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Ratio of Deaths to Births, eight years ending December, 1862.

Canterbury ... 1 to 4.19
Otago ... 1 to 4.04
Nelson ... 1 to 4.03
Wellington ... 1 to 3.90
New Plymouth ... 1 to 3.23
Auckland ... 1 to 2.49

S. A. CUSACK, M.B., F.R.C.S.
THEODOR B. THEBING, M.D.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor JOHN PERRY ROBINSON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.

IN pursuance of the power in me vested, I do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND, in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be deemed to be an Infected District within the meaning of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," and that no Cattle shall be allowed to be imported from that District into the Province of Nelson.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of this Province, this Twentieth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

J. P. ROBINSON,
Superintendent.

Attested,
J. C. RICHMOND,
Provincial Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

OTAGO HARBOUR, NEW ZEALAND.

BUOYS AND BEACONS.

IN order to their being more easily distinguished at Night, it has been deemed necessary to arrange the BUOYS and BEACONS in the Channel from the First Anchorage to Dunedin Bay as follows:—

Black—The Port side of the Channel.
Red—The Starboard.
Striped—That there is a passage on either side.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

DUNEDIN, 10th May, 1864.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, MIDDLE DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862," and in the matter of the Petition of CHARLES WAU, of Massacre Bay, Clifton, in the Province of Nelson, Sawyer.

On Monday the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Before his Honor Mr. JUSTICE JOHNSTON, in Chambers.

UPON reading this Petition, the Schedule thereto, the consent of Samuel Snelling, a Creditor of the said Charles Wau to the extent of not less than Fifty pounds, to the said petition annexed, and the affidavit of the petitioner sworn on the Twenty-third day of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four and upon hearing Mr. Pitt of Counsel for the Petitioner: It is ordered that this Petition be heard on the Twenty-third day of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, at the Supreme Court House, Nelson, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and that the Petitioner do attend at such place and time: And it is further ordered that in the meantime, and until such hearing, the person and estate of the Petitioner be protected from arrest, execution, or other legal process, except under such circumstances as would otherwise render him liable to arrest, on mesne process: And it is further ordered that in the meantime, and until such hearing, and the further order of this Court, the estate and effects of the Petitioner shall be taken and held by or vest in JOHN SHARP, Esquire, Registrar of this Court at Nelson: And it is further ordered that a meeting of the Creditors of the Petitioner be held at the Court House, in Nelson aforesaid, on Thursday, the Seventh day of July next, for the purpose of recommending a trustee or trustees, and making suggestions as to winding up the estate of the said Petitioner: And it is further ordered that after such meeting of creditors, the said Petitioner shall be at liberty to apply to a Judge at Chambers for the appointment of a trustee or trustees of and for the further direction of the Court in reference to the estate of the Petitioner: And it is further ordered that this order shall be published in the Government Gazette for the Province of Nelson, and in one local newspaper: And it is lastly ordered that any creditor of the Petitioner shall be at liberty to apply to this Court at Nelson, in the said month of November, to alter or vary this order.

By the Court,
[L.S.] JOHN SHARP, Registrar.