THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between the Undersigned as Drapers and Storekeepers, at Hampden, Moeraki, under the Firm of FISHER and KRAKOUR, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business will in future be carried on by the undersigned, M. Krakour, on his own account, to whom all outstanding debts are to be paid.

Dated this fourteenth day of March, 1865.

Witness—JAMES EVANS

SIMON FISHER,
M. KRAKOUR.

6s.

(From New Zealand Gazette, February 24, 1865, No. 6.)

A PROCLAMATION

Constituting Hundreds in the Province of Otago.

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 it is enacted by the “Definition of Districts Act, 1858,” that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony into Counties, Hundreds, Parishes, or such other divisions as he may deem expedient, which shall have such limits, and shall have and be known by such names or designations as in and by the Proclamation constituting the same shall be prescribed:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the power in me in this behalf vested by the said recited Act, Do hereby proclaim and declare as follows:

There shall be within the Province of Otago, in the said Colony the several Hundreds bounded by the limits and known by the names or designations hereunder written; that is to say:

AWAMOKO HUNDRED,

Containing 76 square miles, comprises all that area, bounded towards the North by the Waitaki River, towards the East by the Oamaru Hundred, towards the South by the 45th parallel South Latitude, and towards the West by a line from the said 45th parallel South Latitude to the Waitaki River at the Junction of the Maru-wenua stream.

KAKANUI HUNDRED,

Containing 81 square miles, comprises all that area, bounded on the North, by the 45th parallel of South Latitude, towards the East by the Oamaru and Orepope Hundreds, towards the South by a line due West from the North East Boundary of the Otepopo Hundred, and towards the West by the Meridian of Black Hill.

CATLINS HUNDREDS,

Containing 96 square miles, comprises all that area bounded towards the North East by the Clutha Hundreds, towards the South East by the Ocean, towards the West by a line extending from the intersection of the Puerua Stream, by the Southern boundary line of the West Clutha Hundred, due South to the Ocean.

WAIKAWA HUNDRED,

Containing 16 square miles, comprises all that area, bounded towards the North by an East and West line, four miles from the Mouth of the Waikawa River, towards the East by a North and South line to the Ocean, at a point 2 miles East of the Mouth of the Waikawa River, towards the South by the Ocean, and towards the West by a line running due North from a point two miles West of the Mouth of the Waikawa River.

TOETOE HUNDRED,

Containing 119 square miles, comprises all that area, bounded towards the North by the Kuriwas Stream, towards the East by the Meridian line 169° East Longitude, towards the South by the Tokanui Stream, and towards the West by the Mataura River.

MOKARETA HUNDRED,

Containing 58 square miles, comprises all that area, bounded towards the North by the Mimihau Stream, towards the East by the Meridian line 169° East Longitude, towards the South by the Kuriwas Stream, and towards the West by the Mataura River.

TUTURAU HUNDRED,

Containing 59 square miles, comprises all that area, bounded towards the North by the Otakaramu Stream, towards the East by the Waiariki Stream, and a line to the source of the Otakaramu Stream, towards the South by the Mimihau Stream, and towards the West by the Mataura River.

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

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

FRED. A. WELD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1865.

THE following extract from the London Gazette of the 11th November, 1864, is published for general information.

FRED. A. WELD.

Extract.

Foreign Office,
9th November, 1864.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of

MR. HENRY HOUGHTON

as Consul at Otago, for the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 9, 1865, No. 9.)

Proclamation Revoking a Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of December, 1864, 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.

IN pursuance of the power and authority in me vested under section 8 of the “New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,” I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a Proclamation dated at Government House at Auckland, the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, fixing Rate of Postage on Newspapers, and do hereby proclaim and declare the rate of postage thereby fixed for the transmission of Newspapers by post to be and the same is hereby abolished.

And I do further declare that this proclamation shall take effect on and after the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony this fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

G. GREY.

Approved in Council—FORSTER GORING.

By His Excellency’s command,

J. RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed for the Provincial Government by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.