HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that on the 29th September, 1864, he received and accepted the resignation of THOMAS PATERSON, Esquire, C.E., as Chief Engineer of Roads for the Province of Otago.

For the Secretary for Public Works.

THOMAS DICK,

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint JOHN TURNDULL THOMSON, Esquire, C.E., to be Engineer of Roads and Works for the Province of Otago. Appointment to date from 29th September last,

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint THOMAS PATERSON, Esquire, C.E., to be Chief Railway Engineer for the Province of Otago. Appointment to date from the 29th September, 1864.

For the Secretary for Public Works.

THOMAS DICK,

CORRECTION.—Second line of Gazette No. 369 of 21st June current, for 30 read 130.

LIST OF PERSONS applying for Relief under the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

Sydney Thomas Bull, of Invercargill, Southland, Storekeeper.

Abraham Moses, of Dunedin, Otago, Dealer in Fancy Goods.

Thomas Kerr, of South Clutha, Otago, Settler.

COMPULSORY SEQUESTRATION.

Sydney Thomas Bull and Frederick Dale, trading as Bull and Dale, of Invercargill, Southland, Storekeepers and Merchants, on the Petition of John M’Pherson, of Invercargill, aforesaid, Merchant.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 24th June, 1865.

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

In the matter of the Petition of THOMAS KERR, of South Clutha, in the Province of Otago, settler, a Debtor; and in the matter of the Petition of Andrew Kerr, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, aforesaid, a Creditor of the said Thomas Kerr to the extent of not less than Fifty Pounds; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman has this day appointed Monday the fourteenth day of August next, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the hearing of the matters of the abovementioned Petition.

Dated this twenty-first day of June, 1865.

B. C. HAGGITT,
9s.
Solicitor for the said Petitioners.

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

In the matter of the Petition of ABRAHAM MOSES of Dunedin, New Zealand, dealer in fancy goods, a Debtor; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

TAKE Notice that His Honor the Judge has appointed the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the hearing of the above Petition.

Dated this twenty-first day of June, 1865.

J. H. O’LOUGHLIN,
6s.
Solicitor for the Petitioner.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership (if any) heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, ALEXANDER CAIRNS, Dunedin, and WILLIAM GEDDES of Melbourne, Contractors in the construction of Rattray-street Jetty, Dunedin, was, on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1864, dissolved and put an end to; and that the undersigned Alexander Cairns will receive and pay all debts due from or to the said jetty construction.

In witness whereof, dated this second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

ALEXANDER CAIRNS.
WILLIAM GEDDES.

Witness to both signatures,
H. W. Cairns.
6s.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 22nd June, 1865.

THE following Tables, compiled from the Census Returns, are published for general information.

THOMAS DICK, Provincial Secretary.

POPULATION OF PROVINCIAL COUNCIL DISTRICTS, 1ST DECEMBER, 1864.