THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 133

Government Annuities Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1870.

N
OTICE is hereby given, that Government
Insurance and Annuities Offices, under "The
Government Annuities Act, 1869," have been opened
at the Chief Post Offices at Auckland, New Plymouth,
Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch,
Dunedin, and Invercargill, and at the Post Offices at
Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport, and Charleston.

All persons wishing to obtain Annuities, immediate
or deferred, Life Insurances, or other advantages
under the Act, will receive every information and
the necessary forms on application at either of the
above-named offices.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

R
EPUBLISHED in pursuance of Diseased Cattle
Acts.

Hokitika, 2nd February, 1870.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers delegated
to me under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," I
hereby appoint

THOMAS KNOWLES CHRISTIAN, Esq.,
to be a Cattle Inspector for the County of Westland.

C. HOOS,
Governor's Delegate.

N
OTICE.—" Provincial Compulsory Lands Taking
Act, 1866.”—Notice is hereby given, that it is
intended to introduce a Bill into the Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago, at its next Session,
authorizing the Superintendent of the Province of
Otago to take compulsorily, for the purpose of com-
pleting a road in the Owhiro District, a portion of
Section thirty-seven (37), Taieri River Sections, on
the map of the Taieri Survey District. And notice
is hereby further given, that a copy of the Bill so
intended to be introduced as aforesaid, may be
inspected at the office of the Clerk of the said
Provincial Council on and after the thirty-first day of
March next ensuing the date hereof.

Dated this eleventh day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.
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JOHN HARDY,
Agent to the Owhiro Local Road Board.

N
OTICE.—" Provincial Compulsory Lands Taking
Act, 1866.”—Notice is hereby given, that it is
intended to introduce a Bill into the Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago, at its next Session,
authorizing the Superintendent of the Province of
Otago to take compulsorily, for the purpose of
completing a road in the Pine Hill Road District, a
portion of Sections sixteen (16) and seventeen (17),
Block ten (X.), on the map of the North Harbour
and Blueskin Survey District, and for the purpose of
completing another road in the said Road District a
portion of Section fifty-three (53), Block eleven (XI.)
on the map of the said North Harbour and Blueskin
Survey District. And notice is hereby further given,
that a copy of the Bill so intended to be introduced
as aforesaid, may be inspected at the office of the
Clerk of the said Provincial Council on and after
the thirty-first day of March now instant.

Dated this eighth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.
B. C. HAGGITT,
Provincial Solicitor, Otago.

P
ATENTS ACT, 1860.—Notice is hereby given,
that application has been made to His Excel-
lency the Governor, by and on behalf of Spiridion
Rikys, of Wellington, in the Province of Wellington,

Gentleman, for the grant to him of Letters Patent
pursuant to the provisions of "The Patents Act,
1860," for the exclusive use, within the Colony of
New Zealand, of an Invention for cleaning Phormium
tenax and other Fibres by the use of chemical
appliances.

Any person desirous of entering an objection to
such grant is required to send, within four months of
the publication hereof, to the office of John Boyle
Bennett, Esquire, at Wellington, the officer ap-
pointed to receive the same, a statement in writing,
setting forth clearly the grounds of such objection,
subscribed with his proper name and address.

Dated at Wellington, the fifteenth day of March,
1870.
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IZARD AND PHARAZYN,
Solicitors for the Applicant.

N
OTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
hitherto subsisting between Robert James
Loughnan, Andrew Duncan, Philip Hanmer, and
Leonard Harper, carrying on the business of Flax
Dressers at the Halswell, in the Province of Canter-
bury, has been dissolved as from the twenty-fourth
day of February last, by mutual consent. All debts
owing or payable to the late Copartnership are to be
paid to, and the liabilities thereof will be discharged
by, the said Robert James Loughnan.

Dated this fourth day of March, 1870.

R. J. LOUGHNAN.
LEONARD HARPER.
PHILIP HANMER.
ANDREW DUNCAN.

Witness to the signatures of Robert James
Loughnan, Andrew Duncan, Philip Hanmer, and
Leonard Harper—Geo. Taylor, Clerk to Hanmer and
Harper, Solicitors, Christchurch.
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N
OTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
hitherto subsisting between the undersigned
Charles Walter Dumergue and Robert Andrew
Loughnan, as Flax Dressers, has this day been
dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be
carried on by Robert Andrew Loughnan alone, to
whom all debts due to the Partnership must be paid,
and by whom the liabilities of the Partnership will
be discharged.

Dated this fifth day of March, 1870.

C. W. DUMERGUE.
R. A. LOUGHNAN.

Witness to the signature of Charles Walter
Dumergue and Robert Andrew Loughnan—A. Gibb,
Flax Dresser, Oxford.
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A
CTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The following Acts,
passed during the Session of the Assembly,
1869, are now published, and can be procured from
the Government Printer. Copies forwarded to any
part of the Colony, post free, at the following
prices:--

No.

1. Imprest Supply
2. Treasury Bills
3. Enquiry into Wrecks
4. Restriction on Marine Re-assurance Removal
5. Merchant Shipping Acts Adoption
6. Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868, Amendment
7. Public Payments without Probate
8. Nelson Marriages
9. Southland Provincial Debt Acts Amendment
10. Auckland Gold Fields Proclamations Validation...
11. Otago Settlements
12. Nelson and Cobden Railway. Act Amendment
13. Canterbury Waste Lands...
14. Naval and Military Settlers
15. Wellington and Hawke's Bay Public Debt
    Apportionment Act Extension
16. Provincial Elections Act Amendment
17. Military Contribution
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