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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1869.

IT is hereby notified, that a Despatch has been
received from the Right Honorable the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, stating that the Chilian
Minister has reported that the appointment of Mr.
Santiago Burtt, as Consul at Auckland for Chili, has
been cancelled.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1869.

IT is hereby notified, that the Right Honorable the
Secretary of State for the Colonies has reported
that Mr. David Boosie Cruickshank is not authorized
to act as Consular Agent for the United States in
New Zealand.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the under-mentioned
persons, viz.:-

Name. Residence. Occupation.
Martin Landrebe ... Marewhenua, Otago Labourer.
Henry Jacob Charles The Hutt, Welling- Shoemaker.
Brandt ton
Jules George Wilson Graham's Town, Gold Miner.
Auckland
James de Hirsch ... ... Shortland, Auck- Gentleman.
land

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1869.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting a
person named John Smith, who was formerly in
the 68th Regiment, from which he obtained his
discharge about December, 1865, when he settled on
his land in partnership with a man named Martin
Nugent, who was also discharged from the 68th at
the same time, any one who can furnish any infor-
mation respecting him is requested to communicate
with this office. A report had reached Smith's
friends that he had been shot in an affray with the
Natives.

ALEX. C. P. MACDONALD
(for the Under Secretary).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters of Registration under "The
Patents Act, 1860," in favour of

SAMUEL PEACH HOGG,
of Sandhurst, in the Colony of Victoria, Auctioneer,
of Letters Patent granted to him in the said Colony,
dated 24th day of July, 1868, for an Improvement in
the Construction of Centrifugal Sugar Washing
Machines.

Dated 1st September, 1869.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 1st September, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES SEATON, Esq.,
of Portobello, and

WILLIAM MARTIN, Esq.,
of Green Island, in the Province of Otago, to be
Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th August, 1869.

IT is notified for general information, that
Major CHARLES BROWN,
having resigned the command of the Militia and
Volunteers of the Taranaki District, the resignation
is accepted, and his name is placed on the unattached
list, at his own request.

DONALD MCLEAN.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership for
some time past subsisting between us, the
undersigned John Moutray and John Harrison
Barclay, under the style or firm of "Moutray and
Barclay," as Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, in
the City of Nelson, in the Colony of New Zealand,
was this day dissolved by mutual consent, and that
the business will henceforth be carried on by the
said John Moutray alone and in his name, and that
the said John Moutray is authorized to discharge all
debts and receive all credits on account of the said
partnership.

As witness our hands this twenty-eighth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

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JOHN MOUTRAY,
JOHN H. BARCLAY.

I, the undersigned ROBERT PRESTON BAIN, hereby
make application to register "The Who'd have
thought it Gold Mining Company, Registered," under
the provisions of "The Mining Companies Limited
Liability 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 :-

1. The name and style of the Company is "The
   Who'd have thought it Gold Mining Company,
   Registered."
2. The place of operations is at Charleston Flat.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is fourteen
   hundred pounds, in two hundred and eighty shares of
   five pounds each.
4. The amount already paid up is £470.
5. The name in full of the manager is Robert
   Preston Bain.
6. The office of the Company is at Charleston.
7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders, and the number of shares held by each at
   this date, are as follows:---

No. of
Shares.
John Brown ... ... ... ... 40
James Williamson ... ... ... 40
George Bull ... ... ... 40
William Brummett ... ... ... 40
William Ballard ... ... ... 40
Robert Preston Bain ... ... 16
John Gordon Jackson ... ... 16
George Samuel Wegg Horne ... 16
John McIvor ... ... ... 8
George Charles Bowman ... ... 24
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Dated the twenty-seventh day of August, 1869.

R. PRESTON BAIN,
Manager.
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Witness to signature-Charles Broad, J.P.