In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of James Rae, of Mount Ida, in the Province of Otago, out of business; and in the matter of the Petition of John McCurdy, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago aforesaid, coal and firewood dealer, and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act 1862," the "Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act 1865," and the "Debtors and Creditors Acts Amendment Act, 1866."

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman has appointed Monday the thirtieth day of September next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House Dunedin, for hearing the above Petitions.

Dated at Dunedin the ninth day of August, 1867.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD,
Petitioners’ Solicitor.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Gold Mining Lease granted to the Barracouta Quartz Mining Company (Registered) for 16a. 1r. 34p. at Arrowtown, in the Province of Otago, for Gold Mining purposes, has been cancelled, and that the said Land is open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

By order,
VINCENT PYKE, Secretary.
Gold Fields Department, Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 9th August, 1867.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Gold Mining Lease granted to the "Columbian Gold Mining Company" (Registered) for 15a. 2r. 7p. of Land situate at Arrowtown in the Province of Otago, for Gold Mining purposes, has been cancelled, and that the said Land is open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

By order,
VINCENT PYKE, Secretary.
Gold Fields Department, Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 10th August, 1867.

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NOTICE is hereby given, that the Gold Mining Lease granted to "The New Orleans Quartz Mining Company" (Registered), for 16a. 2r. 4p. of Land situate at Arrowtown, in the Province of Otago, for Gold Mining purposes, has been cancelled, and that the said Land is open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

By order,
VINCENT PYKE, Secretary.
Gold Fields Department, Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 10th August, 1867.

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NOTICE is hereby given, that the Gold Mining Lease granted to John Langmuir, William Fuller, Daniel Murphy, and Charles Henry Creeth, for 16a. 2r. 4p. of Land situate at Hindon, in the Province of Otago, for Gold Mining purposes, has been cancelled, and that the said Land is open for occupation by holders of Mining Rights.

By order,
VINCENT PYKE, Secretary.
Gold Fields Department, Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 10th August, 1867.

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NOTICE is hereby given, that the Gold Mining Lease granted to Charles Michael Ware, William Langmuir, William Fuller, and Michael Murphy, for 16a. 2r. 4p. of Land situate at Hindon, in the Province of Otago, has been cancelled, and that the said Land is open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

By order,
VINCENT PYKE, Secretary.
Gold Fields Department, Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 9th August, 1867.

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[From the New Zealand Gazette, August 7, No. 48.]

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858," it is provided that there shall be within the Colony, Courts of Record to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and from time to time, by notification in the New Zealand Gazette, to fix the times and places within the district at which every such Court shall be held.

And whereas by a proclamation bearing date the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, a district was constituted in the Province of Otago within which a District Court should be held under the said "District Courts Act, 1858," to be designated "The District Court of the Otago Gold Fields:" And whereas by a Warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, bearing date the tenth day of January last past, certain times and places were fixed and appointed for holding sittings of the said Court; and whereas by a proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth day of April last past, certain additional sittings of the said Court were appointed to be held, and whereas it is expedient that there should be further sittings of the said Court within the said Province:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority in me vested for this purpose fix and appoint that sittings of the said District Court, additional to those already appointed, shall be held as follows:—

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Lawrence: On the second Tuesday in October, and the second Tuesday in December;

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Naseby: On the second Wednesday in November, and the second Wednesday in January;

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Clyde: On the Monday next after the second Wednesday in November, and the Monday next after the second Wednesday in January;

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown: On the Monday second after the second Wednesday in November, and the Monday second after the second Wednesday in January; in every year, or as soon as conveniently may be after such days respectively.

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, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted, that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare by proclamation his disallowance of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the...