NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership between the undersigned Alexander Jerusalem Smyth, John Howat, John Francis Herbert, Edward Herbert, and Archibald M’Kinlay, in the trades or businesses of Saw Mill Proprietors, Tallow Manufacturers, and Fellmongers, and all other trades or businesses in which they may be concerned as co-partners at Tapanui, in the Province of Otago, and elsewhere, under the firm of “Herbert, Smyth and Co.,” was this day dissolved by mutual consent, so far as concerns the said Alexander Jerusalem Smyth, and in future the business will be carried on by the said John Howat, John Francis Herbert, Edward Herbert, and Archibald M’Kinlay, under the name or style of “Herbert, Howat and Co.,” and who will pay and receive all debts owing from or to the said partnership in the regular course of trade.

Witness our hands this thirtieth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

A. J. Smyth,
John Howat,
Signed —— JOHN F. HERBERT,
EDWARD HERBERT,
ARCH. M’KINLAY.

Witness to all the signatures —
St. 36s. Wm. Note Gooday, Solicitor, Lawrence.

RICHARD W. NICHOLS hereby gives notice to the Education Board, and to others whom it may concern, that it is his intention to Fence the Boundary Line between Sections 169, 170, 171, and Sections 160, 172, and 173, Block II, Tuapeka East. Lawrence, 27th August, 1870.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1870.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled —

“The Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway Lands Compulsory Taking Ordinance 1870;”

“University of Otago Endowment Ordinance 1870;”

“Otago Representation Ordinance 1870;”

“Roads Diversion Ordinance 1870;”

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

W. GISBORNE.

Note. — The above Ordinances were erroneously included in a Gazette notice of the 1st August, page 376, among others in respect of which His Excellency had not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1870.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting the person descriptive return of whom is published below, any one who can give any information relative to him is requested to communicate with this office.

G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

Name —— James Whitley.
Occupation —— Farmer and brewer.
General personal appearance —— Light complexion; height, five feet nine inches.
Usual residence before coming to the Colony —— Wisbeach.
Age —— Forty-six years.
Married.
Left London 21st August, 1865.
Last heard of in New Zealand, in December, 1868.

From the New Zealand Gazette, September 1, 1870, No. 45.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1870.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, intituled —

“District Roads Compulsory Land Taking Ordinance 1870;”

“Tokomairiro School Residence and Glebe Lands Sale Ordinance 1870;”

“Lawrence Athenæum and Mechanics Institute Reserve Leasing Ordinance 1870;”

“Oamaru Race Course Reserve Management Ordinance 1870;”

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

W. GISBORNE.

Treasury,
Wellington, 25th August, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, in terms of “The Public Revenues Act 1867,”

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD, Esq.,
to be Paymaster for Supreme Court Services at Dunedin.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., of Stafford street, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.