THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

MARINE BOARD.

TO CONTRACTORS.

Two Lighthouses on the Coast of New Zealand.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 8th March, 1864.

TENDERS will be received at the office of
the Marine Board, Port Chalmers, until
noon on Tuesday, 22nd March, 1864, for the
erection of Lighthouse Towers and Dwelling
Houses on Dog Island, Foveaux Strait, and
on Tairoa's Head, Otago Harbour.

Plans and specifications to be seen at the
Marine Board Office, Port Chalmers, after
the 1st March.

The Board do not bind themselves to
accept the lowest or any offer.

Plans and specifications are in the course
of preparation for a Lighthouse, &c., at Cape
Saunders, which will be shortly proceeded
with.—By order,

THOMAS ROBERTSON,
Secretary to the Marine Board.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-
mentioned Warehouses in the port of
Auckland have been duly appointed and
approved, under the 11th Clause of the
"Customs Regulation Act, 1858," for the
reception of goods under bond:—

A portion of the lower storey of a brick
and stone building, situated in rear of the
premises of Messrs. Combes and Daldy,
merchants, Lower Queen-street, Auckland,
and in occupation of Messrs. Thornton,
Smith, and Firth, and known as

THORNTON, SMITH, AND FIRTH'S WAREHOUSE.

An iron store, situated in High-street, in
the occupation of Messrs. Cruickshank,
Smart, and Co., and will now form part of
the stack of warehouse, known as

CRUICKSHANK, SMART, & CO.'S WAREHOUSE.

W. YOUNG,
Deputy Commissioner.

Custom House, Auckland,
4th March, 1864.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-
mentioned person has been duly
licensed to act as a Custom House Agent, at
the port of Onehunga, under the "Customs
Regulation Act, 1858," for the year ending
31st December, 1864.

RICHARD NAZER, Onehunga,
WILLIAM YOUNG,
Deputy Commissioner.

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
estate of THOMAS ATKINSON, lately
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carrying on business at Lyttelton, in
the said district, as a hotelkeeper, a
debtor; and in the matter of the
petition of EDWARD ALLEN HAR-
GREAVES, of Lyttelton aforesaid, mer-
chant, a creditor.

This Fifteenth day of December, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-three.

UPON the application of Mr. Slater of
counsel for the said Debtor, and Mr.
Harston of counsel for the said Petitioner,
and upon reading the Order made the
Seventeenth day of November last past, and
Affidavit of Publication in the Provincial
Government Gazette and in a local news-
paper of the day of hearing, fourteen days
before such day of hearing, filed on the
Sixteenth day of November last, and certain
minutes of a meeting of creditors convened
to such Order, filed on the Fourth instant,
the said Debtor appearing and attending in
person. Upon the examination of the said
Debtor 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:—

Hawkes and Strouss ................... £57 9 0
Ann Wakelin ............................ 10 14 0
Edward Allen Hargreaves... 393 1 5
Charles William Howard } 100 8 0
Wooledge
Henry Moss .............................. 61 2 10
L. E. Nathan and Company ...... 34 8 5
Frederick Jenkins ..................... 156 7 5
Taylor and Company................ 103 19 0

Upon consideration of the matters afore-
said at this the final hearing of the said
petition, the Court doth further declare that
the said Debtor is entitled to full relief
according to the provisions of the said Act,
upon his execution of the Deed hereinafter
mentioned. And this Court doth further
order and direct the said Debtor to cede and
deliver, convey and assign, all his estate and
effects at the time of the making and filing
the said Petition to Edward Allen Har-
greaves, of Lyttelton, in the said district,
merchant, and Frederick Jenkins, of the city
of Christchurch, in the said district, builder,
such persons appearing to the Court to have
been chosen by the creditors, at a meeting
convened for that purpose pursuant to the
order of this Court before named, as the
persons to act as trustees, such conveyance
and assignment to be pursuant to the said
Act, and to contain all requisite powers for
enabling the said Edward Allen Hargreaves
and Frederick Jenkins to recover and receive
all debts, monies, goods, chattels, estate, and
effects, in any way belonging to, or due and
payable to, the said debtor, upon the trusts,
with the powers, and subject to the condi-
tions requisite for the purpose of selling,
disposing, of getting in and receiving, or
otherwise realizing such estate, monies,
goods, chattels, and effects; and thereout, in
the first place, of payment of a sum of one