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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
ferred to Messrs. M'Pherson and Co., and will for the
future be known as Messrs. M'Pherson and Co.'s
Warehouse.

A. J. ELLES,
Deputy-Commissioner.

Custom House, Invercargill,
24th July, 1865.

Customs Notice.

THE Warehouse in the Port of Hokitika which
will be known as

TAGGART and REEVES' BONDING WAREHOUSE,
and is described below, has been approved and ap-
pointed under clause XI, of "The Customs Regula-
tion Act, 1858," as a Warehouse for securing Goods
under Bond without payment of duty on first entry
thereof:--

An Iron Building, owned, occupied and recently
erected by Messrs. Taggart & Reeves, situate
in Sewell-street, in the town of Hokitika, and
on "business site" numbered 220 on the maps
of the Chief Surveyor of Canterbury.

J. W. HAMILTON,
Custom House, Lyttelton,
5th August, 1865.
Deputy Commissioner.

Customs Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given, that

RICHARD BRIGNELL HAYBITTLE
has been duly licensed under clause 16 of "The
Customs Regulation Act, 1858," to act as a Custom
House Agent at the Port of Wellington until the 31st.
December, 1865.

W. SEED,
Deputy Commissioner.

Custom House, Wellington,
7th August, 1865.

Notice to Mariners.

CAPTAIN DECK, of the Government steam-vessel
"St. Kilda," has furnished the following report
of a Sunken Rock on which Her Majesty's ship of
war "Eclipse," struck when drawing 12 feet water:
The Rock is about seven miles to the southward
of East Cape, and is out of the usual course of
vessels drawing so much water as Her Majesty's ship
"Eclipse"-Lat. 37° 46' 20" South; Long. 178
30' 40' E. The bearings of East Cape Island N. 19°
E.; Village Te, S. 63° W.; Wharariki Point, S. 35°
W., all magnetic.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1865.

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

In the matter of the petition of Alexander McLeod
and James Gibson, trading together in co-
partnership under the style or firm of McLeod
and Gibson, of Dunedin, in the Province of
Otago, grocers, debtors, and in the matter of
"The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

UPON reading the petition of the said Alexander
McLeod and James Gibson, and the affidavits
thereunto annexed, and upon hearing Mr. Barton, of
counsel for the said petitioner, and Mr. Harvey,
of counsel for Henry Miller, of Dunedin, merchant,
it is ordered that the Registrar of this Honorable
Court do forthwith convey assign and make over all
the real and personal estate and effects of the said
Alexander McLeod and James Gibson, unto Robert
Wilson, of Dunedin, merchant, and Henry Miller, of
Dunedin, merchant, upon trust for the collection
and conversion into money of the said estate and
effects, and the distribution of the net proceeds pro
rata, and subject to existing legal priorities (if any)
amongst such of the creditors of the said petitioners
as shall duly prove their respective debts by affidavit
filed in the office of the Registrar at Dunedin, within
the space of three calendar months after the date of
the registration of the said deed in this Court.

Dated the fifteenth day of May, 1865.

By the Court,

ROBERT CHAPMAN.
Registrar.

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

In the matter of the petition of Frederick Watts,
of the West Taieri, in the Province of Otago,
settler, a debtor, and in the matter of "The
Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

UPON reading the petition of the said Frederick
Watts, and the affidavits thereto annexed, and
upon hearing Mr. Barton, of counsel for the said
petitioner, it is ordered that the Registrar of this
Honorable Court do forthwith convey assign and
make over all the real and personal estate and effects
of the said Frederick Watts, unto Conrad Rains, of
West Taieri, settler, and Henry Frederick Blatch, of
West Taieri, settler, upon trust for the collection and
conversion into money of the said estate and effects,
and the distribution of the net proceeds pro rata, and
subject to existing legal priorities (if any) amongst
such of the creditors of the said petitioner as shall
duly prove their respective debts by affidavit filed in
the office of the Registrar at Dunedin, within the
space of three calendar months after the date of
the registration of the said deed in this Court.

Dated the fifteenth day of May, 1865.

By the Court,

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Notice.

THE partnership heretofore existing between
JOSIAH BIRCH and WILLIAM COCKERILL BES-
WICK, of Kaiapoi, merchants, trading under the firm of
"Beswick and Birch," has been dissolved by a deed
bearing date the 14th day of June, 1865, and made
between the said Josiah Birch of the one part, and
the said William Cockerill Beswick of the other part,
from the date of the same deed.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.