the said Bankrupt is appointed to be held at the same place and time.

Dated at Dunedin, this thirtieth day of September, 1868.

JAMES SMITH,
High-street, Dunedin,
Solicitor for the said Petitioner.

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NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN ROBINSON of Dunedin, hotel-keeper, was this day adjudicated a Bankrupt, and that Tuesday, the 13th day of October instant, has been appointed for the first meeting of Creditors, and that the Bankrupt is required then and there to surrender.

Dated 5th October, 1868.

W. WILFRID WILSON,
Solicitor.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.—Notice is hereby given that by Deed of Assignment bearing date the first day of October, 1868, made between JOSEPH WADDELL, of Oamaru, in the Province of Otago, saddler, of the first part; HUGH FRASER, of Dunedin, in the said Province, saddler, and GEORGE SUMPTER, of Oamaru aforesaid, land agent, two of the creditors of the said Joseph Waddell, (Trustees for the purposes therein mentioned) of the second part; and the several other persons whose names and seals were thereunto 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 Joseph Waddell, of the third part; the said Joseph Waddell did grant, convey, bargain, sell, assign, and set over unto the said Hugh Fraser and George Sumpter, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, All and singular the real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever of him, the said Joseph Waddell, in trust for the equal benefit of all his creditors: And notice is hereby further given that the said Deed has been filed in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, at Dunedin, pursuant to the provisions of "The Bankruptcy Act 1867."

Dated this 6th day of October, 1868.

JULIUS AND O’MEAGHER,
Solicitors for the Trustees, Thames-st.,
Oamaru.

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From the New Zealand Gazette, September 24, 1868, No. 55.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Act 1860," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to divide the Colony into judicial districts for the purposes of the said Act, and the limits of such districts from time to time to alter as occasion may require, and that the Governor in Council shall assign every such district to a Judge or Judges of the Court, who shall have within the same all the powers and jurisdiction by the said Act given to the Court: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council in pursuance of the powers in that behalf conferred by the said Act, did constitute the judicial district called "The Otago and Southland District": And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, did assign "The Otago and Southland District" aforesaid to Christopher William Richmond, Esquire, and Henry Samuel Chapman, Esquire, Judges of the said Court: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, did assign the judicial districts called "The Westland and Nelson District" to the said Christopher William Richmond, Esquire: And whereas the said Henry Samuel Chapman, Esquire, having obtained leave of absence, is about to leave the said Colony for a time: And whereas by an Order in Council made pursuant to "The Supreme Court Judges Act 1858," Charles Dudley Robert Ward, Esquire, has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court, from and after the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, to hold office during His Excellency’s pleasure: Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, proclaim and declare that I assign the judicial district of the Supreme Court, called

THE OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT,

to Charles Dudley Robert Ward, Esquire, a Judge of the said Court.

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; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD,
Approved in Council;
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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 James Hazlett, Esquire, has been elected Mayor of the Incorporated Town of Clyde:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf, do hereby appoint the said

JAMES HAZLETT, Esq.,

to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

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 twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1868.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

VINCENT PYKE, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Dunstan, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 20th January, 1868, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 5, of January 23rd, 1868; vice Lowther Broad, Esquire, resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.