Remarks.

The weather during the month was almost uninterruptedly fine and dry. Hail fell on the morning of the 12th, as also on the 28th. The average total rainfall during September for the years 1864 to 1868 inclusive was 1.287 inches.

R. MAINWARING,
Observer, Christchurch.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, November 3, 1869.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that

William Childs

has been appointed Poundkeeper at the Lyttelton Pound. The appointment to date from the 1st instant.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Secretary for Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, October 28, 1869.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that

John Wild

has been appointed Poundkeeper at the Papanui Pound vice Joseph Fantham, deceased.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Secretary for Public Works.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Canterbury District.

LANE v. FRANKS.

Writ of Fi. Fa.

WHEREAS I the undersigned Alexander Back Sheriff of the Canterbury District of New Zealand have taken in execution and levied upon the real estate and lands hereinafter described of Francis William Franks of the City of Christchurch in the Province of Canterbury in the Canterbury District of the Colony of New Zealand Baker under and by virtue of writ of Fieri Facias for the sum of Seventy-three Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Ninepence Halfpenny with the interest upon the said sum at the rate of Eight Pounds for every One Hundred Pounds by the year from the Twenty-eighth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight besides Sheriff’s Poundage Officer’s Fees and all other incidental expenses and costs issued

out of the said Supreme Court of New Zealand in pursuance of the provisions of “The Execution of Judgments against Real Estates Act, 1867” upon and in respect of a judgment recovered by William Hannibal Lane of the City of Christchurch in the Canterbury District of the Colony of New Zealand against Francis William Franks of the City of Christchurch aforesaid Baker Now I do hereby give notice that it is my intention to cause all the estate and interest (being the equity of redemption upon payment of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds and interest thereon at the rate of Eleven Pounds per centum per annum) of the said 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 aforementioned 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.

CHRISTCHURCH:

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Press Office, Cashel Street, by John Stroomann, Christchurch, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.