THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Peace published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 41,
of the 6th ultimo, and should have been-
HENRY ROGERS,
GEORGE IMLACH CUMMING, and
THOMSON BONAR NEILSON.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th August, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the undermentioned appointments,
viz.:-

In the Auckland Militia.
Samuel Browning, jun., to be Ensign. Date of Com-
mission, 26th June, 1866.

In the 1st Battalion Canterbury Rifle Volunteers.
Lieut. Charles Cook, to be Captain and Adjutant.
Date of Commission, 20th August, 1866.
Courtney Nedwill, M.D., to be Surgeon. Date of
Commission, 20th August, 1866.

In the "Rangiora" Company, Canterbury Rifle
Volunteers.
John Brandon, to be Captain. Date of Commission,
16th August, 1866.

In the No. 2 Company Otago Rifle Volunteers.
William Alexander Tolmie, to be Captain. Date of
Commission, 15th August, 1866.

In the Dunedin Artillery Volunteers.
James Edward Hannah, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission, 16th August, 1866.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

General Land Registry Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1866.
By virtue of the powers in me vested by "The
Deeds Registration Amendment Act, 1863," I
do hereby order that on and after the first day of
September next, in lieu of the fees heretofore payable
under the Order in Council of the 19th April, 1864,
in respect of the registration of Grants from the
Crown, issued under "The Native Lands Act, 1865,"
there shall be one uniform fee of Fifteen shillings
payable on such Grants, and such fee shall be the
total charge for the registration, recording, and
comparing of, and plans delineated upon, any such
Instrument.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Registrar-General of Land.
Approved by His Excellency the Governor in
Council, the 24th August, 1866.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1866.
IN conformity with the 29th clause of "The Gold
Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865," it is hereby
notified that it is intended to grant a Lease for gold-
mining purposes of the Crown Lands to the appli-
cant specified in the following Schedule.
ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Applicant-Samuel Cochrane, for the "Waihau Gold
Mining Company (Limited)."
Locality-At Kapanga, District of Coromandel,
Province of Auckland.
Area-Ten acres, more or less.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Dunedin, 15th August, 1866.
I, ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, Registrar of
Joint Stock Companies for the Provinces of
Otago and Southland, do hereby certify that I have
registered a Memorandum of Association with Articles
of Association annexed, establishing a Company with
limited liability of the shareholders therein, entitled-

"FRANK PINKERTON and Co. (Limited);"
the objects for which the said Company is established
being "the printing and publishing of a newspaper
at Oamaru, and carrying on the general business of
printers and publishers at Oamaru, and doing all
such other things as are incidental or conducive to
the attainment of the above objects;" and I hereby
further notify that in pursuance of "The Joint Stock
Companies Act, 1860," I have issued a Certificate of
Incorporation of the said Company, bearing date the
fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.
A. W. SMITH,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
for Otago and Southland.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand: Otago and
Southland District.
In the matter of the petition of John Guthrie and
William Smeall, both of Dunedin, in the Province
of Otago, New Zealand, carpenters, lately
carrying on business together in co-partnership
with Alexander McFarlane, now of Melbourne,
in the Colony of Victoria, under the firm or
style of "Guthrie, McFarlane, and Co.," debtors;
and in the matter of the petition of John
Craigie, of Port Chalmers, in the Province of
Otago, aforesaid, shipwright, and William Asher
and Joseph Asher, both of Dunedin, aforesaid,
clothiers, creditors of the said John Guthrie
and William Smeall, to the extent of not less
than Fifty pounds in the whole, and in the
matter of "The Debtors and Creditors Act,
1862," and "The Debtors and Creditors Act
Amendment Act, 1865."

THE sixteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
the matter of the above petition coming on this day,
for the second hearing thereof, and upon hearing Mr.
Harris, of counsel for the above-named insolvents,
it is ordered that the Registrar of this honorable
Court, in name and on behalf of the insolvents,
do convey, assign, cede, and deliver, unto William
Oram Ball, of Dunedin, aforesaid, accountant, all
their real and personal estate and effects, of whatever
nature or kind which they, the said insolvents, can
give or order possession, such conveyance and assign-
ment to contain all requisite powers for enabling the
said William Oram Ball to recover and receive debts,
goods, chattels, estate, and effects, in any way be-
longing to, or due and payable to the said insolvents,
upon trust, for the purpose of selling, disposing, or
getting in, and receiving, or otherwise realizing such
estate, moneys, goods, chattels, effects, and thereout-
of satisfying all costs, charges, and expenses incurred
by order of the Court, or incidental to the execution
of such trusts, and to pay the costs of and incidental
to the above petition and subsequent thereto, such
costs to be first taxed in the usual way, and all fees
of Court, and such other sums of money as shall be
ordered by the Court and subject thereto, for the
purpose of distribution and administration of such
estate and effects by way of pro rata distribution
(subject to existing legal priorities) between and
amongst and for the benefit of such of the creditors
of the said insolvents as shall duly prove their re-
spective claims by affidavit filed in the office of the
Registrar of this honorable Court, within three
calendar months from the date of this order; and it
is further ordered, that the said insolvents do attend
in their own proper person, at the Supreme Court
House, Dunedin, aforesaid, on Monday, the tenth
day of September next, to be there and then
examined as this honorable Court may order and
direct.
(L.S.)
By the Court,
ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.