OTAGO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

VOL. IX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1865. No. 375

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

[Re-printed from last Gazette, in consequence of James instead of Arthur Beverly having been printed in several copies.]

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 18th July, 1865.

THE Honorable the Acting-Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD HULME, Esq., M.D.,
FREDERICK HALL RICHARDSON, Esq., M.R.C.S.
ARTHUR BEVERLY, Esq.,

to be Trustees for the purpose of organising a Provincial Museum.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

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

In the matter of the Petition of ALFRED FERGUSON, of Taieri Beach, in the Province of Otago, Settler, a Debtor; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

UPON reading the Petition of the said Alfred Ferguson and the affidavit thereto annexed, and upon hearing Mr. Cook of Counsel for the said Petitioner, it is ordered that the Petitioner do, on or before the fourteenth day of August next, or within such extended time as this Court shall grant for that purpose, cede and deliver, convey and assign, unto Thomas Paterson, of Dunedin, Civil Engineer, and James Melville Balfour, also of Dunedin, Marine Engineer, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, respectively, according to the nature and quality thereof, respectively, all the estate and effects of the Petitioner, except certain hereditaments situate respectively in the Waihola and Clarendon Districts, and being Section numbered three (3), Block twenty-six (XXVI.), on the Record Map of the said Waihola District; and Section numbered forty-four (44), Block six (VI.), on the Record Map of the said Clarendon District, and comprised in a lease dated the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, made between Isaac Augustus Avarne of the one part, and the Petitioner of the other part; and except also the wearing apparel of himself and his wife and children, upon trust, for the purpose of selling, disposing of, getting in, and receiving or otherwise realising the same; and, in the first place, paying, satisfying, and discharging all costs, charges, and expenses incurred by order of this Court, or incidental to the execution of the trusts of the conveyance and assignment to be made in pursuance of this Order, and all fees of Court, and all payments to the Insolvent Estates Fund payable under the 39th Section of the said Act, and such other sums of money (if any) as shall be ordered by this Court, and subject thereto for the purpose of justly distributing and administering the clear residue of the said moneys between and amongst, and for the benefit of all the creditors of the said Petitioner at the time of the presentation of his said Petition, and who shall duly prove their debts by affidavit within six calendar months from the date of this Order by way of pro rata distribution, subject to existing legal priorities; and if there shall be any surplus of the said moneys after answering the purposes aforesaid, shall pay such surplus to the said Petitioner. And it is further ordered that the Registrar of this Court at Dunedin, shall make and execute such cession and delivery, conveyance and assignment, in the name and on behalf of the said Petitioner, and that such conveyance and assignment shall contain all requisite powers for enabling the said Thomas Paterson and James Melville Balfour to recover and receive all debts, moneys, goods, chattels, estate, and effects in any way belonging to or due and payable to the said Petitioner.

Dated this third day of July, 1865.

By the Court,

(L.S.)

ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

33s.

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

In the matter of the Petition of THOMAS DICK, of West Taieri, in the Province of Otago, Storekeeper, Debtor; and the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

UPON reading the Petition of the said Thomas Dick and the affidavits thereunto annexed, and upon hearing Mr. Barton of Counsel for the said Petitioner, it is ordered that the Registrar of this Honorable Court, for and on behalf of the said Petitioner, do forthwith convey, assign, and make over all his real and personal estate and effects unto John Reid Mackenzie, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Banker, upon trust, for the collection and conversion into money of the said estate and effects, and the distribution of the net proceeds pro rata, and subject to existing legal priorities (if any) amongst such of the creditors of the said Petitioner as shall duly prove their respective debts by affidavit filed in the Office of the Registrar, at Dunedin, within the space of three calendar months after the date of the registration of the said Deed in this Court; and it is further ordered that the further hearing of this matter do stand adjourned to Friday next, the 11th day of July, 1865.

Dated the 3rd day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

By the Court,

(L.S)

ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

17s.