POUNDKEEPER APPOINTED AT TOKOMAIRIRO.

NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of the powers vested in me by the "Impounding Ordinance, 1862," I have appointed

JAMES PATERSON MUNDELL,
of Tokomairiro, to be keeper of the Public Pound, situate on section numbered 10 of block XXXVII, South Tokomairiro District, in the Province of Otago.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 7th November, 1866.

FRANKTON CEMETERY.—MANAGER.—His Honor...

The Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed MR. MATHEW DWYER to be a Manager of Frankton Cemetery. Appointment to date from 22nd October last.

H. J. MILLER,
Provincial Secretary.

5th November, 1866.

Native Land Office, Auckland,
October 26, 1866.

IN addition to those already Gazetted, the undermentioned Gentleman has received a License to Survey Land, under the "Native Lands Act, 1865,"

DONALD ARCHIBALD M’LEOD, Esq.

F. D. FENTON,
Chief Judge.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at Dunedin, for the month of October, 1866.

Lat. 45° 52’ 11” S.; Long. 170° 31’ 7” E.; Altitude above sea, 550 feet.

BAROMETER, REDUCED TO 32° FAH. AND SEA LEVEL.

Mean atmospheric pressure for month: 29.869 inches
Highest pressure (on 6th): 30.344 „
Lowest pressure (on 11th): 29.205 „
Range for month: 1.139 „

TEMPERATURE IN SHADE.

Approximate mean temperature for month: 52.6° Fah.
Mean maximum temperature: 60.6 „
Mean minimum temperature: 44.6 „
Mean daily range of temperature: 16.0 „
Highest maximum temperature (20th): 79.0 „
Lowest minimum temperature (4th): 38.0 „
Extreme range for the month: 41.0 „

SOLAR RADIATION.

Maximum (on 20th): 99.0
Minimum (on 3rd): 56.0
Mean for month: 81.0

TERRESTRIAL RADIATION.

Maximum (on 11th): 56.0
Minimum (on 4th): 32.0
Mean for month: 40.0

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation=100) computed from the observations: 72.3
Mean elastic force of vapour: 0.30 inches
Mean temperature of the dew point: 44.4° Fah.

Total rainfall on 14 days: 1.324 inches
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 3rd): 0.250 „
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast = 10): 5

WIND.

Mean velocity per day for month: 113 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 12th): 335 „
Number of days on which the wind blew from each point at 9.30 a.m.:— N., 0; N.E., 4; E., 2; S.E., 1; S., 3; S.W., 3; W., 3; N.W., 2; calm, 13.

REMARKS.

Thunder storms occurred on 24th, 25th, and 26th.
Fog prevailed on 24th, 25th, and 26th.

HENRY SKEY.

99th VICTORIÆ, No. 26. SCHEDULE A.

I, the undersigned, PETER WALSH, hereby make application to register "The Suspension Water Race 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 Suspension Water Race Company, Registered."

2. The place of operations is at Black’s No. 1 Diggings.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is six thousand pounds in three hundred shares of twenty pounds each.

4. The amount already paid up is four thousand pounds.

5. The name of the manager is Peter Walsh.

6. The office of the Company is at Black’s No. 1.

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

Dated this eleventh day of September, 1866.

PETER WALSH,
Manager.

NOTICE.

IN pursuance of an order of His Honor Mr. Justice Richmond, dated this 6th day of November, 1866, made under Section VII of the "Trustees Relief Act, 1862," notice is hereby given that all Creditors and others who may have claims against the estate of Thomas Russell, sometime of the Molyneux, in the Province of Otago, and afterwards of Dunedin, in the same Province, deceased, are directed to send in their claims before the first day of March next to Henry Clapcott, Esquire, (to the care of the undersigned) Executor of the said deceased’s will: And notice is further given, that on or after the said last-mentioned date, the said Executor will proceed to distribute the assets of the said testator’s estate amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which such executor shall then have notice in manner provided by the said Section.

Dated this tenth day of November, 1866.

PHRENDERGAST, KENYON, & MADDOCK,
of Princes-street, Dunedin,
Solicitors for the Executor.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between me, the undersigned William Justice and John Fleming, of the North-east Valley District, Farmers, was dissolved by me, on the sixth day of April last.

Dated at Dunedin, the seventh day of November, 1866.

WILLIAM JUSTICE.

Witness—John Hyde Harris,
Solicitor, Dunedin.