CITY OF DUNEDIN.—APPEALS AGAINST THE CITY ASSESSMENT, YEAR 1868.—It is hereby notified that Thursday, the 9th day of January, 1868, has been fixed as the day for hearing appeals against this assessment.

The appeals will be heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, and a copy of each notice of appeal, as already served upon the City Council, must be delivered by the Appellant to the Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, six clear days before the day of hearing.

J. M. MASSEY,
Town Clerk.

31st December, 1867.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District,
In the matter of Patrick Ryan, of the Horse Shoe Bend, in the Province of Otago, miner, a debtor, and in the matter of the Bankruptcy Act, 1867.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the above named Patrick Ryan, has this day filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District, at Dunedin, a declaration of Insolvency under the provisions of the above mentioned Act.

Dated this third day of January, 1868.

HAGGITT & HAGGITT, Manse-st., Dunedin,
9s.
Solicitors for the above named Patrick Ryan.

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 Court, a declaration of Insolvency, pursuant to the provisions of the above act.

Dated this 7th day of January, 1867.

ROBERT RENNIE,
Hotel-keeper and Farmer, Green Island.

Edward Francis Ward, Solicitor,
Temple Chambers, Dunedin.

6s.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that John M’Garrigle, a prisoner for debt, has filed a declaration of Insolvency in the Supreme Court, at Dunedin.

HENRY SYMTHIES,
Solicitor to the Insolvent.

7th January, 1868.

3s.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District,
In the matter of the Bankruptcy Act, 1867.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that John Groves, late of Portobello District, in the Province of Otago, publican, but now of Dunedin, has this day filed in this Court, at Dunedin, a Declaration of Insolvency, under the provisions of the above Act.

Dated this seventh day of January, 1868.

J. A. J. MACGREGOR,
6s.
Solicitor, Dunedin.

IMPOUNDED on the 3rd January, 1868, by Walter Millar, Esq., one bay mare, branded P near shoulder, for trespassing on his run and paddock, for which five pounds sterling damages are claimed, and in default of being released, will be sold at the Public Pound at Tokomairiro on Friday, the 31st January, at 12 o’clock noon.

JAMES GOODALL,
Poundkeeper, Tokomairiro.

LOST a Bank of New Zealand fixed Deposit Receipt, numbered 13137, dated 3rd October, 1867, for 6 months, for £10.—Marked in body as H1/1. 4s. 2t.

From the New Zealand Gazette, December 21st, No. 69.

G. GREY, GOVERNOR.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” power is given to the Governor of New Zealand, by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates’ Districts, and in any such proclamation to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be constituted: And whereas power is also given by the said Act to the Governor, by proclamation in the said Gazette, to declare that the limit of Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court of any district shall be extended to fifty pounds or to one hundred pounds as he may think fit:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K. C. B., the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in me, do hereby proclaim and constitute the several districts described in the Schedule hereto to be on and from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, Resident Magistrates’ Districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

Otago Gold Fields.

This district is bounded as follows:—Commencing at Fox Peak, thence by the north-eastern watersheds of the Shotover and the Arrow Rivers to Mount Cardrona, thence to the junction Boundary Creek with the Cardrona River, thence by that creek to its source, thence to the Kirtle Burn, and by the Kirtle Burn to its first feeder, thence by that feeder and a line to the source of Park Burn, thence by Park Burn to the Clutha, thence by a line in a north-easterly direction to Mount St. Bathans, thence by a line to the Hawkdun Mountains, thence by the summit of that range to Kyeburn Hill, thence by the summit of the Kakanui Mountains and the Spur leading to the junction of the Deepdell Creek with the Waihemo or Shag River, thence by the watershed between the Taieri and the Waikouaiti Rivers to Silver Peak, thence by Silver stream to where it crosses the road leading to Dunedin, thence by that road to the boundary of the Hundreds, and by the boundary of the Hundreds to the North Branch of the Tokomairiro River, thence by that branch to the Main South Road, thence by that road to its intersection with Lovell’s Creek, thence by that creek to the south-western boundary of run numbered fifty-four, thence by that boundary to a point situated north-east of the sources of the Crook Burn, thence by a south-westerly line to the Crook Burn, thence by the Crook Burn to the Clutha River, thence by that river to its junction with the Black Cleugh Creek, thence by that creek to its source, thence to the summit of the Tapanui Ranges, thence by those ranges to the source of Spylaw Burn, thence by Spylaw Burn to its junction with the Pomahaka River, thence by that river to its junction with the Parasol Creek, thence by that creek to its source, thence by a line to Black Umbrella, thence by the water-shed of the western branch of the Waikaka River to the South boundary of run numbered one hundred and ninety-three, thence to that boundary to the Mataura River, thence by that river to Eyre Peak, thence by the summit of the western and northern watersheds of Lake Wakatipu to the commencing point at Fox Peak.

Oamaru.

This district is bounded towards the North by the southern boundary of the province of Canterbury from a point where a line drawn due North from Cosmos Peak meets that boundary to the mouth of the Waitangi River; thence towards the south-east by the sea to the mouth of the Waihemo Creek; thence on the south by