PUBLIC NOTICE.—Under Section 1, Regulation VI, of the Otago Gold Fields Rules and Regulations.

Sufficient proof having been shown to me that that portion of the Otago Gold Fields described in the Schedule hereto annexed has been fairly tested, and is either wholly or for the greater part of an inferior character as regards the value of its gold deposits, I hereby give notice that the same may be occupied by holders of miners’ rights in claims of the undernentioned size, namely:—One acre for each holder of a miners’ right, provided that no block claim shall comprise more than six acres altogether.

Given under my hand at Alexandra, this 14th day of September, 1868.

VINCENT PYKE, Warden.

SCHEDULE.

That portion of the Otago Gold Fields bounded on the east at a joint where the Aldinga Gully joins Con-Roy’s Gully; on the north east, the source of Conroy’s Gully; on the south and west, a quarter-of-a-mile from the Centre of Conroy’s Gully.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at DUNEDIN, for the Month of SEPTEMBER, 1868.

At 9.30 A.M. Daily.
Lat. 45° 52′ 11″ S. Long. 170° 31′ 7″ E.
Altitude above Sea, 550 feet.

Barometer (reduced to 32° Fah. and sea level.)
Mean atmospheric pressure for month 30.049 inches
Highest pressure (on 17th) ... 30.570 „
Lowest pressure (on 12th) ... 29.325 „
Range for month ... 1.245 „

Temperature in Shade.
Approx. mean temperature for month 46.2 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 52.9 „
Mean minimum temperature ... 39.6 „
Mean daily range of temperature ... 13.3 „
Highest maximum temperature (on 13th) 60.0 „
Lowest minimum temperature (on 5th) 33.0 „
Extreme range for the month ... 27.0 „
Mean temperature of evaporation for month ... 43.3 „
Solar Radiation on—36
Maximum (on 31st) ... 120 „
Minimum (on 1st) ... 82 „
Mean for month ... 107 „

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation = 100) ... 79.8
Mean elastic force of vapour (in inches) ... 0.247
Mean temp. of dew point (Fah.) ... 40.0
Total rainfall on 9 days ... 1.348
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 28th) ... 0.360 „
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast = 10) ... 5

Wind.
Mean velocity per day for month 118 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 4th) ... 475
Number of days on which the wind blew from each point:—
N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.
5 3 2 2 3 3 4 1 7

REMARKS.

High wind on 3rd from S.W.
Hail fell on 1st.
Fog prevailed on 17th, 18th, and 28th.

NOTE.—The results of all the self-registering instruments were recorded on the dates above given, and therefore occurred during the preceding 24 hours.

HENRY SKEY.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, as hotelkeepers, at Pigroot, under the firm of “Burgess and Creese,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

JOHN BURGESS.
JOHN CREES.

Witness to both signatures—
HENRY HOWORTH,
Solicitor, Dunedin.

The business will in future be carried on by Mr. Burgess alone, who will receive all debts due to, and pay all debts owing by his late firm.

19/6. 3t.

NOTICE is hereby given, that WILLIAM HAY, of Dunedin, bookseller, has this day filed in the office of the Supreme Court, at Dunedin, a declaration of Insolvency, pursuant to “The Bankruptcy Act, 1867.”

Dated this 8th day of October, 1868.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD, Solicitor.
2s 6d.

NOTICE is hereby given, that JOSEPH BEAL, of Dunedin, hotel-keeper, has this day filed a declaration of his insolvency in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Dunedin aforesaid.

Dated this 13th day of October, 1868.

KENYON and MADDOCK,
Princes street, Dunedin,
Solicitors for the said Joseph Beal.
4s 6d.

NOTICE is hereby given, that FREDERICK BARUCH LEWIS, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, boot-warehouseman, has this day filed in the Supreme Court at Dunedin, a declaration of Insolvency.

Dated this 13th day of October, 1868.

J. A. J. M’GREGOR, Solicitor.
3s.

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 MURDOCH, of Blueskin, in the Province of Otago, expressman, has this day filed in this honourable court, at Dunedin, a declaration of Insolvency, pursuant to the provisions of the above Act.

Dated at Dunedin the 9th day of October, 1868.

JAMES SMITH,
High street, Dunedin,
Declarant’s Solicitor.
6s.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of JAMES O’GRADY, of Dunedin, and in the matter of “The Bankruptcy Act 1867.”

NOTICE is hereby given, that the said James O’Grady has this day been adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition, that Tuesday the twentieth day of October instant, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, has been appointed for the first meeting of Creditors, and that the said bankrupt is ordered then and there to surrender.

Dated at Dunedin, this 12th day of October, 1868.

W. H. M’KAY,
Bankrupt’s Solicitor.
7s 6d.

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

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to disband the undermentioned Corps, viz.:

The Dunstan District Rifle Volunteers.

DANIEL POLLEN,
(In the absence of Colonel Haultain).