PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

WE, the Undersigned, hereby give notice that the Partnership hitherto existing between us at Oamaru, under the style or firm of "F. Pinkerton and Co.," has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The Newspaper, Printing, and Publishing portion of the business was sold on the 23d of August, 1866, to an incorporated Company, under the style of "FRANK PINKERTON & CO., (Limited)" and the Stationery and Bookselling portion of the said business was sold on the 6th September to the Undersigned, R. L. LIVINGSTON, who will receive all monies owing to, and pay all monies owing by, the late firm.

Dated at Oamaru, this fifth day of November, 1866.

FRANK PINKERTON,
J. SMEALL,
R. L. LIVINGSTON.

Witness to the signatures—W. H. RONAYNE.

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

In the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Acts," and in the matter of the several Petitions of ALBERT BARNES, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Butcher; JOHN STANLEY WILLIS, of Dunedin aforesaid, Scenic Artist; ALLAN HENDERSON, of Dunedin aforesaid, Builder; WILLIAM BARNETT, of Dunedin aforesaid, Auctioneer; FRANCIS STUART O’BRIEN, of Dunedin aforesaid, Comedian; and JOHN MARSHALL, of Dunedin aforesaid, Builder.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has appointed the 15th day of December next, at ten a.m., at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for hearing the above Petitions.

Dated this 15th day of November, 1866.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD,
Solicitor for the Bankrupts.

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

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the "Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861," passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, provision was made for raising a loan of fifty thousand pounds for the public service of the said Province and for liquidation of the public debt.

And whereas by the "Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861-2," provision was made for the appointment by the Governor of trustees for receiving such sums as by the said Ordinance are required to be paid to them.

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Ordinance it is further provided that every sum so paid should be invested on the security of debentures issued by the General Government, or otherwise, as His Excellency the Governor and Superintendent should direct.

And whereas by the "Otago Loan Ordinance, 1869," provision was made for raising a loan of five hundred thousand pounds for the public service of the Province of Otago, and providing a sinking fund for the liquidation thereof.

And whereas by the said Ordinance it was further provided that every sum so paid should be invested in the security of debentures issued by the General Government, or otherwise, as His Excellency the Governor and the Superintendent should direct.

And whereas Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode, of Dunedin, and John Jones, of Waikouaiti, have been duly appointed trustees under and by virtue of the powers in the said respective Ordinances in that behalf contained.

And whereas the said trustees have received, and now hold, for the purposes of the said sinking funds, by the said respective Ordinances provided for certain sums as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say—for the purposes of the "Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861," and the "Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861-2," the sum of seven thousand and twenty-three pounds and ten shillings.

And whereas it is expedient that the sum of seven thousand and twenty-three pounds and ten shillings, and other sum or sums that may now or hereafter be so held by the said trustees should be invested on the security of debentures issued by the Government of the Province of Otago, pursuant to request from His Honor the Superintendent of the said Province of Otago.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise of the power vested in him by the said recited Ordinances, doth hereby order and direct that the said sum of seven thousand and twenty-three pounds and ten shillings, and any other sum which may now or hereafter be so held by the said trustees, shall be invested on the security of debentures issued by the Government of the said Province of Otago.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned change, viz.:—"The Clyde Company, Otago Rifle Volunteers," to be "The Dunstan District Rifle Volunteers."

T. M. HAULTAIN.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned appointments, viz.:—

In the Wakari Rangers Volunteers.

William R. Robertson to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 24th June, 1866.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch)
Wellington, 11th October, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM ANDERSON LOWE,
of Manuherikia,

MICHAEL SHERLOCK GLEESON,
of Hampden,

DONALD REID,
of Taieri,

JOHN CAMPBELL GILCHRIST,
of Oamaru,

JEAN DESIRE FERRAND,
of Clyde,

JAMES WILLIAM ROBERTSON,
of Dunstan,

all in the Province of Otago,

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.