PROVINCE OF OTAGO

Superintendent shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time as occasion may require, to delegate to the Executive Government for the time being of such Province, subject or not to any restrictions or limitations, as he may think fit, all or any of such powers as are or may be vested in the Governor, or Governor in Council, and which by any Act or Ordinance now in force, or by any Act passed during the then present Session of Parliament, may be delegated to the Superintendent of a Province, or to any person or persons by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, and in like manner to revoke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the “Executive Council Ordinance 1861,” it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council: And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to the Executive Government of the Province of Otago all such powers within the said Province as are by the “Diseased Cattle Act 1861,” and the “Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act 1865,” vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, and by virtue thereof may be delegated to have and exercise such powers within the said Province, subject to the provisions of “The Governor’s Delegation Act 1867:”

Now, therefore, I, JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province of Otago in this behalf, by this warrant appoint

William Lowrie, Esquire,

to be Inspector of Diseased Cattle, and to perform the duties required by the “Diseased Cattle Act 1861,” at the Port of Dunedin, and the several other ports and places of the said Province of Otago at which cattle may be introduced therein, and I declare that this appointment shall take effect from the eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

Given under my hand at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province of Otago, in the presence of

Julius Vogel, Esquire, and George Duncan, Esquire, two of the members of the Executive Council of the said Province, being also members of the Provincial Council thereof, this twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

(L.S.)

JAMES MACANDREW,

Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command—

JULIUS VOGEL,

GEORGE DUNCAN,

Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.

NOTICE

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that the Harbor Master having reported to him that Samuel Carey, master of the lighter “Trial,” plying in the Harbor of Otago, has committed a breach of the 12th Section of the Harbor Regulations, made by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 10th day of October last, so far as the said lighter has been found overloaded, the license of the said lighter “Trial,” granted under the said Regulations has been cancelled.

JULIUS VOGEL,

Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Dunedin, 20th April, 1868.

GAZETTE.—There was a Gazette published on Friday, 24th April last, No. 539, without a supplement.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that by deed of assignment, bearing date the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, made between William Heywood Dansey, of Oamaru, in the Province of Otago, carrier, of the first part; James Bee, of Oamaru aforesaid, storekeeper, and George Sumpter, of the same place, auctioneer, of the second part; and the several other persons whose names and seals are thereto respectively subscribed and affixed, being severally creditors in their own right or in co-partnership, or being agents or attorneys of creditors of the said William Heywood Dansey, of the third part; the said William Heywood Dansey did, in pursuance of the “Bankruptcy Act 1867,” grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer, and set over all his real and personal estate unto the said James Bee and George Sumpter, in trust, for the equal benefit of the creditors of the said William Heywood Dansey; and notice is hereby further given, that the said deed has been filed in the Supreme Court at Dunedin, pursuant to the said Act.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

JULIUS O’MAHONEY,

17s. 6d.

Solicitor for the Trustees, Oamaru.

SECTION 57, Block VIII, Otepopo District, advertised to be sold by auction on the 5th day of May, is hereby withdrawn from sale.

W. H. CUTTEN,

Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,

Dunedin, 28th April, 1868.

TOWNSHIP OF MATAURA BRIDGE.—The following Allotments in the Township of Mataura Bridge will be offered for sale by public auction, at this Office, on Wednesday, the third day of June next, at 12 o’clock noon:—

Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Block I.

Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, Block II.

Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Block III.

W. H. CUTTEN,

Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,

Dunedin, 28th April, 1868.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862,” and of James Smith, an Insolvent Debtor.

Upon reading the Petition of the said James Smith and the affidavit thereunto annexed, and upon hearing counsel for the said Petitioner, it is ordered that the said Petitioner do, on or before the twenty-second day of February next or within such extended time as the Court may grant for that purpose, cede and deliver convey and assign all his real and personal estate and effects unto Henry Driver and Hugh Fraser, both of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, and Colony of New Zealand, merchants, two of the creditors of the said James Smith, upon trust, for the collection and conversion into money of the said estate to a discharge, and that distribution be made thereof amongst all creditors who shall prove their debts...