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George Wickham Miller, of Otago Heads, Otago, Butcher, now out of business.

John Allen, of Blackstone’s Hill, Hill’s Creek, Otago, Publican.

Robert Blake, of Dunedin, Otago, Publican.

William Black and Charles Frederick Black, of Omakao, Otago, Runholder

COMPULSORY SEQUESTRATION.

John M’Coll, of Tuapeka, Otago, Storekeeper, on petition of Henry Miller, of Dunedin, Otago, Merchant.

Robert Chapman, Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,

Dunedin, 1st March, 1865.

THE Partnership carried on between Peter M’Gill and John Dewar as Grain Merchants and Flour and Oatmeal Millers, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

Peter M’Gill,

John Dewar.

Witness to the signatures of both

James Elder Brown.

The business will be carried on as formerly by Peter M’Gill, who will collect the debts and discharge the liabilities of the late firm.

Tokomairiro, 1st February, 1865.

(From New Zealand Gazette, Feb. 6, 1865.)

Colonial Defence Office,

Auckland, 6th February, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following promotions and appointments, viz.:—

In the Dunedin Rifle Volunteers (Caversham Company)

Robert Henry Leary, to be Captain. Date of Commission, 1st February, 1865.

H. A. Atkinson.

(From New Zealand Gazette, Jan. 9, 1865.)

NOTICE.

Government Offices,

Wellington, January 7th, 1865.

ALL Officers in receipt of public monies, Accountants in the service of the General Government of the Colony, and Provincial Auditors appointed under “Provincial Audit Act, 1858,” are directed for the future to forward their accounts and returns to the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, Wellington.

William Fitzherbert,

Colonial Treasurer.

(From New Zealand Gazette, Jan. 20, 1865.)

POSTAGE ON CORRESPONDENCE ON PUBLIC SERVICE.

General Post Office,

Wellington, 19th January, 1865.

IN consequence of the abolition of the system of franking correspondence on the public service to go free by post, notice is hereby given, that from and after the 1st proximo, Postmasters will be authorised to receive such correspondence without prepayment, and prefer quarterly accounts for the Postage against the Department posting the same. It will be requisite that all letters, &c., should bear the designation of the Department transmitting them.

William Fitzherbert,

For the Postmaster-General.

CORRESPONDENCE FOR CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS TO BE ADDRESSED TO WELLINGTON.

Treasury,

Wellington, 19th January, 1865.

ALL Officers of Government, and other persons are requested from and after this date, when communicating with the undermentioned Departments of Government, to address their correspondence to Wellington.

The Colonial Secretary’s Department

The Attorney-General’s ...

The Colonial Treasurer’s ...

The Commissioner of Customs’ Department

The Postmaster-General’s ...

The Native Secretary’s ...

The Department of Minister for Colonial Defence

The Auditor of Public Accounts Department.

William Fitzherbert,

Colonial Treasurer.

(From New Zealand Gazette, Jan. 31, 1865.)

C. H. Brown, Esq., appointed Government Commissioner for Native affairs.

Office of the Native Minister,

Auckland, 20th January, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Charles Hunter Brown, Esquire to be Civil Commissioner for Native Affairs in the Provinces of Canterbury, Otago, and Southland.

Walter Mantell.

(From New Zealand Gazette, Feb. 17, 1865.)

WARRANT.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the “Foreign Seamen’s Act, 1860,” I, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby notify that from and after the first day of February, 1865, the provisions of the above mentioned Act will be enforced in respect of the Masters and Crews of ships belonging to Denmark within the Islands of New Zealand.

Given under my hand at Government House, at Auckland, this first day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,

H. A. Atkinson,

For the Colonial Secretary.

Postal.

As to Posting Letters in consequence of Abolition of Franking Free.

General Post Office,

Wellington, February 7th, 1865.

NOTICE is hereby given that as a general rule, in order to meet the convenience of Postmasters, it is desirable as far as possible that the Departments of the General and Provincial Governments, hitherto entitled to frank, should post the letters from each Department at one time, and as early before the closing of the post on each day as may be practicable.

Letters thus entitled to exemption from pre-payment should have the name of the Department written or printed on the left hand corner, together with the name of the person authorised to sign for the Department written in the same part, and the envelope superscribed “On the Public Service only.”

J. L. C. Richardson,

Postmaster-General.

W. Seed, Esq., appointed Collector of Customs at Wellington.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,

Wellington, 6th February, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint William Seed, Esquire to be Collector of Customs at the Port of Wellington.

The appointment to date from the 6th instant.

William Fitzherbert.