Francis William Franks of and in all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement half an acre, be the same more or less, being lot 37 on the sale plan of rural section 33 on the plan of the Chief Surveyor setting out the rural lands in the said Province of Canterbury; and which parcel of land commences at a point on the Town Belt of Christchurch eighteen chains and seventy links from the north-west corner of said section 33; thence due south one hundred links; thence easterly five hundred links so as to form a rectangular block. And also all that parcel of land situate in the Lincoln District of the Province of Canterbury aforesaid and containing by admeasurement forty acres or thereabouts statute measure, having a frontage of about ten chains to the continuation of the road between sections numbered respectively 2800 and 3040 and running back easterly a distance on the average of forty chains to of and adjoining the beforementioned section 2800 and numbered 5555 on the map of the Chief Surveyor setting out and describing the rural lands in the Lincoln District of the said Province, to be sold by Public Auction at Christchurch on the Seventh day of December next at noon at my office, Armagh street, in the City of Christchurch in the said Province of Canterbury, unless the above-mentioned debt and costs be sooner paid.

And I do hereby also give notice that William Patten Cowlishaw of Cathedral Square in the City of Christchurch aforesaid is the Solicitor of the said William Hannibal Lane, the Execution Creditor.

Given under the authority of me, the undersigned, Alexander Back, Sheriff of the Canterbury District of New Zealand, this twenty-sixth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

ALEXANDER BACK.
Sheriff.

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, Harold Henry DeBourbel, hereby make application to Register "The Rakaia Gold Mining Company, Registered," under the provisions of "The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is to the best of my belief and knowledge true in every particular:

1. The name and style of the Company is "The Rakaia Gold Mining Company, Registered."

2. The place of intended operations is to the north of the Rakaia, in the neighbourhood of the Malvern Hills, in the Province of Canterbury.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is £4000, in 800 shares of £5 each.

4. The amount already paid up is £1375, allotted in 275 paid up shares, to the undermentioned shareholders.

5. The name of the Manager is Harold Henry DeBourbel.

6. The office of the Company is at the office of the said Harold Henry DeBourbel, in Cathedral square, Christchurch.

7. The names and several residences of the Shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date as follows:

Shares
Joseph Baldwin, Christchurch .................. 25
William Ellison Burke, Christchurch ........ 25
George Clarke, Christchurch .................. 25
George Fletcher, Christchurch ................ 25
Edmund Ford, Christchurch .................... 25
John Hill, Lyttelton ............................... 25
William Jones, Christchurch .................. 25
William Arthur Knapman, Christchurch .... 25
Louis Edward Nathan, Christchurch .......... 25
William Francis Warner, Christchurch ....... 25
Joshua Strange Williams, Christchurch ...... 25
Shares as yet unallotted ........................ 525
Total ................................................... 800

Dated this tenth day of September, 1869.

H. H. DEBOURBEL,
Manager.

Witness to Signature—
J. OLIVIER,
Justice of the Peace.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 14, 1869.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that a writ calling for an election to be held for the return of a Member to serve in the Provincial Council for the Town of Lyttelton District has been returned to him with the endorsement that

HENRY RICHARD WEBB, ESQ.,

has been duly elected.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

PUBLICANS’ LICENSES.

LIST OF PERSONS to whom, and of houses for which, licenses were granted at the September Quarterly Meeting, at Lyttelton, to wit:

William Johnson, house at corner of Dublin and Winchester streets—Hotel License.

James William Morton, house at Sumner—Country Hotel.

David Lazarus, house in Oxford street—Wine and Beer.

J. TOWNSEND,
Clerk to the Bench.

September 8, 1869.