CITY OF DUNEDIN.—Public notice is hereby given

that the nomination of Candidates for election to
the office of Councillor for Bell Ward (such office being
hereby declared vacant, owing to the retirement of Mr.
F. P. Mansfield) will be declared on Monday, the 27th
February instant, at the Terrace of the Provincial
Government Chambers, at the hour of noon.

Nominations must be in form of Schedule D,
"Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," and
be lodged at the office of the Town Clerk, Princes
street, where blank forms may be had, on or before noon
of the day herein fixed for the declaration.

H. S. Fish, Junr., Mayor.
February 21, 1871.
6s 6d.

CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF PORT CHALMERS.—Balance Sheet, year ending 31st December, 1870:

Income

Dr.

1870.—Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st—
To cash in Bank of Otago ... 79 1 6
... in hand ... 1 15 11
... Received from Cemetery Rates ... 32 8 0
... ... ... 287 5 6
Sundry a/cs ... 39 16 0
Rents, Municipal Estate ... 63 15 0
Overdraft, Bank of Otago ... 100 7 1

... £611 9 0

Expenditure

Cr.

1870.—Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st—
By cash paid salaries ... 170 0 0
... Day labor ... 117 19 0
... Printing, &c. ... 23 4 0
... Contracts ... 154 1 9
... Law expenses ... 74 1 10
... Cemetery ... 1 2 6
... Interest and exchange ... 1 0 0
... Insurance ... 1 17 6
... Sundry petty accounts ... 13 2 0
... Road rates ... 13 6 0
... Purchase of land ... 39 0 0
... Cash in hand ... 2 14 5

... £611 9 0

Liabilities

Bank of Otago ... 100 7 1
Works in progress ... 277 7 11
Other accounts (say) ... 26 0 0
Cemetery ... 55 8 0

... £458 3 0

Assets

Provincial Government vote ... 130 0 0
Dayman’s salary ... 24 0 0
Rates uncollected ... 88 5 6
Rents ... 49 15 0
Sundry accounts (say) ... 11 12 6
Balance ... 154 10 0

... £458 3 0

(Signed) H. M’Dermid, Mayor.
George L. Asher, Town Clerk.

We certify that we have examined the above statement of accounts, books, and vouchers, and found them correct.

(Signed) Wm. Keitle,
Alexander Leck,
Auditors.
Port Chalmers,
January 17, 1871.

THE Gazette may be had gratis by applying to J.
Logan, Superintendent’s Office, Dunedin. Parties should give with their address the nearest post town.

STATEMENT of Income and Expenditure of the Alexandra Cemetery Committee, for the year ending 31st December, 1870:

Income

1870. Jan. 1.—To Balance in Bank of New Zealand ... 17 8 0
      ... Amount received for interments during the year ... 6 10 0
      ... To payment of arrears for interments ... 1 0 0

... £24 18 0

Expenditure

1870. March 7.—By G. Fache, printing ... 2 10 0
      April 18.—By E. J. Browne, repairing fence ... 1 0 0
      Balance in Bank of New Zealand ... 21 8 0

... £24 18 0

We hereby declare the above statement to be correct,

James Samson,
Robert Findlay,
Alexander Jack,
Managers.

Declared before me, at Alexandra, this 16th day of February, 1871.
William Thevers,
A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership which
has for some time past existed between John Ross, Robert Glendining, and Thomas Septimus Harrison,
under the style or firm of “Ross and Glendining,” in
Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, as Merchants and
Warehousemen, was this day dissolved by mutual consent, as regards the said Thomas Septimus Harrison.

The said John Ross and Robert Glendining will
continue the said business under the said co-partnership style, and they will receive all debts due to and pay all
debts due by the late firm.

Dated this 27th day of January, 1871.

T. S. Harrison.
John Ross, by his Attorney,
R. Glendining.

Witness—
William Downie Stewart,
Solicitor, Dunedin.
3t.28/6

SUPREME COURT

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of the
Supreme Court, for the despatch of Criminal and
Civil business, will be held at the Supreme Court-House, Dunedin, on Monday, the Sixth day of
March next, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon,
at which time and place all persons bound by recognizances to appear as prosecutors, defendants, or witnesses, are required to give their attendance.

Notice is hereby further given, that the Civil Cases
will not be called on for Trial until Tuesday the
Fourteenth day of March, at ten o’clock in the forenoon.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.
No. 3805.

Between William Strachan, Plaintiff, and Hugh
Fraser, Defendant.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a writ
of fieri facias, to me directed and delivered, issued out of this Honorable Court in this cause on
the seventeenth day of September last, and of “The
Execution of Judgments against Real Estate Act
1867,” all the estate and interest of the above-named
Hugh Fraser, the execution debtor, in all that parcel