THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 123

the said debtor, cede and deliver convey and assign
all the estate and effects of the said debtor at the
time of the filing of the said petition to the said
James Edwin Graham, as such trustee, such convey-
ance and assignment to be pursuant to the said Acts,
and to contain all requisite powers for enabling the
said James Edwin Graham to recover and receive all
debts, moneys, 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 conditions requisite, for the purpose of selling,
disposing of, getting in, and receiving or otherwise
realizing such estate, moneys, goods, chattels, and
effects, and thereout in the first place of payment of
all fees payable by law, and. in the next place of
satisfying all costs, charges, and expenses, incurred
by order of the Court, or incidental to the execution
of such trusts, and all fees of Court, and such other
sums of money, if any, as shall be ordered by the
Court. And this Court doth further order, that in
the meantime and until further order of the Court,
the said debtor and his estate shall be deemed to be
protected from arrest, execution, and other legal
process in respect of all debts of and claims against
the said debtor at the time of the filing the said
petition, this Court expressly reserving to all parties
liberty to apply to the Court as they may see fit or
be advised.

(L.S.)
By the Court,
EDWARD S. WILCOCKS,
Registrar.

IN the Supreme Court of New Zealand: Canterbury
District.

In the matter of the Debtors and Creditors Acts,
and in the matter of the estate of Matthew Henry
Oram, a debtor, and in the matter of the petition
of the said debtor.

WEDNESDAY the eighteenth day of December, 1867,
at a sitting of the Court pursuant to the said Acts,
upon the application of Mr. Garrick, of counsel for
the said debtor, and upon reading the order made
herein on the fifteenth day of November last past,
and the affidavit of James Bickerton Fisher sworn
and filed herein, on the seventeenth day of December
instant, the said debtor appearing and attending in
person pursuant to the said Act, and upon the
evamination of the said debtor: This Court doth
declare that the following persons and firms respec-
tively have proved their debts or claims, namely :-

And upon consideration of the matters aforesaid at
this the final hearing of the said petition, this Court
doth further declare that the said debtor is entitled
to full relief according to the provisions of the said
Acts. And this Court doth further order that
Frederic Henry Melville Walker, of Christchurch, in
the Canterbury District aforesaid, accountant, be and
he is hereby appointed trustee, to recover and receive
all debts, moneys, 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 conditions requisite, for the purpose of
selling, disposing of, getting in, and receiving or
otherwise realizing such estate, moneys, goods,
chattels, and effects, and thereout in the first place of
payment of all fees payable by law, and in the next
place of satisfying all costs, charges, and expenses,
incurred by order of the Court, or incidental to the
execution of such trust, and all fees of Court, and
such other sums of money, if any, as shall be ordered
by the Court, and subject thereto, for the purpose of
a just distribution and administration, between and
amongst and for the benefit of all the creditors of
the said debtor who have so proved their debts or
claims as aforesaid, by way of pro rata distribution,
subject to existing legal priorities; and subject
thereto of all creditors of the said debtor, if any, at
the time of filing the said petition, as shall within six
calendar months from the date of this order, have
proved their claims to the satisfaction of the Court,
or a Judge thereof, likewise by way of pro rata
distribution, subject to existing legal priorities. And
this Court doth further order, that in the mean-
time and until further order of the Court, the said
debtor and his estate shall be deemed to be protected
from arrest, execution, and other legal process in
respect of all debts of and claims against the said
debtor, specified in the Schedule annexed to the said
petition, namely :--

And it is hereby declared that the said debtor shall
be released and discharged from all debts, liabilities,
and engagements specified herein, this Court expressly
reserving to the said debtor, the receiver, the said
trustee, and the creditors, liberty to apply to the
Court, as they may see fit or be advised.

(L.S.)
By the Court,
EDWARD S. WILCOCKS,
Registrar.

I, the undersigned EMANUEL THOMPSON, hereby make
application to register "The Independent
Water Race Company, Registered," under the
provisions of "The Mining Companies Limited Lia-
bility Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely
declare that the following statement is, to the best
of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular,
namely: -