TENDERS

TENDERS will be received until noon of Saturday, 15th instant, from persons willing to supply Manuka Firewood for the year 1866. For particulars apply to the Provincial Storekeeper.

SUPREME COURT, OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

Insolvent Jurisdiction.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Sitting of the said Court for the despatch of all business arising under the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862," will be holden at the Court House, Dunedin, on Monday, the fifth day of February next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.
Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 22nd December, 1865.

There was a Gazette, No. 400, published on Friday last.

CORRECTIONS.

For "Glenoreby" in the Proclamation in Gazette No. 399, of 27th December, 1865, read "Glenorchy." The said Proclamation, with the word corrected, will appear to-day in full, in the Supplement to this Gazette. For "1865," first page, top line of the Supplement to this Gazette, published to-day, read "1866;" delete also the figures 22, at the top of each page, which will leave 1, 2, 3, and 4, to indicate the respective page of the said Supplement.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of JOHN GARRATT, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Temperance Hotelkeeper, a debtor; and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given, that His Honor Mr. Justice Richmond has appointed Monday, the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the hearing of the above Petition.

Dated at Dunedin this twenty-second day of December, 1865.

HOWORTH, BARTON, AND HOWORTH,
Solicitors for the Petitioners.

GENERAL STORES.

TENDERS accepted for the supply of Stores as may be required by the Provincial Government, during the year 1866:

Ironmongery .................................. Briscoe & Co.
Powder and Fuse ........................ Briscoe & Co.
Leather and Grindery .................. John Switzer
Plumbers’ Material and Work ..... A. & T. Burt

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

West Taieri ...... Forage, James Shand
Teviot ............. Forage, Samuel Brown
Teviot ............. Fuel, John Low
Tokomairiro ... Farriery, J & T. Bryce
Waikouaiti .... Farriery, John Whyte
Lawrence ...... Fuel, Geo. Walker
Lawrence ...... Prisoners’ Rations, William Rice Waitahuna .......... Peter Cook
Arrow .......... Forage, William Scoles
Oamaru ......... Farriery, J. Ogilvie

The acceptance of tenders received, not herein stated, will be made known on the 10th inst.

Provincial Treasury,
Dunedin, January 3, 1866.

PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.

The Partnership between the undersigned as Wholesale Ironmongers and Iron Merchants in Dunedin, under the style or firm of "Baines and Oliver," is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

All debts owing to us are to be paid immediately to our successors—Messrs. Oliver and Ulph.

EDWARD BAINES,
By his Attorney R. Oliver.

RICHARD OLIVER.

Witness: A. D. MACFARLANE.
1st January, 1866.

THE undersigned ROBERT FAULDS WILLIAMSON, hereby make application to Register the Plutus Quartz Mining Company, registered under the provisions of the "Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely:-

1. The name and style of the Company is the Plutus Quartz Mining Company, Registered.

Sir,

Being given to a road, so that the fall might be made comparatively easy and gradual. Five or six miles of heavy work, however, would be necessary.

From the Pass Creek mouth to the ford, there are only two or three points where, on account of the ranges descending steeply to the river’s brink, side cuttings would be required.

From the ford to M’Kellar’s also, there are two or three miles of similar ground which cannot be avoided, and which are obstructed in places by huge masses of rock.

The chief outlay, however, would be in the permanent roadway through the Holyford Valley, as it is all heavily timbered and covered with a thick layer of moss or decomposed vegetable matter. In consequence, a merely formed road would be quite useless. A rough tramway would probably be the cheapest and best form of construction.

The route followed by us between the mouth of the Greenstone and M’Kerrow’s Lake, I estimate at eighty miles in length; and between Von Tunzelmann’s and the same Lake, at ninety-six.

The length of the proposed road between the two former points would probably not exceed sixty miles.

The only obstructions to a good dray road between Von Tunzelmann’s and the lower part of the open valley of the Greenstone, are the ascent to the top of the steep spur, after crossing the Von and the crossing of the gap in the Thomson Ranges. The necessary sidelings might be cut without extravagant outlay.

The cause of our delays was the almost continual rain, and in consequence flooded rivers and creeks; which, if possible, we had to bridge, and if not, wait till they were fordable. These delays necessitated our awaiting supplies of provisions, &c.

Several times I was compelled to put the party on short allowance, notwithstanding which, and other untoward circumstances, none complained of ill health.

We found a man at M’Kerrow’s Lake, who had left the Greenstone about a month before. He had nothing to depend upon for support but his gun and a little powder and shot, and was weak and nearly done up when we came across him. He returned with us.

The time occupied in doing the return journey, with light swags, between the head of Lake M’Kerrow and Von Tunzelmann’s, Wakatipu, was 38 hours.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
FRANCIS HOWDEN,
District Surveyor.