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set over all the personal property of him the said James Nelson, whatsoever and wheresoever, unto the said Andrew Mercer, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, upon and subject to the trusts in the said Deed set forth: And notice is hereby further given, that the said Deed now lies for the inspection and approval or assent, in writing, of the Creditors of the said James Nelson.

Dated the 22nd day of December, 1864.

W. WILFRID WILSON,
Stafford-street, Dunedin.
Solicitor for the said Trustee.

14s.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us, the undersigned Robert Neill, James Denny Rankin, Archibald Chambers, George Munro, and Percival Clay Neill, as Merchants at Geelong, Melbourne, and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria, and Dunedin in the Colony of New Zealand, under the firm of M’Callum, Neill and Co., and at Talbot, in the said Colony of Victoria, under the firm of Neill, Bruce and Co., has been as from the 1st day of September last, dissolved by mutual consent, as far as regards the said Archibald Chambers, who as from that day retired from the concern; and that all debts due and owing to or by the late firm, will be received and paid by the said Robert Neill, James Denny Rankin, George Munro, and Percival Clay Neill.

Dated this 10th day of December, A.D. 1864.

ROBERT NEILL,
JAMES D. RANKIN,
A. CHAMBERS,
GEO. MUNRO,
PERCIVAL CLAY NEILL,
By his Attorney,
ROBERT NEILL.

Witness—William Higgins,
Solicitor, Geelong.

£1 10s.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between Mary Jones and David Ross Lewers, trading as Drapers under the style or firm of Jones and Lewers, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent.

MARY JONES.
DAVID ROSS LEWERS.

Witness—Thos. M. Wilkinson.

December 14th, 1864.

4s.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 45, November 23, 1864.]

A PROCLAMATION

Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Laurence, and at Hamilton, in the Province of Otago.

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.

WHEREAS by the “Resident Magistrates’ Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” it is enacted that every case of a claim for debt or damages, such as might, at the passing of the said Act, be lawfully tried in a Resident Magistrate’s Court, where the debt or damages claimed do not exceed the sum of Twenty Pounds, may be tried in any Resident Magistrate’s Court with respect to which this Act shall be in operation, when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed Fifty Pounds: And it is provided that the Governor may, by proclamation in the Government “Gazette” of the Colony, declare that the limit of Jurisdiction of any such Court shall be extended to One Hundred Pounds, and such limit of Jurisdiction shall be, in such cases, extended accordingly.

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said recited Act, and of an Order in Council, dated the seventeenth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, authorising the issue of Proclamations under the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said recited Act, and especially the powers conferred by sections two and three thereof, shall be exercised to the limit of Jurisdiction of One Hundred Pounds, in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, at Lawrence, on the Tuapeka Gold Fields, and at Hamilton, in the Taieri Gold Fields, respectively, in the Province of Otago: And I do further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

By His Excellency’s command,
FRED. WHITAKER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

General Post Office,

Auckland, 16th November, 1864.

THE following Notices issued by the Marine Board relative to the Light to be exhibited on the Island of Tiri Tiri Matangi, and the Buoy in the Shearer’s Rock, are published for general information.

For the Postmaster-General,
Reader Wood.

Lighthouse, Tiri Tiri Matangi, Hauraki Gulf.

The Lighthouse in course of construction on the S.E. end of Tiri Tiri, in latitude 36° 36’ 30” S., longitude 174° 53’ 15” E., will be lit from sunset to sunrise from and after 1st January, 1865.

The Tower is of iron, 48 feet high, painted red color, and the focal plane of the lantern is 300 feet above high water mark.

The illuminating apparatus is Dioptric of the 2nd order, showing a fixed white light all round the horizon, which may be seen from the deck of a vessel in clear weather at a distance of 23 nautical miles.

Buoy on Shearer’s Rock.

Notice is also given that a red buoy has been laid in 14 fathoms N.N.E. of, and close to, the Shearer’s Rock, distant from the Lighthouse about one mile, with the following magnetic bearings:—Southern extreme of Tiri Tiri, S. 52° W.; Northern extreme of Tiri Tiri, N. 72° W.; Lighthouse Tower, S. 67° W.

R. JOHNSON,
Marine Board Office, Warden.
Auckland, 12th Nov., 1864.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

General Post Office,

Auckland, 8th December, 1864.

THE following Notices, issued by the Marine Board relative to the Lights to be exhibited on various parts of the Coast of New Zealand, viz., on

Dog Island, Foveaux Straits;
Tairoa’s Head, entrance to Otago Harbour;
Godley Head, entrance to Port Lyttelton; and
Mann Island, Cook’s Straits;

are published for general information.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.