THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 141

NOTICE is hereby given, that an Extraordinary
General Meeting of the Shareholders of the
"People's Petroleum Company, Limited," will be
held at the Offices of Messrs. Keeling and Co.,
Brougham Street, New Plymouth, on 23rd April,
1870, at 3 o'clock, for the purpose of receiving the
Liquidator's Report.

ROBERT N. KEELING.
Liquidator.

ACTS 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:-

Act. s. d.
No. 1. Imprest Supply 0 6
” 2. Treasury Bills 0 6
” 3. Enquiry into Wrecks 0 9
” 4. Restriction on Marine Re-assurance Removal 0 6
” 5. Merchant Shipping Acts Adoption 0 6
” 6. Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868, Amendment 0 6
” 7. Public Payments without Probate 0 6
” 8. Nelson Marriages 0 6
” 9. Southland Provincial Debt Acts Amendment 0 6
” 10. Auckland Gold Fields Proclamations Validation... 0 9
” 11. Otago Settlements 0 6
” 12. Nelson and Cobden Railway Act Amendment 0 6
” 13. Canterbury Waste Lands... 0 6
” 14. Naval and Military Settlers 0 6
” 15. Wellington and Hawke's Bay Public Debt
Apportionment Act Extension 0 9
” 16. Provincial Elections Act Amendment 0 6
” 17. Military Contribution 0 6
” 18. Mining Companies Limited Liability Act Amend-
ment 0 9
” 19. Railways 0 6
” 20. Disturbed Districts 1 0
” 21. Intestate Estates Act Amendment 0 6
” 22. Otago Hundreds Regulation 0 6
” 23. Public Revenues (No. 2) 0 6
” 24. Shortland Beach 0 6
” 25. Gold Fields Act Amendment 0 6
” 26. Native Lands 0 9
” 27. Canterbury Temporary Mining Reserves 0 6
” 28. Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1867, Amendment 0 6
” 29. Otago Waste Lands Act, 1866, Amendment 0 6
” 30. Crown Lands (Nelson) Leasing 0 6
” 31. Poverty Bay Grants 0 6
” 32. New Zealand Cross Endowment 0 6
” 33. Commissioners of Crown Lands 0 6
” 34. Bailments of Stock and Chattels Registration 0 6
” 35. Delivery of Goods and Lien for Freight 0 6
” 36. Dangerous Goods 0 6
” 37. Building and Land Societies Amendment 0 6
” 38. Joint Stock Companies Amendment 0 6
” 39. Post Office Savings Banks Amendment 0 6
” 40. Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works Act
Amendment 0 6
” 41. Oamaru Town Reserves Management 0 6
” 42. Greymouth Quays 0 6
” 43. Westland Public House Ordinance Amendment 0 9
” 44. County of Westland Amendment 0 6
” 45. Canterbury Rivers Act Amendment 0 6
” 46. Provincial Councils Legislation Appeal 0 6
” 47. Provincial Acts Validation Act Continuance 0 6
” 48. Provincial Audit Act Amendment 0 6
” 49. Gold Fields Officers' Salaries 0 6

” No.50. Oyster Fisheries Act Amendment 0 6
” 51. Medical Practitioners' Registration 0 9
” 52. Contagious Diseases 1 0
” 53. Vagrant Act, 1866, Amendment ... 0 6
” 54. Gaolers and Prisoners 0 6
” 55. Justices of the Peace Act Amendment ... 0 6
” 56. Trustees' Powers Delegation 0 9
” 57. Arms Act Amendment 0 6
” 58. Armed Constabulary Act Amendment ... 0 6
” 59. New Zealand Commissioners 0 6
” 60. Government Annuities 1 0
” 61. Registration Act Amendment 0 6
” 62. Crown Bonds and Securities 0 6
” 63. New Zealand Law Society 0 6
” 64. Hugo Max Bucholz Naturalization 0 6
” 65. Acclimatization Society of Southland Grant 0 6
” 66. Botanic Garden 0 6
” 67. Public Libraries 0 6
” 68. Whiteley Pension 0 6
” 69. Walsh and Others Pension 0 6
” 70. Stamp Duties Acts Amendment 0 9
” 71. Public Revenues 0 6
” 72. Public Debts Sinking Funds Act Amendment 0 6
” 73. Consolidated Loan Application 0 6
” 74. Treasury Bills Regulations Act Amendment 0 6
” 75. Treasury Bills, No. 2 0 6
” 76. Appropriation 1 0

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PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the charge of
ROBERT ABBOTT, Esq., Curator of the Estates of Deceased Persons, during the Month of February, 1870.

Mile Lagoon (Bro-
ther Rick Donevan
administers). |
| 6 | William O'Brien, labourer | Antonio's
Flat, Upper
Grey
Teremakau | Tipperary... | No account | 12 Feb., 1870 | Found dead in water
race. |
| 10 | Henry Wm. Ser-
geant, alias Henry
Surgeon, miner | Essex | Valueless | 3 Feb., 1870 | Died in Hokitika
Hospital. |

Dated 9th March, 1870.

ROBERT ABBOTT,
Curator, Westland District.