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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 3t

STATEMENT of Income and Expenditure for the Cromwell Cemetery to December 31, 1867.

Income.
£ s. d.
1867.
Government subsidy to January 31 ... 61 0 0
Subscriptions to same date ... 63 8 0
£124 8 0

1867. Expenditure.
      £ s. d.
      Printing and advertising ... 1 4 0
      Fencing Cemetery ... 119 0 0
      Balance in hand ... 4 4 0
      £124 8 0

We certify and declare the above to be a true statement of the Income and Expenditure of the Cromwell Cemetery, for 1867.

Declared by D. Booth, G. Goodger, and P. Kelly, at Cromwell, before me, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

JAMES HOSLETT, J.P.
5th October, 1868.

Declared by R. A. Loughnan, at Dunedin, before me, a Justice for the Colony of New Zealand.

J. RATTRAY.
30th October, 1868.

Managers of Cemetery.
DAVID BOOTH,
G. N. GOODGER,
PATRICK KELLY,
R. A. LOUGHNAN.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY ALDBOROUGH STRATFORD, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths and Marriages, for the District of Blackstone, as the same is defined in Proclamation of thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 48, of 11th December, 1865.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the under-mentioned appointments viz:—

In the No. 1 Company Otago Rifle Volunteers,
Robert Paterson to be Captain. Date of commission, 22nd September, 1868.

In the East Taieri Rifle Volunteers,
Hugh Inglis, M.R.C.S., to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon. Date of Commission, 20th August, 1868.

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

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer, viz.: Captain Frederick J. Moss, No. 1 Company Otago Rifle Volunteers.

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

FOR SALE.—Price Five Shillings—Reports and Awards of Jurors, New Zealand Exhibition, 1865.

GEORGE DIDSBUHY,
Government Printer.

Government Printing Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1868.

From the New Zealand Gazette, October 23, 1868, No. 60.

G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Public Revenues Act 1868," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to proclaim and bring into operation the said Act, or from time to time any parts thereof, at such time as the Governor shall think fit, and that no part of the said Act except the second section thereof (which it is enacted shall come into operation on the passing of the said Act), shall come into operation until such part shall be so proclaimed and brought into operation, or until the time fixed in the proclamation for the coming into operation thereof:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the sections of "The Public Revenues Act 1868" aforesaid, numbered respectively four, five, seven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, shall come into operation on the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and that the remainder of the said Act, exclusive of the sections lastly hereinbefore enumerated, and of the section numbered two, shall come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

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 tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

From the New Zealand Gazette, October 17, 1868, No. 59.

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 Elder Brown, Esquire, has been elected Mayor for the town of Milton:

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 ELDER BROWN, 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 tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.