THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 453

Witness to the signature of Patene Puhata, attached
at Pakihi on the 13th October, 1864—
TIRENI TE HURA TIORIORI.

Witness to the signatures of Ema, Wiremu Epiha,
and Rawiri Takuma----
TIORIORI TE HURA.

Kapanga, 5th October, 1864.

I, Rioia Paora Karepe, hereby consent that the
sum of Five Hundred Pounds, payable yearly, for
the rent of the Tokotea Gold Field, in accordance
with the Agreement entered into on the 23rd June,
1862, shall now and hereafter be paid by four equal
quarterly payments of one hundred and twenty-five
pounds each, payable on the 23rd day of September,
23rd day of December, 23rd day of March, and 23rd
day of June, in each and every year of the continu-
ance of the said agreement. I, James Mackay the
younger, Civil Commissioner for the District of
Waihou, do, on behalf of the Government, hereby
testify my consent to the above arrangement.
RIOLA PAORA KAREPE, her (X) mark
JAMES MACKAY, junior.

Witnesses to the signature--
H. CLINTON BADDELEY
ALAN BAILLIE.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 22nd November, 1864.

IN conformity with the 32nd Clause of the "Gold
Fields Act, 1862," it is hereby notified that it is
intended to grant Leases for Gold Mining purposes
of the Crown Lands, and to the applicants specified
in the following Schedule.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Applicants—William Warrick, William Morton, and
William David Rule.

Locality—On the Bank of the Waipori River, about
one mile from the Waipori Junction.

Area—3 acres, 3 roods, 36 perches.

In a rectilinear Block, bearing from Trigono-
metrical Point M. 162° 31', 7,994 links; thence
319° 11', 2,233 links; thence 174° 45', 698 links
thence 8° 45', 131 links to commencing point;
thence by lines bearing N. 3° 13' W., 514 links:
E. 13° 55' S., 810 links; S. 3° 13' E., 514 links;
W. 13° 55' N., 810 links to commencing point.

Registrar General's Office,
Auckland, 5th December, 1864.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following Names of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS within the meaning of the said Act, are
published for general information:---

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend LEMUEL SAYWELL.

Primitive Methodist Society.
The Reverend WILLIAM COLLEY.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Names of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS within the meaning of the "Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 3, of the 26th January; No. 4, of the
11th of February; No. 9, of the 12th of March;
No. 10, of the 25th of March; No. 11, of the 6th of
April; No. 15, of the 27th of April; No. 20, of the
21st of May; No. 21, of the 6th of June; No. 25, of

the 2nd of July; No. 26, of the 9th of July; No.
27, of the 20th of July; No. 31, of the 16th of
August; No. 33, of the 1st of September; No.
40, of the 22nd of October; and No. 42, of the 14th
of November in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this
fifth day of December, 1864.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Canterbury
District.

In the matter of the "Debtors' and Creditors' Act,
1862," and in the matter of the Petition of
James Hosie, of Kaiapoi, Butcher, a Debtor not
in custody.

Dated this eighteenth day of May, 1864.

UPON the application of Mr. Hanmer of Counsel
for the said Petitioner, and upon reading the
order made on the fifteenth day of February last,
and affidavit of John Levett Hobden of publication
in the Provincial Gazette and in a local newspaper of
the day of hearing fourteen days before such day of
hearing, and of notices in writing of such day of
hearing having been delivered to each and all of the
Creditors named in the Schedule annexed to the said
Petition fourteen days before such day of hear-
ing, and an affidavit of Philip Hanmer filed on the
14th day of May instant, the said Petitioner appear-
ing and attending in person upon the examination of
the said Petitioner upon oath pursuant to the said
Act, this Court doth declare that the following
persons and firms respectively have proved their
debts or claims, namely:---

Names.
Amounts.
£ s. d.
John MacFarlane . . . . 54 19 4
Malcolm MacFarlane . . 51 0 2
Joseph Anderson . . . . 58 14 0
James Jeffrey. . . . . . 201 5 3
Joseph Wright . . . . . 3 0 0
Alexander Alexander . . 5 15 0
Arthur Napier . . . . . 4 1 0
James Baker . . . . . . 45 9 0
Thomas Preecc . . . . . 2 0 0
Alfred Weston . . . . . 11 5 0
White & Co. . . . . . . 5 2 0
Henry Engelbrecht . . . 7 10 0
Do. . . . . . . . . . . 0 6 0
William Cherry . . . . . 25 11 8
Do. . . . . . . . . . . 5 0 0
Walter Wright . . . . . 2 5 0
William Vague . . . . . 3 18 0
James Perrin . . . . . . 6 7 3
Peter Neilsen . . . . . 3 0 10$rac{1}{2}$
Francis B. Greenup . . . 7 7 3$rac{1}{2}$
Benjamin Ellis . . . . . 2 7 0
John Blackmore . . . . . 18 2 11
James Moore . . . . . . 48 4 10
Simpson & Marks . . . . 47 13 2
Belcher & Fairweather . . 7 1 0
Henry Keetly . . . . . . 2 16 0
William White . . . . . 109 19 6
Joseph Keetly . . . . . 15 0 6
Benjamin Packwood . . . 2 2 11
Edward Hurry . . . . . . 16 0 3
Charles Dudding . . . . 37 10 0
John Burgess . . . . . . 2 0 0
Thomas Hassall . . . . . 29 12 8
George Frederick Day . . 7 19 0
Arthur Acheson Dobbs . . 10 0 0
James Anderson . . . . . 4 9 6
James Wylde . . . . . . 35 0 0
William Harris . . . . . 12 0 0
J. M. Frazer . . . . . . 2 15 0