In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of Patrick Smith,
of Dunedin, Surgeon; and in the matter of the
"Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Judge has appointed Monday, the third day of July next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the hearing of the said Petition.

Dated this thirteenth day of June, 1865.

M. V. HODGE,
10s.
Solicitor for Petitioner, Princes-street.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of John Phillip Armstrong, of Dunedin, Dentist; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Judge has appointed Monday, the third day of July next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the hearing of the said Petition.

Dated this thirteenth day of June, 1865.

M. V. HODGE,
10s.
Solicitor for Petitioner, Princes-street.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of Benjamin Halliday, of Port Chalmers, Seaman (late Hotel-keeper), a Debtor; and in the matter of the Petition of William Halliday, of Dunedin, Hotel-keeper, a Creditor of the said Benjamin Halliday; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor the Judge has appointed the third day of July, 1865, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the hearing of the above Petition.

Dated the 9th day of June, A.D. 1865.

B. HALLIDAY,
7s.
Petitioner in Person.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of William Anderson, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Blacksmith; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman has appointed Monday, the third day of July, 1865, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for hearing the above Petition.

Dated this thirteenth day of June, 1865.

WILLIAM ANDERSON,
6s.
Petitioner.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862;" and in the matter of the several Petitions of Joseph William Robinson, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Hotelkeeper; Alfred Alston, of Dunedin aforesaid, Commercial Traveller; Charles White, of Dunedin aforesaid, Accountant; William Bendall, of Dunedin aforesaid, Master Mariner; James Riddell, of Dunedin aforesaid, Storekeeper; and John Mason, of Dunedin aforesaid, Broker.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Judge of this Court has appointed Monday, the 3rd day of July, 1865, at the hour of 10 in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, to hear the Petitions of the above-named Debtors.

Dated the 18th day of June, A.D. 1865.

WILSON AND KIDSON,
10s.
Stafford Street, Dunedin,
Solicitors for the said Petitioners.

In the matter of the Petition of Walter Simpson, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, a Debtor; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given, that His Honor the Judge has appointed Monday, the third day of July next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court-house, Dunedin, for hearing the above Petition.

Dated this first day of June, 1865.

WALTER SIMPSON,
6s.
Petitioner.

The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates...See Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

[No. 14.]

New Zealand, Banks Peninsula—Fixed Light on Cachalot Head, entrance to Port Lyttelton.

The Colonial Government at New Zealand has given notice, that during the month of March, 1865, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on Cachalot or Godley Head, at the north side of entrance to Port Lyttelton or Port Cooper, Banks’s Peninsula.

The light will be a fixed white light, visible through an arc of 200°, but when bearing from seaward, only from W. ¼ N. round by west and south to S.S.E. ¼ E. It is placed at an elevation of 450 feet above the mean level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 29 miles.

The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses of the second order.

The tower is 30 feet high from base to vane and stands in lat. 43° 35’ 32” S., long. 172° 49’ 30” East of Greenwich.

Fixed Light on Tairoa Head, entrance to Otago Harbor.

Also, that on or about the 2nd day of January, 1865, a light would be exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on Tairoa Head, at the east side of entrance to Otago Harbor.

The light is a fixed red light, visible from seaward when bearing from W. ¼ S. round by south to S.E. It is elevated about 196 feet above the mean level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen at a distance of 20 miles.

The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the third order.

The tower is 39 feet high from base to vane, and with the keeper’s dwelling is white. It stands in lat. 45° 47’ S., long. 170° 45’ East of Greenwich.

All bearings are magnetic. Variation 16° 30’ East in 1865.

By command of their Lordships,

GEO. HENRY RICHARDS,
Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty,
London, 1st March, 1865.

This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:—
New Zealand, No. 1212; Port Cooper, No. 1999; Sheets 8, 9, Nos. 2329, 2332; Otago Harbor, No. 2411; and Otago to Mataura River, No. 2533. Also, New Zealand Pilot, pp. 187, 197.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 17, May 18, 1865.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1865.

The following Letter from the Registrar-General, and the accompanying Returns relative to the Census of New Zealand, taken in December, 1864, are published for general information.

FRED. A. WELD.