Post Office at Port Chalmers to be a Post Office of the Second Class.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 16th December, 1863.

IT is notified for general information that the Post Office at Port Chalmers, in the Province of Otago, has been constituted a Post Office of the Second Class, for the exchange of separate Mails and other purposes within the meaning of the 4th Clause of the Postal Regulations of 1st April, 1862.

THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES,
Postmaster-General.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Auckland, 18th December, 1863.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1854,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act, are published for general information:—

FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
The Reverend CHARLES CONNOR.

CONGREGATIONAL INDEPENDENTS.
The Reverend ALEXANDER GREY.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby certify that the foregoing names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of “The Marriage Act, 1854,” have been sent in to me in addition to the names in Lists published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, of the 23rd of January; No. 5, of the 14th of February; No. 12, of the 25th of March; No. 14, of the 21st of April; No. 28, of the 11th of July; No. 31, of the 22nd of July; No. 36, of the 6th of August; No. 44, of the 3rd of September; No. 55, of the 27th of October; No. 59, of the 18th of November; and No. 68, of the 11th of December, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this eighteenth day of December, 1863.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the partnership hitherto existing between John Henry Lawlor and Peter Alexander Chavannes, trading as J. H. Lawlor and Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

J. H. LAWLOR,
P. A. CHAVANNES.

Witness, James Smyth, Solicitor, Dunedin.

Dated this 21st day of October, 1863.

Caversham, 7th January, 1864.

WE hereby certify that the business hitherto carried on between Messrs. Mason and Johnson of Caversham, corn dealers and general storekeepers, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

Mr. Johnson is authorized to receive all monies due to the firm, and pay all debts due to this day.

In witness thereof they have hereunto set their names this day and year, January the seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

THOMAS MASON,
JAMES JOHNSON.

Witness by R. DRURY,
Jacob FRANKEL.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the co-partnership hitherto carried on by us, the undersigned, as licensed victuallers at Caversham, near Dunedin, under the style or firm of Toogood and Kingston, has been dissolved as such, from the 7th day of December now, instant, by mutual consent.

Dated at Dunedin the 24th day of December, 1863.

WILLIAM TOOGOOD,
THOMAS KINGSTON.

Witness, W. D. MADDOCK, Solicitor, Dunedin.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, as chemists and druggists, &c., Feech street, Waikouaiti, Otago, has been dissolved by mutual consent, as from the 17th instant.

Dated this 28th day of December, 1863, Waikouaiti, Otago.

HENRY WILLIAMS, M.D.
WILLIAM C. ANCELL.

Witness, Alexander Mackenzie, Waikouaiti.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership between the undersigned, as Livery Stable keepers, was dissolved by mutual consent on the 25th day of March, 1863.

JAMES WILSON,
JOB WAIN.

Dunedin, 6th January, 1864.

Printed and Published for the Otago Provincial Government, By HARNETT & Co., Manse-st., Dunedin.