masterly direction along the boundary of the Hundreds to the starting point.

Also, all that area in the Province of Otago, comprising two thousand five hundred (2,500) acres more or less, situate in the south-eastern district, being part of Run numbered 178, as delineated on the map deposited in the Survey Office, Dunedin: bounded by a line commencing at a point seven hundred (700) links; thence north-east from the Saddle on the Main Interior Road, and extending due south twenty-three thousand two hundred (23,200) links; thence by a line in an easterly direction five thousand two hundred (5,200) links, to a point one thousand (1,000) links distant from the Clutha river; thence by a line in a northerly direction parallel to, and one thousand (1,000) links distant from, the Clutha river, thirty-six thousand (36,000) links, be the same more or less; thence by a line in a westerly direction three thousand (3,000) links, to the starting point.

Alex. Willis,

Clerk to the Executive Council of the Province of Otago.

TOWNSHIP OF TAPANUI. (GLENKENICH)

Notice is hereby given that the allotments in the Township of Tapanui will be sold by public auction at the school-house, Tapanui, on Tuesday, the 10th day of November, 1868, at 12 o’clock noon. Upset price, £5 per allotment.

Sections Nos. 9 to 14, Block I

Sections Nos. 5 to 12, Block II

Sections Nos. 8 to 12, Block III

Sections Nos. 8 to 12, Block IV

Sections Nos. 8 to 12, Block VI

Sections Nos. 6 and 7, Block VII

Sections Nos. 1 to 14, Block VIII

Sections Nos. 1 to 17, Block IX

Sections Nos. 1 to 12, Block X

Sections Nos. 1 to 5, Block XI

Sections Nos. 1 to 5, Block XII

Sections Nos. 1 to 6, Block XIII

Sections Nos. 1 to 8, Block XIV

Sections Nos. 1 to 6, Block XV

Sections Nos. 1 to 6, Block XVI

Those Sections, upon which buildings or other improvements have been made, will be put up for sale at the upset price of £5, with the valuation for the buildings added.

W. H. Cutten,

Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,

Dunedin, 2nd October, 1868.

Secretary of Land and Works Office,

Dunedin, 5th October, 1868.

In conformity with the 29th section of “The Gold Fields Act 1866” it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a Lease for Gold Mining purposes of Crown Lands to the undermentioned,

William Grayson & Co.,

for eight acres of land at Clark’s Diggings, Mt. Benger District.

George Duncan,

Secretary for Land and Works.

Secretary of Land and Works Office,

Dunedin, 5th October, 1868.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Application made by Henry Lord and Others to withdraw their Mining Lease Application for one acre of land, Victoria Gully, Munro’s Gully, has been sanctioned by the Government.

George Duncan,

Secretary for Land and Works.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN MATHEWS, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, wheelwright, has this day filed in this Honorable Court a Declaration of Insolvency, pursuant to the provisions of the above Act.

Dated at Dunedin, this 5th day of October, 1868.

William Henry M’Kay,

Declarant’s Solicitor, Dunedin.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Deed of Arrangement, made by William Royse, William Bell Mudie, and Matthew Robertson Miller, carrying on business in co-partnership together as Commission Agents at Oamaru, under the firm of “Royse, Mudie and Miller,” with their creditors, in accordance with the provisions of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867,” has this day been filed in the office of the Registrar of the said Court.

Dated this 6th day of October, 1868.

Kenyon and Maddock,

Dunedin;

Agents for Julius and O’Meagher, Oamaru, Solicitors for the said William Royse, William Bell Mudie, and Matthew Robertson Miller.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

NOTICE is hereby given that Monday the twelfth day of October instant, has been appointed by His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman as a public sitting of this Honorable Court for Gerit Alexander Chalmers, of Moa Flat Station, Miller’s Flat, in the Province of Otago, sheep farmer, a Bankrupt, to pass his last examination and make application for his discharge, under the provisions of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

Dated this 29th day of September, 1868.

George Cook,

Dunedin, Solicitor for the Bankrupt.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of JAMES DE MARS, a Bankrupt; and in the matter of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

NOTICE is hereby given that Monday, the 26th day of October, 1868, at the Supreme Court House Dunedin, has been appointed for the last examination of the said Bankrupt, when he will apply for his order of discharge.

Dated at Dunedin, this 5th day of October, 1868.

William Henry M’Kay,

Bankrupt’s Solicitor, Dunedin.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of THOMAS STEVEN EVANS, late of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Official Liquidator for the Colony of New Zealand of the Commercial Bank of New Zealand, Limited, but at present absent from Dunedin aforesaid, praying for an adjudication of Bankruptcy against STEPHEN STAMP HUTCHISON, of Dunedin aforesaid, gas engineer.

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named Stephen Stamp Hutchison has this day been adjudicated a Bankrupt, and that he is required to surrender at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, on Monday, the twelfth day of October next, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon: and notice is hereby further given that the first meeting of the Creditors of the said Bankrupt...