PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

MR SPEAKER directs it to be notified that he has appointed
Sergeant-Major SAMUEL MOORE,
of the Otago Police Force, to be Sergeant-at-Arms,
in the room of Sergeant-Major James Grennan, deceased.
Appointment to take effect from the first day of November, 1866.

CHARLES SMITH,
Clerk of Council.

Provincial Council Office,
October 31, 1866.

NOTICE.—The Undersigned has had no Partner
ship in his business as a Contractor (for new contracts), with any person since the 5th day of September, 1866.
Dated 31st October, 1866.

HENRY WILSON.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1861.

ROBERT SEWALLIS WAYNE, now of Great Malvern, in the county of Worcester, late of Carey Parade and Torwood Gardens, Torquay, in the county of Devon, England (where he has resided for the longest period during the last six months preceding the adjudication), previously of Stoneburn Station, Otago, New Zealand, Sheep Farmer, but now out of business, having been adjudged a Bankrupt under a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy, filed in Her Majesty’s Court of Bankruptcy for the Exeter District, on the 23rd day of July, 1866, a Public Sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination and make application for his discharge, will be held before Biggs Andrews, Esquire, the Commissioner of the said Court, on Monday the 1st day of October next, at twelve of the clock at noon precisely, at Queen-street, Exeter, England, the day last aforesaid being the day limited for the said Bankrupt to surrender. At this sitting an Adjournment will be asked for to give time for Creditors to prove their debts.

The First Meeting of Creditors has been duly held, and at the Public Sitting above-mentioned proofs of debts of Creditors who have not proved will be received; and the Bankrupt will be required to surrender himself to the said Court, and to submit himself to be examined, and to make a full disclosure and discovery of all his estate and effects, and to finish his examination.

Notice is hereby also given to all Persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, not to deliver the same but to Mr Theophilus Carrick, Queen-street, Exeter, Official Assignee, whom the Court has appointed, and give notice to Mr E. B. Randall, of 3 Gray’s Inn Place, London, the Solicitor in the Bankruptcy, or his agent, Mr Pitts, solicitor, of Exeter.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, October 15, 1866, No. 55.)

General Post Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1866.

THE following Bye-law and Regulation for the Port of Dunedin, approved of by the Governor in Council, is published for general information.

JOHN HALL.

Bye-law and Regulation made and published by His Honor Thomas Dick, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, and by the Marine Board of New Zealand for the Port of Dunedin, under the powers in that behalf conferred on them by “The Marine Board Act 1863,” repealing Bye-law No. 20 of the Bye-laws and Regulations for the Port of Dunedin, made and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 8th June last, and substituting a new Bye-law in lieu thereof.

20. Licensed Boatmen shall be entitled to demand one shilling for the first quarter of a mile and six-pence for every additional quarter (irrespective of the number of passengers) according to the distance they may be required to go from or to any jetty or landing-place in the Harbor of Otago, and any jetty place or anchorage within said Harbor.

I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of all powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby repeal Clause 20 of the Bye-laws and Regulations for the Port of Dunedin, made and published in the New Zealand Gazette, of eighth day of June last, and do hereby make and publish in lieu thereof the foregoing Bye-law and Regulation for the Port of Dunedin.

Given under my hand this seventh day of September, 1866.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent of Otago.

The Marine Board of New Zealand in virtue of all the powers in anywise the Board in this behalf enabling doth hereby also make and publish the foregoing Bye-law and Regulation.

CHAS. SHARP,
President of the Marine Board.

Wellington,
20th September, 1866.

The foregoing Bye-law and Regulation submitted to and approved of by the Governor in Council this twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

G. GREY,
Governor.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint JAMES MELVILLE BALFOUR, Esq., to be Marine Engineer for the Colony of New Zealand.

JOHN HALL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Marine Board of New Zealand having ceased to exist, the duties hitherto discharged by the Board have devolved upon JAMES MELVILLE BALFOUR, Esq., Marine Engineer for the Colony of New Zealand.

JOHN HALL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint JAMES MELVILLE BALFOUR, Esq., ROBERT JOHNSON, Esq., and JOSEPH NANCARROW, Esq., to be Inspectors of Steam Vessels for the Colony of New Zealand, under the provisions of “The Steam Navigation Act, 1866.”

JOHN HALL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint JOSEPH NANCARROW, Esq., to be Engineer Surveyor for the Colony of New Zealand, under the provisions of “The Steam Navigation Act, 1866.”

JOHN HALL.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1866.

THE undermentioned Corps has been admitted into the 1st Battalion, Otago Rifle Volunteers, viz:— The “High School Cadet Corps.”

T. M. HAULTIN,
Captain.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Printer to the said Provincial Government for the time being.