the co-partnership estate and effects of them the said debtors, in trust for the equal benefit of all the creditors of the said debtors.

And notice is hereby given that the said Deed was on Thursday, the twenty-seventh day of February, 1868, filed in the Supreme Court pursuant to the Bankruptcy Act, 1867.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of February, 1868.

JULIUS AND O’MEAGHER,
12s. 6d.
Solicitors to the Trustees, Oamaru.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman has fixed the sixteenth day of March next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the final examination of Patrick Johnston, a Bankrupt. Application will then be made for the bankrupt’s discharge.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of February, 1868.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
6s.
Solicitor for Patrick Johnston.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, February 17. No. 10.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 11th February, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Henry Poyson Morse, to be Acting Clerk to the Bench at Dunedin, in the District of Dunedin, from the 1st March proximo, under “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867.”

E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1868.

IN virtue of the powers delegated to the Postmaster General by His Excellency the Governor, the following appointments have been made in the Postal Service of the Colony.

(By Order)
G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

Otago.

John C. Cumming, Manuherikia, from 1st October, 1867.
William Pyle, St. Bathans, from 7th November, 1867.
W. C. Towsey, Waikouaiti, from 1st November, 1867.
Bernard O’Neill, Hyde.
George Kennedy, Omarama.
William Shaw, Bluespur, from 1st January, 1868.
John Ross, McRae’s, from 1st January, 1868.
W. G. Luks, Waihemo, from 1st January, 1868.
George Starkey, Nevis, from 1st December, 1867.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, February 28, No. 12.)

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise of the power vested in me by “The Savings Bank Act, 1858,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby nominate and appoint the persons hereinafter named to be Trustees of the Dunedin Savings Bank, namely:—

LATZAM OSBORNE BEAL,
THOMAS HILL,
HENRY DRIVER,
WILLIAM DICK MUIRSON, and
FREDERICK PANTIN, Esquires.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. RICHARDSON.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint William Weaver, Esq., to be Telegraph Engineer for the Colony of New Zealand, from 1st March, 1868.

T. M. HAULTAIN,
(in the absence of Mr. Hall).

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Alfred Sheath, Esq., to be District Inspector of Telegraphs for the Northern District of the Colony of New Zealand, from 1st March, 1868.

T. M. HAULTAIN,
(in the absence of Mr. Hall).

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned appointments, viz.:—

In the Waikari Rangers Volunteers.

Louis Marshall to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 30th December, 1867. Vice Tough, whose commission has lapsed, having left the Colony without leave.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

SUBSCRIPTIONS will be at the rate of £1 per annum or 5s. per quarter, payable in advance to the Publisher. Single copies of the Gazette not to exceed 6d. Subscriptions may commence at any time, but must terminate not later than 31st December, 1868.

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS will be charged at the rate of 6d. per line... Late Advertisements and table matter, 1s. per line, first insertion.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned Corps, viz.:—

The Waikouaiti Rifle Volunteers.

Date of acceptance, 18th January, 1868.

T. M. HAULTAIN.