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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and determine the persons who, by virtue of such
dealings, contracts, and conveyances, are the legal or
equitable owners of the lands which have been the
subject of such Exchanges, and that whether such
dealings, contracts, and conveyances have been in
form dealings with, or contracts for, or conveyances
of lands purchased from the Plymouth Company of
New Zealand, or the New Zealand Company, or the
Crown, or have been in form dealings with, or con-
tracts for, or conveyances of lands part of the public
reserves of the Town of New Plymouth, or with, for,
and of lands for which land so purchased has been
agreed or arranged to be exchanged:

And whereas the above-named Commissioners,
having inquired into and investigated the matters
and things aforesaid, are informed and believe that
the under-named original owners, whose lands are
proposed to be taken and granted in exchange with-
out his or their consent, are absentees from the
Province of Taranaki and not known to be within
the Colony of New Zealand, or the heirs-at-law or
devisees of such owner or owners, such owner or
owners are hereby called to appear personally or by
his or their agent or agents before the said Commis-
sioners on the thirty-first day of May, 1871, at New
Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, in the Colony
aforesaid.

clause 9 of "The Public Domains Act, 1860," will be
strictly enforced:—

"Whoever shall do or attempt to do any of the
following things, without the license of the Governor,
upon or within the boundaries of this land, shall be
liable to a penalty, over and above the damage done,
not exceeding £20:—

"Light a fire.
"Wilfully break a fence, or any part of a fence.
"Wilfully dig or cut the sod.
"Shoot at any bird or animal with a gun or other
instrument.
"Wilfully take away, destroy, or injure any bird
or animal being upon the said land, or any egg
of any bird.
"Take away any wood, shrub, plant, or other
thing."

By order of the Board.

JAMES HECTOR.

Wellington, 16th September, 1870.

Name of Original
Owner.

Number and Acreage
of Section to be taken.

Number and Acreage of
Section to be given in
Exchange.

Given under our hands at New Plymouth, this
thirty-first day of October, 1870.

JOSIAH FLIGHT,
J. STEPHENSON SMITH, } Commissioners.

DISSOLUTION of Partnership.—Notice is hereby
given, that the Partnership between the under-
signed Edmund Peel Kenyon and Henry Dyer
Maddock, carrying on business as Barristers, At-
torneys-at-law, and Proctors, at Dunedin, in the
Province of Otago, and Colony of New Zealand,
under the style or firm of "Kenyon and Maddock,"
has been this day dissolved by mutual consent.

And notice is hereby further given, that the
business of the late firm will continue to be carried
on by Mr. Kenyon.

Dated at Dunedin, this twenty-seventh day of
September, 1870.

E. P. KENYON.
H. D. MADDOCK.

Witness—
John J. Hall, Accountant, Dunedin. 458

NOTICE.—The Partnership hitherto existing be-
tween the undersigned has this day been
dissolved by mutual consent.

SAMUEL COCHRANE.
WM. S. COCHRANE.

Fort Street, Auckland,
31st October, 1870. 457

NOTICE.—The Botanic Garden Reserve, Tinakori
Road, Wellington, being a fenced Public Domain,
the public are requested to assist the Curators in
protecting it from wanton injury; and offenders are
hereby cautioned that the following provisions of

THE NEW ZEALAND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

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GEO. DIDSBURY,
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Colony.

Wellington, 17th November, 1870.

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