In the matter of the Petition of EDWARD GEORGE LAURIE,

of Dunedin, Clerk; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that the Judge has appointed Monday, the 28th day of November instant, for the hearing of the said Petition.

Dated the 4th day of November, 1864.

MACGREGOR & HARVEY,

Solicitors for the above-named Petitioner.

5s.

In the matter of the Petition of HENRY HANSON PAUL,

of Dunedin, Clerk; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is given that the Judge has appointed Monday, the twenty-eighth day of November instant, for the hearing of the said Petition.

Dated the 5th day of November, 1864.

MACGREGOR & HARVEY,

Solicitors for the said Petitioner.

5s.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862," and in the matter of the several Petitions of

JAMES STEWART, of Maori Point, Shotover River, in the Province of Otago, Storekeeper; WILLIAM NICHOLAS SCRUBY, of Frankton, in the Province of Otago, Brewer; and DUNCAN YOUNG, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Laborer.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has appointed Monday, the 28th day of November, 1864, at the hour of 10 in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, to hear the several Petitions of the above-named Insolvent Debtors.

Dated at Dunedin this 5th day of November, 1864.

WILLIAM WILFRID WILSON,

Stafford-street, Dunedin,

Solicitor for the above-named Petitioners.

10s.

(From New Zealand Gazette, No. 40, October 22, 1864.)

WARRANT

Appointing Polling Places.

By His Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand, from time to time, to appoint Polling Places for each Electoral District, within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal Polling Place for the District, and all or any of such Polling Places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other Polling Places in lieu thereof:

Now Know Ye, that I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following places to be Polling Places for the Electoral District hereinafter specified, as constituted by the "Representation Act, 1860," for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives, namely,—

For the District of the Gold Fields :

• The Police Station in the Town of Clyde
• The Police Station in Queenstown.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,

WILLIAM FOX.

POSTAL.

MONEY ORDER BRANCH.

Money Order Office opened at Mintaro, South Australia.

General Post Office,
Auckland,
17th October, 1864.

THE following notice is published for general information.

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

MONEY ORDER OFFICE.

General Post Office, Adelaide,
14th September, 1864.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Money Order Office will be opened at Mintaro on the 1st October next, on and after which date Orders may be issued and made payable at that place.

J. W. LEWIS,
Postmaster-General.

POSTAL.

MONEY ORDER BRANCH.

Alterations and Additions to List of Money Order Offices.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 17th October, 1864.

THE following Notice, issued from the General Post Office, Melbourne, is published for general information.

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

MONEY ORDER OFFICES.

On the 1st October, Money Order Offices will be opened at

• Coleraine

• Digby

• Happy Valley

• Mortlake

• Omeo

• Rosedale

• Skipton

• Wood’s Point.

The office at "Snapper Point" is now called "Mornington."

WILLIAM TURNER,
Deputy Postmaster-General.

General Post Office,
Melbourne, 10th September, 1864.

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