✨ Financial statement and legal notice of sale




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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

STATEMENT of UNAUTHORISED EXPENDITURE during Financial Year ended March 31st, 1871, as required to be legalised by the Council.

Β£ s. d.
Nelson Hospital ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 448 9 6
" Lunatic Asylum ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14 13 5
" Maintenance of Destitute Poor... ... ... ... 197 17 3
Wardens' Department South-west Goldfields ... ... 590 17 8
Police " " " ... ... ... ... ... 760 3 0
Β£2,012 0 10

H. D. JACKSON,
Provincial Auditor.


IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

NELSON DISTRICT.

RANSOM AND CLARK V. PORTER.

WRIT OF FI FA.

WHEREAS, I, the undersigned, Sheriff of the Westland North District of New Zealand, have Taken in Execution and levied upon the Real Estate and Lands hereinafter described of ADAM PORTER, late of Westport, in the Province of Nelson, in the Judicial District of Nelson, in the Colony of New Zealand, Publican, but now of Grahamstown, in the Province of Auckland, in New Zealand, out of business, the Defendant in the said action at the suit of JAMES RANSOM and JOHN CLARK, of Westport, in the said Province, the Plaintiffs in the said action and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Facias issued out of the said Supreme Court in the said action in pursuance of the provisions of "The Execution of Judgments against Real Estates Act, 1867," for the sum of One hundred and ninety pounds six shillings and fourpence, with the interest upon the said sum at the rate of Eight pounds for every One hundred pounds by the year from the 5th day of May, 1871, besides Sheriff's poundage, Officer's fees, and all other incidental expenses and costs: Now, I do hereby give Notice, that it is my intention to cause all the Estate and Interest, the Fee Simple and inheritance in reversion of the said ADAM PORTER in all that Piece or Parcel of Land situate at Westport aforesaid, being part of allotment No. 8 of Block G of the Native Reserve, having a frontage of 30 feet on Gladstone-street, and running back in a rectangular block 164 feet, or thereabout, as the same land is delineated in the plan drawn in the margin of the conveyance thereof to the said ADAM PORTER, to be Sold by Public Auction, at Westport, on the Ninth day of SEPTEMBER next, at Two 'o'clock in the afternoon, in the said Province of Nelson, unless the above-mentioned debt and costs be sooner paid.

And I do hereby also give Notice that Messrs. PITT and FISHER, of Westport aforesaid, are the Solicitors of the said JAMES RANSOM and JOHN CLARK, the execution creditors.

Given under the authority of me, the undersigned, JOSEPH GILES, Esquire, Sheriff of the Westland North District of New Zealand, this Thirtieth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

JOSEPH GILES,
Sheriff.


Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Nelson, by CHARLES ELLIOTT, Trafalgar-street, Nelson, Printer for the time being to the said Government.




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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

πŸ’° Statement of unauthorised expenditure for the financial year ended 31 March 1871

πŸ’° Finance & Revenue
Financial statement, Unauthorised expenditure, Nelson, Public accounts
  • H. D. Jackson, Provincial Auditor

βš–οΈ Notice of sale of land by public auction in the case of Ransom and Clark v. Porter

βš–οΈ Justice & Law Enforcement
30 May 1871
Supreme Court, Writ of Fieri Facias, Public auction, Land sale, Westport, Debt recovery
  • Adam Porter, Defendant in legal action, property to be sold
  • James Ransom, Plaintiff in legal action
  • John Clark, Plaintiff in legal action

  • Pitt and Fisher, Solicitors
  • Joseph Giles, Sheriff of the Westland North District