carried on by the said Alfred James Samuel Headland on his separate account, who will pay and receive all debts owing from and to the said partnership in the regular course of trade.

Witness our hands this 5th day of February, 1868,

ALFRED J. S. HEADLAND,
NEIL M’COWAN.

Witness to the signatures,
J. O’MEAGHER, solicitor,
Oamaru.

3t. 24s.

CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF PORT CHALMERS.

Statement of Cash received and paid from 1st January 1867, to 31st December 1867 :

Dr.

To Cemetery account ....... £ 31 5 0
,, Quarry ............ 23 16 0
,, General Government Fees ... 31 14 6
,, Ratepayers ........ 329 4 0
,, Provincial Government (subsidy) ... 696 2 6
,, Municipal Estate (rent) ...... 9 11 0

£1121 13 0

Cr.

By Cemetery ........ £ 38 7 6
,, Bank of Otago ........ 166 10 10
,, Street cleaning’, &c ....... 41 6 6
,, Lighting and cleaning Town Hall ... 11 10 0
,, Poll clerks at elections ...... 8 14 6
,, Valuators, &c .......... 12 5 0
,, Stationery, advertising, &c .... 33 18 3
,, Weighbridge and house ...... 49 15 0
,, Incidental expenses ....... 32 16 5
,, Law expenses ........ 10 10 0
,, Seats for Flagstaff Hill ..... 5 0 0
,, Salaries ........... 79 19 6
,, Day labor ........... 75 0 0
,, Survey ............ 23 0 0
,, Urinal ............ 17 8 0
,, Interest ........... 16 11 0
,, Balance in Bank ........ 499 0 6

£1121 13 0

(Signed) DANIEL ROLFE, Mayor.
GEORGE L. ASHER, Town Clerk.

We hereby certify that we have examined the above statement of Receipts and Expenditure for year ending December 31, 1867, and find the same correct.

(Signed) WM. ELDER.
JAMES SMITH. } Auditors.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by deed of assignment bearing date the twelfth day of February, 1868, and made between Charles Dansey and Archibald Uldifonso Roxburgh, both of Oamaru, in the Province of Otago, tobacconists, (hereinafter styled “debtors”) of the first part; John Hood, of Oamaru, aforesaid, draper, and Edward De Carle, of Dunedin, in the said Province of Otago, merchant, two of the creditors of the said debtors, (trustees for the purposes therein-after mentioned) of the second part, and the several other persons whose names and seals are thereunto subscribed and affixed, being severally creditors in their own right, or in copartnership, or being agents or attorneys of creditors of the said debtors, of the third part, the said debtors and each of them did grant, convey, assign, and set over unto the said John Hood and Edward De Carle, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, all and singular, the real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever of them the said debtors, or of or to which they or either of them, or any person or persons in trust for them or either of them, is or are possessed or entitled, or hath or have any right or interest whatsoever, unto the said John Hood and Edward De Carle, in trust for the equal benefit of all the creditors of the said debtors. And notice is hereby further given, that the said deed has been filed in the Supreme Court, pursuant to “The Bankruptcy Act, 1867.”

Dated this eighteenth day of February, 1868.

JULIUS AND O’MEAGHER,

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Solicitors for the Trustees,
Oamaru.

MOUNT IDA, 12th Feb., 1868.

WE, the Undersigned, trading as Cordial Manufacturers at Mount Ida, hereby DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP by mutual consent: All debts due to and by the late firm will be received and paid by the undersigned Eliphalet Hall, who will carry on the business as heretofore.

ELIPHALET HALL.
JOHN NAPER.

Witness to both signatures—
Jos. R. BRENNER.

6s.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.—Notice is hereby given, that the partnership which existed between the undersigned George Thomson and Charles Watson Jackson, lately carrying on business as Sheep Farmers at Wakaia Plains, Switzer’s, under the style of Thomson and Jackson, was dissolved by mutual consent on the first day of October, 1867.

GEORGE THOMSON.
CHARLES W. JACKSON.

Witness to the signatures of George Thomson and Charles W. Jackson,—
H. J. M’LEAN,

14s. 2t.

High street, Dunedin.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, February 6, 1868, No. 7.)

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased by Letters-Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to constitute and appoint me, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand: Now, I, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have this day taken the prescribed Oaths before His Honour Alexander James Johnston, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the said Colony, in the absence of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the said Colony, and that I have assumed the said Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand, under and by virtue of Her Majesty’s said Commission.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, 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 fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st February, 1868.

HIS Excellency the governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR DAVID HARVEY, Esq.,