Dunedin, 6th February, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that

John Hardy, Esquire,

has ceased to be Commissioner of Roads and their Deviations.

Frederick J. Moss,
Secretary for Public Works.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 5th February, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to appoint

Constable Michael Quirke, No. 493,

to be Gaoler at Oamaru, vice Black.

H. J. Miller,
Provincial Secretary.

ACCEPTED TENDER.— Waikouaiti to Palmerston.— Contract No. 113 — Formation of Road through Block 2, Hawksbury District. Hastie and Wilson, £610 7s.

Frederick J. Moss,
Secretary for Public Works.
5th February, 1866.

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

In the matter of the Petition of Robert Muir, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, New Zealand, Contractor; and in the matter of the Petition of Robert Dunlop, of Dunedin aforesaid, Grocer, a creditor of the said Robert Muir 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 appointed Monday, the nineteenth day of March next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the hearing of the above petition.

Dated this second day of February, 1866.

Harris, Macassey, and Turton,
Solicitors for the Petitioner.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned William Luke and Barnard Isaacs, as Chemists and Druggists, carrying on business at Dunedin and Oamaru, under the style of “W. Luke and Co.,” was this day dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated this first day of February, 1866.

William Luke.

Witness— H. S. Fish, Jun.

Barnard Isaacs.

5s. 6d.

7. The names and several residences of the shareholder and the number of shares held by each at this date are as follows:—

450 (four hundred and fifty)

Dated this 18th day of January, 1866.

William Henry Line,
Manager.

Witness to the Signature—
Charles Worthington,
Justice of the Peace.

I, the Undersigned, William Henry Line, hereby make application to register the “Canada Quartz Mining Company, Registered,” under the provisions of the “Mining Companies’ Limited Liability Act, 1860,” 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 of the Company is the “Canada Quartz Mining Company, Registered.”
2. The place of operations is at Canada Reef, Table Hill District.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is four thousand five hundred pounds, in four hundred and fifty shares of ten pounds each.
4. The amount already paid up is two thousand four hundred pounds.
5. The name of the Manager is William Henry Line.
6. The Office of the Company is at Gillies and Street’s office, Princes-street, Dunedin.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that

James Rolland, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and that His Excellency accepted such resignation on the 24th instant.

James Paterson,
For the Colonial Secretary.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

Thomas Robertson, Esq.,

Port Chalmers, of the Offices of Warden, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Marine Board, and also of the Office of Inspector of Steam Vessels.

E. W. Stafford.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Daniel Campbell, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printer to said Provincial Government for the time being.