VICTORIA by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith to Mary Jones wife of Henry Jones of Queen-street Dunedin William Jones Arabam Levy storekeeper Dunedin Thomas Husband bookkeeper Dunedin Henry Fogo storekeeper Dunedin The Bank of New Zealand Dunedin Daniel Sweeney storemanager Waikouaiti Samuel Jacobs storekeeper Dunstan John Hart storekeeper Dunstan Lazarus Raphael storekeeper Dunstan and Henry Levy storekeeper Dunstan Greening

WHEREAS an action is now pending in our Supreme Court of New Zealand Southern District Province of Otago between Wolff Harris plaintiff and Henry Jones of Dunedin merchant defendant and in order that the plaintiff may proceed in the said action WE COMMAND you that you and each of you do retain and keep all and singular Lands and other hereditaments monies and chattels bills bonds and other property of whatsoever nature in the custody or under the control of you or either of you at the time of the service of this writ belonging to the above-named Henry Jones or to or in which such defendant shall at that time inallegally or equitably be entitled or otherwise beneficially interested and whether solely or jointly with any other person or persons and all debts of every kind then due by you or either of you to such defendant although the same or part thereof may be payable only at a future day And

WE FURTHER COMMAND you that you and each of you in your own proper persons be and appear before such Judge of our said Court as shall be sitting at Chambers on Saturday the thirty-first day of January instant at Eleven o’clock in the forenoon then and there to be examined touching the premises and to do and receive what shall then and there be considered of you in that behalf and this you shall in no wise omit.

Witness: Christopher William Richmond, Judge at Dunedin of our Supreme Court of New Zealand

(L.S.) this twentieth day of January in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. A. C.,
Deputy-Registrar, Otago.

This Writ was issued by Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, of Princes-street Dunedin Solicitor for the within named plaintiff.

TENDERS will be received at the Provincial Secretary’s Office, Dunedin, until noon of Tuesday, the 10th day of February, 1863, from parties willing to Ditch and Fence with wire, a portion of the Botanical Garden Reserve, at the Water of Leith, Dunedin. The posts have been provided by the Government, and are on the ground; the wire &c., to be furnished by the contractor.

For further particulars apply to Alex. Begg, Gardener of Recreation Grounds, residing at Elm Row, Dunedin.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary

SHEEP PASTURE.

TENDERS will be received at the Provincial Secretary’s Office, until noon of Tuesday, 10th February, 1863, from parties willing to rent, by the month, the Reserves in Hanover and St. David-streets, Dunedin respectively, for Sheep Pastures. Separate tenders to be given.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of His Honor the Superintendent, till noon of Tuesday, the 24th February, 1863, for the erection of a School at East Taieri. Plans and Specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, till 10th February, and after that date at the School, East Taieri, till 20th February, 1863.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

27th January, 1863.

WAREPA, BLOCK II.
(Clutha District.)

CLARENDON BLOCK VII.
(Waihola District.)

PERSONS having claims for Land in the above Blocks, are requested to call at the Land Office, on or before the 28th day of February next, so as to have the same adjusted.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 28th Jan., 1863.

Hankinson’s Flat, Te-Anau Lake,
19th January, 1863.

SIR,—The last opportunity I had of reporting to you was from the Wairaki River, on the 31st October. Since that the country north of it and the Takitimo Mountains have been gone over—much of the time has been occupied in lake survey. The lakes are firstly—one situated about twenty-four