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at Dunedin, within the space of three months from the
eighth day of August then and now last past, and
upon and subject to such other trusts and provisions
as the Court should, at or before the final hearing of
the said Petition, direct or approve: And it is ordered
that the said David Black Sorley be discharged and
released from his debts, liabilities, and engagements,
specified in the Schedule annexed to his said Petition.

Dated the eleventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.

Upon the motion of Mr. Dempsey.

By the Court,
(L.S.)
ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership
hitherto subsisting between the undersigned
James Smith, James Marshall, and James Marshall,
Junior, as Storekeepers, and carried on in Dunedin
under the style or firm of Smith and Marshall, was
this day dissolved by mutual consent.

All accounts due to or by the late Firm will be
received and paid by Mr. Charles Reid, Accountant,
corner of Princes-street and High-street, who will
transact all business connected with the settlement of
the partnership accounts.

As witness our hands this 19th day of
January, 1865.

JAMES SMITH
JAMES MARSHALL
JAMES MARSHALL, JUN.

Witness—W. M. Hodgkins,
Articled Clerk to
Mr. Howorth, Solicitor, Dunedin.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership
hitherto existing between the undersigned,
under the style or firm of “Hay and Binnie,”
Bakers and Confectioners, George-street, Dunedin,
has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

All debts due by or to the late firm will be paid or
received by the subscriber, John Binnie, who will
continue to carry on the business.

Dated this 21st day of January, 1864.

ROBERT HAY,
JOHN BINNIE.

Witness—John Laing, Accountant, Dunedin.

(From New Zealand Gazette, December 31, 1864, No. 51.)

PROCLAMATION

Fixing Rate of Postage on Newspapers.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable 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 an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, 21st and 22nd Victoria,
Number 15, intituled the “New Zealand Post Office
Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, from time to time, by
Proclamation to be published in the New Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter and abolish the Rates of Postage
at any time payable within the Colony, for the
transmission of letters by post, either between places
within New Zealand, or to or from places beyond
seas, and at what time the same shall be paid; and
that the postage so made payable shall be charged
and paid accordingly; and by the same Act it was
declared that the term “letters” should include,
amongst other things, Newspapers:

And whereas, by a Proclamation bearing date the
Twenty-ninth day of December, 1860, made in pur-
suance of the said recited power, certain rates of
Postage having been fixed for transmission of
letters, and for the transmission in certain cases, as
set forth in the Schedule to the said Proclamation,
and it is expedient to alter the rates of Postage for
the transmission of Newspapers:

Now therefore I, the Governor, in further pur-
suance of the said power and authority, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of New
Zealand, do hereby alter so much of the Proclamation
of the 29th December, 1860, as provides for the
transmission of Newspapers free by post; and do
proclaim and declare that a postage rate shall be
charged and paid before the same shall be transmit-
ted by post as follows, that is to say:

1. On each Newspaper published in the Colony,
   and posted in New Zealand for any other part of
   the Colony—One Penny.

2. On each Newspaper posted in New Zealand for
   England, “vid Southampton,” or by ship direct, or
   for any place beyond seas (except as is specially
   provided for in the above-recited Proclamation)—One
   Penny.

And I do further appoint and declare that this
Proclamation shall take effect on and after the First
day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty-five.

Given under my hand, at the Government
House at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this Twenty-ninth day of December, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-four.

By His Excellency’s command,
G. GREY.

HENRY SEWELL.

Approved in Council,
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

PROCLAMATION

Altering the Fees for Registering Letters.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable
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 Post Office Act, 1858, it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
from time to time, by Proclamation to be Published
in the New Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter and abolish
the Rates of Postage at any time payable within the
Colony, for the transmission of Letters and News-
papers by post, either between places within New
Zealand, or to and from places beyond seas, and at
what time the same shall be paid, and that the
postage so made payable shall be charged and paid
accordingly: And whereas by a Proclamation duly
made and issued, bearing date the Twenty-ninth
December, 1860, the Governor in Council did, in pur-
suance of the said recited power and authority, fix
certain rates of postage, and the times at which the
same respectively should be paid: And whereas it is
desirable that the rates so fixed for Registering Let-
ters should be altered in manner hereinafter set forth: