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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

NOTICE.

I, LEONARD LAING PARKES, heretofore erroneously called and known by the name of “Leonard Parkes,” formerly of Karamea, in the Provincial District of Nelson, but now of Te Kapua, in the Provincial District of Wellington, Farmer, hereby give notice that on the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nine, I formally assumed and adopted, and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe, the surname of “Parkes” in addition to the surname of “Laing,” but as my last and principal surname. And I give further notice that by a deed poll dated the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nine, duly executed and attested (and enrolled in the office of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at New Plymouth, on the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine), I formally assumed and adopted, and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe, the surname of “Parkes” in addition to the said surname of “Laing,” but as my last and principal surname, and declared that I had assumed and adopted, and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe, the surname of “Parkes” in addition to the said surname of “Laing,” but as my last and principal surname, so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of “Leonard Laing Parkes.”

Dated this twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

LEONARD LAING PARKES.
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I, INA BURNMAN DUGLEBY, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of the University of New Zealand, now residing in Napier, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 9th March next to have my name placed on the Medical Register for the Dominion of New Zealand, and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Napier.

I. B. DUGLEBY.

Dated at Napier, 9th February, 1910.
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BOROUGH OF BIRKENHEAD.

POLL OF RATEPAYERS re RATING PROPERTY ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

PURSUANT to section 37 of “The Rating Act, 1908,” “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” “The Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908,” and all other powers enabling it, public notice is hereby given that a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Birkenhead was taken on the 9th day of February, 1910, in compliance with a requisition of ratepayers demanding a poll to be taken on the question of adopting the system of rating on the unimproved values of land within the borough, with the following result:—
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 193.
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 248.
The number of informal votes recorded was 3.
Majority against the proposal, 55.
I therefore declare that the proposal was not carried.

ALEXANDER KEYES,
Mayor.

A. L. WHITE,
Returning Officer.

Birkenhead.
Dated this 10th day of February, 1910.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1908”; and in the matter of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (Limited), now being wound up voluntarily.

THE creditors of the above-named company are required, on or before the 19th day of April, 1910, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to JOHN KIRKCALDIE and WILLIAM MOWAT HANNAY, of Wellington, New Zealand, Gentlemen, the Voluntary Liquidators of the said company; and, if so required by notice in writing from the said Voluntary Liquidators, or their solicitors, are, by their solicitors or personally, to come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time or place as shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.

Dated this 11th day of February, 1910.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JOHN GILMOUR and ALBERT GIBBARD BENNETT, carrying on business as Farmers at Pohokura, under the style of “Bennett and Gilmour,” has been dissolved as from the 1st day of March, 1908.

Dated the 12th day of February, 1910.

A. G. BENNETT.
JOHN GILMOUR.

Witness—C. Allison, Law Clerk, Manaiā.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto carried on between JOHN CLUNEE BISHOP and ANDREW CLUNEE BISHOP, under the style or firm of “Bishop Bros.,” Sheep-farmers, of Pukehinau and Konini, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent.

All liabilities of the firm will be discharged by Andrew Clunee Bishop, who will also receive all moneys owing to the late firm, and who can alone give a good discharge therefor.

Dated this 25th day of October, 1909.

J. C. BISHOP.

Witness to the signature of John Clunee Bishop—George Winder, J.P.

A. C. BISHOP.

Witness to the signature of Andrew Clunee Bishop—F. T. Hewitt.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
NORTHERN JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

No. 466.

Under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1908.”

Between GERTRUDE VIVIEN FRANCES DORMER, of Eden Terrace, in the City of Auckland, Petitioner, and CHARLES EDGAR BROWNING, formerly of Linley, near Hamilton, in the Provincial District of Auckland, Farm-manager, but now of parts unknown, Respondent.

Edward the Seventh, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith.

To CHARLES EDGAR BROWNING, of parts unknown, Farm-manager.

WHEREAS, GERTRUDE VIVIEN FRANCES DORMER, of the City of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in New Zealand, claiming to have gone through a ceremony of marriage with you, the said Charles Edgar Browning, has filed her petition against you praying for a decree that the said ceremony of marriage is null and void, wherein she alleges that you, the said Charles Edgar Browning, had at the time of such ceremony of marriage a wife then living and to whom you were lawfully married:

And whereas by order of this honourable Court dated the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and ten, it was decreed that this abstract should be advertised once in the New Zealand Government Gazette: Now this is to command you that within forty-five days after the advertisement of this abstract in the New Zealand Government Gazette you do appear in this honourable Court, then and there to make answer to the said petition. And take further notice that in default of your so doing the said Court will, after the expiration of forty-five days after such advertisement at the Supreme Court House at the City of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, proceed to hear the charge proved in due course of law and to pronounce sentence therein your absence notwithstanding. And take further notice that for the purpose aforesaid you are to attend in person, or by your solicitor, at the Registrar’s Office at Auckland, and there to enter an appearance within thirty-eight days after such aforesaid advertisement of this abstract, without which you will not be allowed to address the Court either in person or by counsel at any stage of the proceedings in the cause.

Dated at Auckland, the fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

G. S. CLARK,
Deputy Registrar.

N.B.—A copy of the above-mentioned petition may be inspected at the Supreme Court Office, Auckland, or at the office of Messieurs Buddle, Button, and Company, Solicitors, 6 Wyndham Street, Auckland.

Friends of the above-named Respondent to whose notice this advertisement may come are requested to forward the same to him.
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