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said Walter Hislop thereunto annexed, and the

affidavit of William Graham, sworn and filed therein,

and upon hearing Mr. Turton of Counsel for the said

Petitioner, and Mr. Barton of Counsel for the above-
named William Graham, the interim sequestrator
of the estate and effects of the said Petitioner, it was

ordered, that within the space of seven days from the
date of the said order, or within such extended time

as this Court shall grant for that purpose, the said

Petitioner should convey, assign, and make over all

his real and personal estate and effects unto Henry

Tewsley, of Dunedin aforesaid, Draper, and to the

said William Graham, upon trust, for the collection

and conversion into money of the said estate and effects,

and the distribution of the net proceeds pro rata, and

subject to existing legal priorities (if any), amongst

such of the Creditors of the said Petitioner as should

duly prove their respective debts by affidavits, filed in

the office of the Registrar, at Dunedin, within the

space of three calendar months from the date of the

registration of the said Deed in this Court: And

whereas the said order has by an order of even date

herewith been varied in so far as the same related to
the time within which Creditors of the said Petitioner

must come in and prove their claims, and by which

said varying order such time has been enlarged from

three calendar months to nine calendar months from
the date of the registration of the said Deed as aforesaid, or within such further time as the Court might,
before the expiration of the said space of nine months,

order and direct: And whereas the said Debtor,

Walter Hislop, having complied with the terms of the

said hereinbefore in part recited orders, and upon

hearing Mr. Turton of Counsel for the said Debtor,

and Mr. Barton of Counsel for the said Henry Tewsley

and William Graham, it is hereby ordered that the

said Walter Hislop be released and discharged from

his debts, liabilities, and engagements, specified

in the Schedule marked “B” annexed to his said

Petition.

Dated at Dunedin, this seventh day of November,
1864.

By the Court,

(L.S.) ROBERT CHAPMAN,

30s. Registrar.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of MOSES MENDOZA, of

Invercargill, in the Province of Southland, a

Debtor; and in the matter of the Petition of

Charles Nyulasy, of the same place, being a

Creditor of the said Moses Mendoza to the extent
of not less than Fifty Pounds; and in the matter
of the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862.”

WHEREAS the said Moses Mendoza, with the

concurrence of the said Charles Nyulasy, did, on the 26th day of July last, present his petition for
the sequestration of his Estate for the benefit of all his

Creditors, and for relief according to the provisions of
the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862”; and the said

petition was accepted by His Honor the Judge, who

appointed Saturday, the 15th day of October, A.D.
1864, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court-house

at Invercargill, for the hearing of the said petition;

Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that on the day

last mentioned His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman

adjourned the hearing of the said petition until Monday,
the 12th day of December next, at 10 o’clock in
the forenoon, at the Supreme Court-house, Dunedin,
at which time and place all parties concerned are to
attend.

Dated this 26th day of October, A.D. 1864.

HAGGITT & STAMPER,

Agents for

C. E. BUTTON,

16s. Solicitor for the Petitioner.

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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership
hitherto subsisting between us the undersigned

George Herbert, Daniel Haynes, and Alexander

Rennie Hay, in the business of Merchants and

Drapers, carried on by us in Dunedin under the style or

firm of Herbert, Haynes and Hay, was this day dis-
solved by mutual consent.

Dated this twenty-third day of November, 1864.

GEORGE HERBERT,
DANIEL HAYNES,
ALEXANDER R. HAY.

Witness—

GEORGE COOK,

8s. Solicitor, Dunedin.

(From New Zealand Gazette, No. 42, Nov. 14, 1864.)

A PROCLAMATION

Establishing a District Court at the Otago
Gold Fields.

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.

WHEREAS by the “District Court Act 1858,”

it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record possessing
Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called District
Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time
to time as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony or in any part thereof, Districts within which
such Courts shall be respectively held, and such
Districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to
define or alter, and also to declare by what local
name each such Court shall be designated:—Now

therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance and exe-
cution of the aforesaid authority, do hereby proclaim
and constitute so much and such part of the Province
of Otago as is comprised within the following
boundaries, namely: A line proceeding from Eyre
Mountains, along the western and northern watershed
of the Wakatipu Lake and the northern watershed
of the Kawarau River to Cardrona Hill, thence to Car-
drona River at the junction of Boundary Creek,
thence along Boundary Creek and the Ranges to
Kirtleburn, thence by Kirtleburn to its first feeder
north of the Kawarau River, thence in a north-easterly
direction to Parkburn at its source, thence by
Parkburn to the Clutha River, thence in a north-
easterly direction to Mount Saint Bathans, thence by
the watershed of the Clutha River to Mount Ida,
thence by the watershed of the Taieri River to the
Kakanui Mountains, thence crossing the Shag River
at the junction of Deepdell Creek along the ranges
to Silver Stream, and by Silver Stream to the West
Taieri Road, along the West Taieri Road to the
boundary to the Hundreds, by the boundary of the
Hundreds to the east branch of the Tokomairiro
River, by the said river to the Main South Road, by
the Main South Road to Lovel’s Creek, by Lovel’s
Creek to the south-west boundary of run numbered
54, thence by the said boundary to Crookburn and
across the Clutha River to a point twenty chains west
of the said river, thence in a northerly direction by
a line parallel to the Clutha River to Spylaw Hill,
thence to Spylawburn and by Spylawburn and across
the Pomahaka River to Parasolburn and by Parasol-
burn to the Black Umbrella Mountains, thence by
the ranges to the southern boundary of run numbered
193, and by the said boundary to the Mataura River,
and by the Mataura River to the Eyre Mountains,
the starting point, to be a district within which a