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

In the matter of John Roche, of Hayes Lake, in the
Province of Otago and Colony of New Zealand,
pauperan, and in the matter of "The Bankruptcy
Act, 1867," and "The Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act, 1868."

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named
John Roche has this day filed in the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District,
at Dunedin, a declaration of insolvency, under the
provisions of the above-mentioned Acts.
Dated this eighth day of March, 1869.

Gibson K. Turton,
7s. 6d. Solicitor for the above-named John Roche.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
lately subsisting between us, the undersigned
Hugh Kirkpatrick and Watson Shennan, as
drapers in Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, under
the style and firm of Hugh Kirkpatrick and Co., was,
on the first day of February last past, dissolved by
mutual consent, Mr. Shennan retiring from the firm.
The business will in future be carried on by Mr. Hugh
Kirkpatrick alone, who will pay all debts due by, and
receive and give discharges for all monies owing to,
the late firm.

Dated this ninth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

Hugh Kirkpatrick.
Watson Shennan.

Witness,
B. C. Haggitt, Solicitor.
Dunedin.
7s. 6d.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, February 19, 1869, No. 9.)
G. F. Bowen, Governor.

To all to whom these presents shall come,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time to
time to appoint polling places for each Electoral District,
within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any
one of such places to be the principal polling place for
the district, and all or any of such polling places at any
time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in
lieu thereof: And whereas, by warrant under the hand
of the Governor, bearing date the sixth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the Court
House, Naseby, was appointed the principal polling
place for the District of the Gold Fields for the election
of Members of the House of Representatives:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby abolish the above named principal polling place
for the District of the Gold Fields for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives, and do
appoint in lieu thereof—The Court House, Clyde.

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1869.

IT is hereby notified, that a Writ issued for the
election of a Member of the House of Representatives
for the District of Roslyn has been returned with a
certificate to the effect that
Henry Driver,
of Upper Kaikorai, Freeholder, has been duly elected.

E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint Vincent Pyke, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the District of Dunstan for
the election of Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago.

E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 2nd February, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint Henry Cable, Esq., of Waipori, and
Alexander Stewart, Esq., M.D., of Tuapeka, in the
Province of Otago, to be Justices of the Peace, for the
Colony.

E. W. Stafford.

Office of the Commissioners of the Public Debts
Sinking Funds,
Wellington, 25th February, 1869.

THE Commissioners appointed by "The Public Debts
Sinking Funds Act, 1868," hereby give notice that all
moneys heretofore by law payable to the Trustees of the
Sinking Funds of any of the Loans hereinunder-mentioned,
are now payable by the said Act to the Commissioners
aforesaid, and may be paid to either of the under-
mentioned persons, who are authorized by the
Commissioners to receive and to give receipts for the same;
that is to say—

For the Sinking Funds of the Auckland Loan, the
Hon. Dr. Pollen, Auckland;
For the Sinking Funds of the Otago Loans, A. R. C.
Strode, Esq., Dunedin; and
For the Sinking Funds of all other Loans, James
Clark Gavin, the Secretary to the Commissioners.

By order of the Commissioners,
James C. Gavin,
Secretary to the Commissioners.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, New Zealand Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.