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GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary for Land and Works.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be
notified that he has been pleased to appoint
CHARLES ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Esquire, M.D.,
to be a Medical Officer at Waipori, under the "Vaccination Act, 1863."

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Secretary.
20th December, 1867.

APPLICATION FOR DEPASTURING LEASE
OUTSIDE HUNDREDS.--Notice is hereby
given that the following Application for a Depasturing
Lease has been made to the Waste Land Board, in
accordance with the provisions of the 91st Section of
the Otago Waste Land Act, 1866 --"Any person desiring to
object to the grant of such lease may do so
"by lodging with the Board, within three months
"after the first publication in the Provincial Gazette of
"the said application, a statement in writing of the
"grounds of his objection, and no objection made after
"the said period of three months shall be entertained
"by the Board."

Estimated extent, 16,000 acres.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 19th December, 1867.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at
DUNEDIN, for the Month of NOVEMBER, 1867.
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...29.526 inches
Highest pressure (on 24th) ...30.097 "
Lowest pressure (on 22nd) ...29.002 "
Range for month ...1.095 "

Temperature in Shade.
Approx. mean temperature for month...50.9 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ...58.7 "
Mean minimum temperature ...43.2 "
Mean daily range of temperature ...15.5 "
Highest maxim, temperature (on 6th) ...73.0 "
Lowest minim, temperature (on 25th)...35.0 "
Extreme range for the month ...38.0 "
Mean degree of humidity ]
(Saturation=100)...~Computed from ]75.5 "
4.30 p.m. and 9.30 a.m. ]
Mean elastic force of vapour (Saturation=100)...0.257 inches
Mean temp. of dew point ...41.0 Fah.
Total rainfall on 23 days ...6.024 inches
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 24th)...1.146 "

Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, = 10) ...7

Wind: Mean velocity per day for month...250 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours
(on 29th) ...605

Number of days on which the wind blew from each
point at 9.30 a.m.:
N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.
1 8 3 0 1 7 6 0 3

REMARKS.--High winds occurred from S.W. on 12th,
13th, 20th, 21st, 28th, and 29th; and from S. on 24th.
Lunar halo seen on 5th. Thunderstorm on 6th. Snow
fell on 25th. Hail fell on 6th, 12th, and 20th. The
results noted by the self-registering instruments, where
the dates are given, were recorded at the morning's
observation, and therefore occurred during the preceding
24 hours.

HENRY SKEY.

NOTICE.--The undermentioned overtime goods
will be sold by public auction, at Reynolds'
Bonded Store, on Monday, 30th inst., at 12 noon, if
not previously cleared for home use or exportation :--

B 10 Hhds. Ale.
B 345
237/2 Hhds. Brandy.

THOMAS HILL, Collector.
Customs, Dunedin,
December 24th, 1867.

MUNICIPALITY OF CROMWELL.--I hereby
give notice the Assessment of all Buildings,
Land, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the Municipality of Cromwell, was allowed by the Council on
the 9th day of December instant, and that such assessment may be inspected at my office between the hours
of 11 A.M. and 1 P.M., up to the 30th instant. And I
further give notice that any appeals against the said
assessment must be lodged at my office not later than
noon on the 30th day of December instant.

R. F. BADGER, Town Clerk.
Town Clerk's Office,
Cromwell, 17th Dec. 1867.

In the matter of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1867," and of
the Deed of Arrangement by John Edward James
with his Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Deed of Arrangement dated the seventeenth day of December,
1867, made between the above-named John Edward
James of the one part, and all his Creditors of the other
part, was filed in the Supreme Court Office, Dunedin,
on the following day.

HENRY HOWORTH,
6s Solicitor for the above-named John Edward James.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.
In the matter of the "Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

NOTICE is hereby given, that Peter Rankin, of
Balclutha, in the Province of Otago, tailor and
draper, has this day filed in this Court at Dunedin, a
Deed of Management under the provisions of Part 18
of the above Act, intituled "Arrangement by Deed."
Dated this twenty-first day of December, 1867.

SMITH & DEMPSEY,
7s. Solicitors, High-street, Dunedin.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.
In the matter of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I have this
day filed in this Honorable Court a declaration
of Insolvency, pursuant to the provisions of the above
Act.
Dated at Dunedin this 16th day of December, 1867.

MARTIN BUTLER,
of Hamiltons, in the Province of Otago, gold-miner.
EDWARD FRANCIS WARD,
Solicitor.