In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of a meeting of creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a meeting of the creditors of the abovenamed bankrupts, is hereby convened for Monday the seventh September next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to be held at the offices of Messrs. Cargills and McLean, Princes Street, Dunedin. Business, to consider a proposal made by the Bank of Otago (Limited), to pay the creditors five shillings in the pound, in satisfaction of their claims.

Dated at Dunedin, this 25th day of August, 1868.

EDWARD BOWES CARGILL,
Trustee.

7s.

In the matter of a Deed of Arrangement made by Thomas Austin, of Riverton, merchant, a debtor, for the benefit of all his creditors, and in the matter of "The Bankruptcy Act 1867."

NOTICE is hereby given, that application will be made to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District, at Dunedin, on Monday the thirty-first day of August, inst., at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for a declaration of the complete execution of the abovementioned Deed of Arrangement.

Dated this 25th day of June, 1868.

HAGGITT AND HAGGITT,
Solicitors for the said Thomas Austin.

7s.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Monday the 31st day of August instant, has been appointed by His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman, as a public sitting of this Honorable Court for Peter Cartwright, of Hyde, miner, a bankrupt, to pass his last examination and make application for his discharge, under the provisions of "The Bankruptcy Act 1867."

Dated this 25th August, 1868.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD,
Bankrupt's Solicitor.

5s

NOTICE is hereby given, that on the twenty-first day of August, 1868, James Roebuck and George Appleby Applegarth, of Stuart street, Dunedin, coachbuilders, trading as Roebuck, Applegarth and Co., filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Dunedin, a declaration signed by them, and attested by George Elliot Barton, solicitor, that they are unable to meet their engagements with their creditors.

Dated this 22nd day of August, 1868.

JAMES ROEBUCK.
GEORGE APPLEGARTH.

8s

In the matter of the "Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

NOTICE is hereby given, that Henry Houghton, of Stafford street, Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, shipping agent, has this day filed, in this court, at Dunedin, a declaration of Insolvency, in pursuance of the provisions of the above Act.

Dated this nineteenth day of August, 1868.

JAMES SMITH,
Solicitor, High street, Dunedin.

In the matter of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

MICHAEL SYLVESTER DUFFY, of Hyde, in the Province of Otago, New Zealand, a debtor, this day executed, and, on the 27th of August inst., will be filed, in the office, at Dunedin, of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, (Otago and Southland District,) a deed of arrangement of this day's date, in conformity with the provisions of the said Act; and that he intends to apply to His Honor the Judge for a declaration of its complete execution on Monday next, the 31st of August instant, at 10 o'clock.

Dated this 26th day of August, 1868.

JOHN STAMPER,
8s 6d.
Solicitor for the Debtor.

From the New Zealand Gazette, August 6, 1868, No. 46.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that a writ issued for the election of a Member of the House of Representatives, for the Electoral District of Waikouaiti, has been returned with a certificate to the effect that Robert Mitchell, of Woodhead, Hawksbury, freeholder, has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Frederick Basire, Esq., to be Deputy to the Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the district of Port Chalmers, as the same is defined in proclamation of 30th November, 1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of 11th December, 1865.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that in conformity with clause three of "The Otago Municipal Corporations Act, 1865," the name of the following person has been sent to this office by the Town Clerk as having been elected Mayor of Oamaru, viz.:

Samuel Gibbs, Esq.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Thomas George Ducker, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of the Arrow, as the same is defined in proclamation of 30th November, 1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of 11th December, 1865, vice Lowther Broad, Esq., resigned. This appointment to take effect on and from the twentieth day of August, 1868.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Stamp Office,

Wellington, 27th July, 1868.

IT is notified for general information that Mr. I. W. Busch, Postmaster at Naseby, (Mount Ida,) has been appointed Official Distributor of Duties Stamps at that place, as from the 1st of August next.

J. C. RICHMOND.

From the New Zealand Gazette, August 7, 1868, No. 47.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act 1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint the person elected to be Mayor of any city or incorporated town as therein mentioned, to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony, provided that in every such case such appointment shall continue no longer than the mayoralty of such person. And whereas Thomas Birch, of Dowling Street, Dunedin, Esquire, has been elected Mayor for the City of Dunedin: Now therefore, I