Sheep Inspector’s Department,

Dunedin, November 7, 1865.

NOTICE is hereby given that I have appointed
Arthur Kennedy, Esq.,
to be a Sub-Inspector of Sheep for the Province of Otago
from the 1st of October, 1865.

George Thomson,
Chief Inspector of Sheep.

THE GENERAL ROAD BOARD meets, for the
dispatch of business, in the Government Offices,
Dunedin, at noon on the first Thursday of every month.
Notice, in writing, of all business intended to be
brought before the Board must be in the hands of the
Clerk three days at least before the day of Meeting.

By order,
John Hardy,
Clerk to the General Road Board.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
subsisting between us the undersigned, Blair Fullarton and Thomas Bonar Neilson, has been
this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts owing
to the said late partnership will be received, and all
its liabilities discharged, by the said T. B. Neilson.

Dated this third day of November, 1865.

T. B. Neilson,
Blair Fullarton.

Witness—A. Oliver.

5s.

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

In the matter of the Petition of James Bruce, of
Oamaru, in the Province of Otago, Contractor, a
Debtor; and in the matter of the Petition of
James Rattray, of Dunedin, in the Province of
Otago aforesaid, Merchant, a Creditor of the said
James Bruce 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 Richmond has appointed Friday, the
twenty-second day of December next, at ten o’clock in
the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin,
for the hearing of the Petition of the above-named
Debtor.

Dated this third day of November, 1865.

Macassey & Turton,
Solicitors for the Petitioner.

11s.

NOTICE.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between the
undersigned Edward Esquilant and Robert Algie, as Stationers and Printers, trading under the
style or firm of “Esquilant and Algie,” Manse-street,
Dunedin, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. The said Edward Esquilant will receive all
moneys due, and will discharge all the liabilities of
the late firm. As witness our hands this eighth day
of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
five.

Edward Esquilant.
Robert Algie.

Witness: Henry P. Monsh.

14s.

[From New Zealand Gazette, No. 37, Sept. 22, [1865.]]

CENSUS OF NEW ZEALAND, 1864.

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

THE following Table, showing approximately the
Increase and Decrease of the Population of
European Descent in New Zealand, from the 1st
January to the 30th June, 1865, is published for
general information.

J. C. Richmond.

Gross Increase in the Half-year ending June 30, 1865.

By Immigration (over Seas)—

By Births—

Total Gross Increase | 7,337 | 5,498 | 12,835 |

Deduct Decrease—

By Emigration (over Seas)—

By Deaths—

Total Gross Decrease | 3,629 | 1,417 | 5,046 |

Net Increase in the Half-year ending June 30, 1865 | 3,708 | 4,081 | 7,789 |

[A few of the Returns requisite to make the foregoing estimate accurate were not received at the time of its compilation. But they related to places most of which are (as respects statistical numbers) comparatively unimportant; and the Returns from those places for the corresponding Quarters of 1864 have been taken into the calculation as applying to 1865 also. The estimate may therefore be regarded as substantially correct.]

The above numbers added to the population of the
Colony, as shown by the late Census, amount to—
Males, 110,288; Females, 69,659; Total, 179,947.
But these Totals are defective with regard to the
month of December, 1864—the Census having been
taken on the night of the first of that month, and the
Returns employed in the preparation of this estimate
being quarterly (not monthly).

An apportionment amongst the several Provinces of
the figures in the above Table would show the following results with respect to increase or decrease during
the half-year ending June 30th—

The attempt to estimate the Population of the
respective Provinces by the introduction into the
calculation of the Arrivals and Departures at the
several Ports—although it has been repeatedly made
in the annual volumes of Statistics—is confessedly
inaccurate.