and district. Boundaries: both sides sections twenty-three, twenty-four, and twenty-five, block one, North Harbor and Blueskin.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

(L.S.)

EDWARD J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command—GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary for Land and Works.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed Foot-Constable JOHN MCMAHON, No. 34, to be Gaoler at Switzer’s.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Treasurer.

26th October, 1868.

Provincial Treasury,
Dunedin, 16th October, 1868.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has been pleased to appoint Mounted Sergeant CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH NADEN, to be Deputy Registrar of Brands for the District of Otago, as described in the Order in Council of 5th July, 1864, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the 11 and 12 Sections of the "Branding Ordinance 1862."

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Secretary.

REGULATIONS for the Hundred of Otepopo, for the year 1868:-

I. License-Holders shall be allowed to depasture one (1) head of great Cattle for every twenty-five (25) acres of land occupied or owned by them within the Hundred.

II. License-Holders shall be allowed to depasture, free of assessment, one (1) head of great Cattle for every seven (7) acres of unfenced purchased Land belonging to or leased by them within the Hundred.

III. No small Cattle shall be allowed to depasture at large within the Hundred without the consent of the Wardens in writing.

IV. The assessment for great Cattle shall be three shillings (3s.) per head, and for small Cattle, seven pence (7d.) per head.

WILLIAM MARSHALL.
E. F. DICH.
Otepopo, September 19, 1868.

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

In the matter of ANDREW M’GINNELL BROWN, of Mount Ida, in the Province of Otago, goldminer, a bankrupt, and in the matter of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

NOTICE is hereby given, that the above-named Andrew M’Ginnell Brown has, upon the petition of the Bank of New Zealand, been this day adjudicated a bankrupt, and that the first meeting of creditors of the bankrupt will be held at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the third day of November next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which time and place the said Andrew M’Ginnell Brown is required, in his own proper person, to surrender.

Dated this twenty-third day of October, 1868.

GIBSON K. TURTON,
Solicitor for the Bank of New Zealand.

9s.

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

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

NOTICE is hereby given, that this Honorable Court hath this day adjudged JAMES SMITH, of West Hawksbury, hotelkeeper, a bankrupt; that Tuesday the 3rd day of November, 1868, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Resident Magistrate’s Court House, Hawksbury, has been appointed for the first meeting of his creditors, and that the bankrupt is ordered then and there to surrender.

Dated this 26th October, 1868.

6/6.

FRANCIS WARD,
Solicitor for Bankrupt.

NOTICE is hereby given, that CHARLES COOPER, of Dunedin, land agent, 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 27th October, 1868.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD, Solicitor.

NOTICE is hereby given, that DAVID LILBURN, of Port Chalmers, draper, has this day filed in the Supreme Court, at Dunedin, a declaration of Insolvency, under "The Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

Dated this 27th October, 1868.

W. W. WILSON, Solicitor.

3s.

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

In the matter of CHARLES CAVENDISH HURRELL, of Dunedin, gentleman, a prisoner for debt in Her Majesty’s gaol at Dunedin.

NOTICE is hereby given, that I have this day filed in the Supreme Court, at Dunedin, a declaration of my insolvency, under the provisions of "The Bankruptcy Act 1867."

Dated this twenty-eighth day of October, 1868.

CHARLES CAVENDISH HURRELL.

5s 6d

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 CREESE.

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.

19s 6d 3d

STATEMENT of Receipts and Payments under the "Dunedin Church Lands Ordinance, 1861," from 30th September, 1867, to 30th September, 1868.—

£ s. d. £ s. d.
Receipts.
1867.
Sept. 30. Balance in hand 5205 17 9
1868.
Sept. 30. Amount received during the year as rentals ........ 1282 15 0
Do do Interest ...... 316 4 0 1598 19 0
£6804 16 9

Payments.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Cash paid—Bill stamps... 0 2 0
,, Insurance ... 8 2 0
,, Solicitor’s acct. ’0 6 8
Treasurer, Deacon’s Court of 1st Church 360 0 0
Commission—5% et. on £1598 19s 0d ... 79 18 11 448 9 7
Balance in bank, and hands of treasurer ........ £6356 7 2

E. and O. E.
E. SMITH, Treasurer of Synod.
Dunedin, September 30, 1868.

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.