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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Notice to Mariners.

DOG Island Lighthouse is situated on the small
Island of that name in Foveaux Strait, off the
entrance to the Bluff Harbour, in 46° 39' 35"
South latitude, and 168° 26' East longitude, as
measured on the Admiralty Chart.

The light which will be permanently exhibited on
and after the first day of August, 1865, is a Holophotal
Dioptric Revolving White Light of the first order,
shewing a flash every half minute.

It is elevated 150 feet above the level of the sea,
and will be visible in clear weather at a distance of
18 nautical miles.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1865.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 28th July, 1865.

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 name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published
for general information :

Baptists.
The Reverend JOHN DAVIES.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 3, of the 31st of January; No. 12, of
the 8th of April; No. 13, of the 25th of April; No.
18, of the 31st of May; No. 22, of the 27th of June;
No. 23, of the 11th of July; and No. 27, of the 24th
July, in the present year.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this
twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.

JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand: Otago and
Southland District.

In the matter of the petition of Reuben Harris,
of Queenstown, in the Province of Otago,
auctioneer, debtor, and in the matter of the
petition of Christian Lange and Louis Thoneman
carrying on business under the style or firm of
"Lange and Thoneman," creditors of the said
Reuben Harris to the extent of not less than
fifty pounds: and in the matter of "The
Debtors' and Creditors' Act, 1862."

UPON reading the petition of the abovenamed
Reuben Harris, the affidavit thereunto annexed,
and the affidavit of James Crawford, sworn and filed
herein, and upon hearing Mr. Kenyon, of counsel
for the said Reuben Harris, and Mr. Dempsey, of
counsel for the Bank of Australasia, it is ordered
that Robert Chapman, Esquire, Registrar at Dunedin
of the honorable Court, do, in the name and on the
behalf of the said Reuben Harris, cede and deliver,
convey and assign, all the real and personal estate
and effects of him the said Reuben Harris, unto
Christopher Caldwell, of Dunedin aforesaid, manager
of the Bank of Australasia, his heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, upon trust for the sale,
collection, and conversion into money of the said
estate and effects, and out of the moneys to arise
from the sale, collection, and conversion into money
of the said estate and effects,-firstly, to lay aside and
pay a sum equal to one shilling in the pound, in
terms of section 39 of the said Act. Secondly, to
pay and satisfy all costs, charges and expenses (not
exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty pounds),
incurred, or which may be incurred by the said
Reuben Harris, in and about these matters and all
proceedings incidental thereto, upon the same being
first taxed by the said Registrar. Thirdly, to pay all
costs, charges and expenses, incurred by order of the
said Court, and incidental to the execution of such
conveyance and assignment. Fourthly, to distribute
and administer the clear residue of the said moneys
between and amongst, and for the benefit of, all the
creditors of the said Reuben Harris, who shall duly
prove their respective debts by affidavit filed in the
office of the Registrar at Dunedin of this honorable
Court, within the space of six calendar months from
the date of this order, by way of pro rata distribution
and subject to existing legal priorities, and upon and
subject to such other trusts and provisions as this
Court may, at or before the final hearing, direct or
approve.

Dated the third day of July, 1865.

By the Court,
ROBT. CHAPMAN, Registrar.

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
James Thompson.

ON reading the order of this Honorable Court,
dated the eighth day of May last, and on
reading the minutes of the meeting of creditors of
the said James Thompson, held pursuant to such
order on the twentieth day of May last, and on hear-
ing Mr. Izard, of counsel for the said James Thomp-
son, and on examination of James Thompson in open
Court, it is ordered that the recommendation of
the creditors of the said James Thompson, contained
in the said minutes, be confirmed, and that William
Hickson, of Wellington, merchant, and George
Crawford, of the same place, merchant, be appointed
trustees on behalf of the creditors of the said James
Thompson, and that the said James Thompson and
Robert Roger Strang, Esquire, the administering
sequestrator appointed by this Court to join in a
conveyance of all the real and personal estate and
effects of the said James Thompson, to the said
William Hickson and George Crawford, as such
trustees as aforesaid, upon trust for the creditors of
the said James Thompson, such conveyance to be
approved of by the Registrar of this Honourable
Court; and it is further ordered that on the execu-
tion of such conveyance as aforesaid, the said James
Thompson be finally and absolutely discharged from
all debts in the schedule to his petition mentioned,
filed in this Court, due to creditors of the same
James Thompson, resident within the Colony of New
Zealand.

Dated the fifteenth day of July, 1865.

By the Court,
R. R. STRANG,
Registrar.

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
Maurice Mayo, a debtor, not in custody, and of
the petition of William Hannibal Lane, a
creditor, on Wednesday, the twenty-second day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five, at a sitting of the said Court pursuant
to the said Act.