matter of John Fisher of Christchurch Carpenter formerly carrying on business in Christchurch with one George Whitley a debtor.

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the abovementioned debtor has been sequestrated by order of His Honor Mr. Justice Gresson made on the Nineteenth day of November instant on a petition filed in this Honorable Court in pursuance of the above named Acts and Wednesday the Eighteenth day of December 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 21st day of November 1867.

THOMAS I. JOYNT,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Acts;” and
In the matter of Hugh Fletcher Campbell of Christchurch in the said District Commission Agent a debtor.

NOTICE is hereby given that by an order of this Honorable Court made in this matter on the Fifteenth day of November instant the hearing of the petition of the above named debtor was adjourned to Wednesday the Eighteenth day of December next at eleven o’clock in the forenoon 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 21st day of November 1867.

THOMAS I. JOYNT,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

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.