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WANTED TENDERS for conveying one portable House to Mount Benger, and one portable Lock-up to Mount Ida (Hogburn). Tenders to be lodged at the Office of the Provincial Secretary, before noon of the 27th instant. For particulars apply at the Government Workshops, Bell Hill.

E. B. CARGILL,
Provincial Secretary.

Dunedin, 25th August, 1863.

FRESH TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Provincial Secretary, Dunedin, until noon of Tuesday, 15th September next, for the construction of a Road from Dunstan Township to the junction of the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers. Specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the Road Engineer’s Office, Dunedin; and at the Police Station, Dunstan.

By order,

JOHN LOGAN,
Secretary to Superintendent.

25th August, 1863.

CROWN GRANTS.

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

W. H. CUTTEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Grant Department,
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin,

SCHEDULE.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, OTAGO AND SOUTH-LAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors’ Act, 1862,” and of the Petition of JAMES M’COLL, of Green Island, in the Province of Otago, New Zealand, Storekeeper, and of RICHARD BOWDEN MARTIN and ALEXANDER CARRICK, of Dunedin aforesaid, Merchants and Co-partners, Creditors of the said JAMES M’COLL to the extent of Fifty pounds and upwards, praying for the sequestration of the estate of the said JAMES M’COLL, and for relief.

WHEREAS the said James M’Coll hath, under and by virtue of the “Debtors and Creditors’ Act, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,” with the concurrence of the said Richard Bowden Martin and Alexander Carrick, made and presented his petition to me, Christopher William Richmond, Esquire, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, residing at Dunedin, in the Otago and Southland District of the Colony of New Zealand, praying (amongst other things) for the sequestration of his estate for the benefit of his Creditors, under the provisions of the said Act, and hath specified by affidavit to my satisfaction the several allegations contained in such petition: AND WHEREAS I have appointed Saturday, the third day of October next, for hearing the matters of the said petition: AND WHEREAS the said James M’Coll having applied to me for an ad interim order of sequestration of his estate and effects under the provisions of the seventeenth section of the said Act, and it having been made to appear to my satisfaction that it is expedient that in the meantime, and until the day appointed for the hearing of the said petition, the estate of the said James M’Coll should be placed under sequestration, I did order and direct that the said estate of the said petitioner should be placed under sequestration in the hands of Richard Bowden Martin, of Dunedin aforesaid, merchant, one of the creditors of the said James M’Coll, upon his entering into a bond with two sufficient sureties conditioned in a sufficient penalty for the due care and custody of the said estate: AND WHEREAS the said Richard Bowden Martin and William Hunter Reynolds, and Edward Bowes Cargill, both of Dunedin aforesaid, merchants, as sureties, have entered into the required bond, and all other the conditions of granting such order have been complied with and fulfilled: Now THEREFORE I DO ORDER that the estate and effects of the said James M’Coll be placed under sequestration in the hands of the said Richard Bowden Martin: AND I do further order and direct that the said estate and effects shall be taken and held by the said Richard Bowden Martin until the said third day of October next, or until the further order of this Honorable Court.

Given under my hand at Dunedin aforesaid, this twenty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

(L.S.)

C. W. RICHMOND,
Judge.