BALCLUTHA CEMETERY MANAGERS.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed

Mr. James Sanderson
Mr. Robert Houlison
Mr. John Barr

to be managers of Balclutha Cemetery Reserve.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Secretary.

20th May, 1868.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that THOMAS JOHN HILL, of Dunedin, master mariner, has been this fifth day of May, 1868, adjudicated a bankrupt. A meeting of the bankrupt’s creditors is appointed to be held at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, on Friday, the 22nd day of May, 1868, at the hour of 10 in the forenoon.

HENRY SMYTHIES,
Bankrupt’s Solicitor.

3s 6d.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that OLIVER LUCAS, of Dunedin, carpenter, has been this fifth day of May, 1868, adjudicated a bankrupt. A meeting of the bankrupt’s creditors is appointed to be held at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, on Friday, 22nd day of May, 1868, at the hour of 10 in the forenoon.

HENRY SMYTHIES,
Bankrupt’s Solicitor.

3s 6d.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.
In Bankruptcy.
In the matter of ALEXANDER MUIRHEAD, a bankrupt, and in the matter of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Monday next, the 25th instant, has been appointed by His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman, as a public sitting of this Honorable Court for the said bankrupt to pass his last examination: And the said bankrupt will then make application for his final discharge, pursuant to the above-mentioned Act.

Dated this 19th day of May, 1868.

HENRY HOWORTH,
Solicitor for the said Bankrupt.

8s.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.
In Bankruptcy.
In the matter of EDWIN PHILP, a bankrupt, and in the matter of “The Bankruptcy Act, 1867.”

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Monday next, the 25th inst., has been appointed by His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman, as a public sitting of this Honorable Court for the said bankrupt to pass his last examination: And the said bankrupt will then make application for his final discharge, pursuant to the above-mentioned Act.

Dated this 19th day of May, 1868.

HENRY HOWORTH,
Solicitor for the said Bankrupt.

8s.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.
In the matter of a Deed of Arrangement, made by WILLIAM LOWDER LEES, and JOHN CROWTHER, both of Kakanui, in the Province of Otago, carrying on business as Woolwashers, under the style or firm of “Lees and Crowther,” for the benefit of all their Creditors, and in the matter of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, that a Deed bearing date, and executed upon the 19th day of May, 1868, made between the said William Lowder Lees, and John Crowther, of the one part, and the several creditors of the said William Lowder Lees, and John Crowther, of the other part, (whereby the said William Lowder Lees, and John Crowther, for themselves, their heirs, executors, and administrators, covenanted with the said several creditors respectively, and their respective executors and administrators, to pay to the said several creditors a composition upon their respective debts in manner in the said deed mentioned,) has this day been filed in the office of the Supreme Court, Dunedin. And notice is also given, that the said deed is intended to operate and take effect as a Deed of Arrangement or Composition, executed in pursuance of, and in conformity with, the provisions of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

Dated at Dunedin, this twentieth day of May, 1868.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Princes street, Dunedin,
Solicitor for the said William Lowder Lees, and John Crowther.

20s.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.
In the matter of the Deed of Arrangement, dated the 26th of February last, executed by JAMES URE RUSSELL, of Dunedin, Master Mariner, a debtor, providing for the distribution of his property among his creditors, under the provisions of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, the 25th day of May instant, at 11 o’clock in the morning, or so soon thereafter as he can be heard, at the Court House in Dunedin aforesaid, the debtor intends making application to this Honorable Court for a declaration of the complete execution of the said deed.

Dated this 20th day of May, 1868.

JOHN STAMPER,
Temple Chambers, Princes street, Dunedin,
Solicitor for the debtor.

8s.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Partnership between Goodwin and Barlow, trading as Watchmakers and Jewellers, at Clyde, in the Province of Otago, N.Z., was this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts owing from and to the said partnership, will be paid and received by Robert Barlow, whose receipt will be sufficient discharge.

As witness our hands this fourteenth day of May, 1868.

CHARLES GOODWIN.
ROBERT BARLOW.

Witness to the Signatures of Goodwin and Barlow—CHARLES GIEL.

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

[CIRCULAR No. 271.]

INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS IN BRITISH POSSESSIONS ABROAD.

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1867.

This Act will come into operation on the first day of January, 1868. A copy is appended for the information and guidance of Officers in British possessions abroad.

Further copies will be forwarded on application.

THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant Secretary, Marine Department.

Board of Trade, October, 1867.

(See General Government Gazette, No. 18, of 3rd April 1868)

CORRECTION.—The Gazette of May 13 ought to have been numbered 543, instead of 542.

GAZETTE.—There was a Special Gazette published on Wednesday, 13th instant.