the 5th day of August, 1867, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for hearing the above Petition.

Dated at Dunedin this 12th day of July, 1867.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

10s 6d.

HAMILTON UNITED SLUICING COMPANY (REGISTERED).—The Capital of the Company is £5,400, in 360 Shares of £15 each, fully paid up. Extent of Claim, 12 acres.

The following is a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1867 :

DR.
To Balance in Bank at 30th Dec. last ... £3 19 6
,, Received for gold during half-year ... 1,110 11 7
,, Debts due by the Company ...... 333 10 0
£1,448 1 1

CR.
By Dividends paid during half-year ... £270 0 0
,, Wages producing gold ...... 267 4 0
,, Labour in cutting new Race 3 miles in length, now completed ... 20 18 0
,, Sundry expenses ........ 78 13 8
,, Balance in Bank of Otago and Cash on hand ............ 11 5 5
£1,448 1 1

T. B. TURNER, Manager.

12s. 6d.

THE ENTERPRISE WATER RACE COMPANY (REGISTERED). Capital, £4,800. Statement of Liabilities and Assets to the 30th June, 1867, being first Statement for publication since registration.

ASSETS.
To Main Race as per construction ... £3,900 0 0
,, Reservoirs and branch Races ... 900 0 0
£4,800 0 0

LIABILITIES.
By 16 Shares at £300 per Share ... £4,800 0 0

WILLIAM NEWMAN, Manager.

Company’s Office, Mount Ida,
13th July, 1867.

10s

NOTICE.
THE Partnership hitherto subsisting between Samuel Henchliffe and John Mellor, trading together as Storekeepers at Dry Bread and Tinker’s Gullies, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

4th May, 1867.

SAMUEL HENCHLIFFE.
JOHN MELLOR.

Witness : JOHN COLE CHAPPLE.

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(From the New Zealand Gazette, June 27, 1867. No. 36.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT HART, Esq.,

to be Assistant Law Officer to the Government of New Zealand.

This appointment dates from the 6th January, 1865.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN BURNSIDE, Esq.,

to be Deputy Returning Officer for the Districts of Dunedin, Roslyn, and Caversham, for the election of Members of the House of Representatives.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH BARNES BORTON, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Waitahuna, as the same defined in Proclamation of thirtieth November, 1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of eleventh December, 1865, in the room of John Mackay, Esq.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE CROCKETT, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of West Taieri, as described in a Proclamation of 30th day of November, 1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of eleventh December, 1865, in the room of James Fulton, Esq.

This appointment to take effect from the fifteenth day of July, 1867.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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(From the New Zealand Gazette, Friday, July 5, 1867. No. 37.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1867.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

JAMES HECTOR, Esq., M.D.,

Director of the Geological Survey, has been appointed Director of Meteorological Stations in New Zealand, and officers in charge of Stations in the various Provinces, are requested to address their correspondence, in future, to Dr. Hector, at Wellington.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD CROKER, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Gabriel’s, as the same is defined in a proclamation dated 30th November, 1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 48, of the 11th December, 1865, vice J. B. Borton, Esq., resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

and

The SECRETARY to His HONOR the SUPERINTENDENT of OTAGO,

to Frank, free from pre-payment of postage, Letters or Packets sent by them on the Public Service.

JOHN HALL.