[Provincial Government Notice]

Proclamation of Gold Field

Territory hereinafter described to be a Gold Field, under the provisions of the said Act, and to be called Mount Benger Gold Field, that is to say, All that land bounded towards the north by the Dunstan Gold Field, on the east by a line parallel to the east Bank of the Clutha River at twenty chains distance from that River and extending from the Dunstan Gold Field to the Scrub Burn, towards the south by the Scrub Burn, and an east and west line from the junction of the Scrub Burn and Clutha River aforesaid, and towards the west by a line parallel to the Clutha River at twenty chains distance from the Banks of that River, and extending from the east and west line aforesaid to the Dunstan Gold Field.

And I declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the twelfth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

Given under my hand at Dunedin, this sixth day of November, one (L.S.) thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 7th Nov., 1862.

IT is notified for general information that all communications for his Honor the Superintendent, other than those from Officers of the Imperial and General Government, should be addressed to the Provincial Secretary.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

CROWN GRANTS

CROWN GRANTS in favor of the persons whose names appear in the annexed Schedule, are now ready for issue.

(Signed) Charles Logie,
Receiver of Land Revenue.

Crown Grant Department,
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 5th November, 1862.

Schedule

PORT CHALMERS TOWN BOARD

ELECTION OF A MEMBER OF THE TOWN BOARD

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 8th November, 1862.

IN pursuance of the “Port Chalmers and Invercargill Town Boards Ordinance, 1859,” I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby appoint the Electors entitled to vote for Members for the Town of Port Chalmers in the Provincial Council of Otago, to assemble upon Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of November, 1862, at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, at the School-house, Port Chalmers, for the purpose of electing one person to be a Member of the said Town Board, in room of Mr. David Kilgour, who has resigned his seat as a Member of the said Board.

And further, in pursuance of the said Ordinance, I hereby appoint John Gillies, Esquire, of Dunedin, Returning Officer, to preside at said meeting; and in the event of a poll being demanded, I hereby appoint the polling to take place in the said School-house, in Port Chalmers; on Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of November, 1862.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP

[The following Notice appeared in Gazette No. 214, and is repeated in correction of a typographical error.]

THE co-partnership hitherto subsisting between the undersigned as Drapers, &c., in Dunedin, under the firm of Foster and Armstrong, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent.

All debts due by and to the late firm will be paid and received by James S. Foster, who is authorised to settle the same. Claims, if any, must be presented on or before 8th November next, or they will not be recognised.

JAMES S. FOSTER,
WILLIAM E. ARMSTRONG.

Witness to Signatures:
WILLIAM GRAHAM.

Dunedin, 31st Oct., 1862.

ERRATA

ERRATA.—For “fencing,” which occurs ten times in page 170 of Gazette No. 213, dated 9th October, 1862, read “forming.”

ERRATUM.—In Gazette No. 214, dated 5th November, 1862, page 180, eighth line second column from the top, for “Blue with a White St. Andrew’s Cross, Ebb, Tide, and Bar fit to take,” read, “Bar not fit to take.”