Municipal Balance Sheet and Legal Notices




BALANCE SHEET of the Municipal Corporation

of the Town of Oamaru, for year ending 31st
December, 1870

£ s d
Rates 778 8 0
Licences, Poundage, &c ... 31 2 4
Kerbing and Channelling 56 1 9
Municipal Rents 192 9 6
Subsidy 419 17 3
Balance due to Bank New Zealand 276 12 9
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£1754 11 7

By Balance due Bank N.Z., 1st Jan., 1870 | 295 18 5 |
| Wages | 409 19 7 |
| Contracts | 200 18 2 |
| Extraordinary expenses | 357 19 1 |
| Ordinary expenses | 557 13 10 |
| Amount refunded, overpaid into Bank New Zealand | 2 2 6 |
| | ---------- |
| | £1754 11 7 |

We hereby certify that we have examined the above
Balance-sheet, with the accounts and vouchers, and
found the same correct.

John Locke,
Jas. Fotheringham, } Auditors to the Municipal
Corporation of Oamaru.

Oamaru, December 31, 1870.

Jas. Udall, Mayor.
E. W. Roxby, Town Clerk.

March 1, 1871.


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 Honourable 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
of land containing by admeasurement thirty-six (36)
poles, more or less, situate in the town of Havelock, in
the Province of Otago, in New Zealand, being section
numbered eight (8) block fifteen (15) on the Record
Map of the aforesaid town of Havelock, more
particularly described in the Memorial of Judgment,
registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in
Dunedin, in the Province aforesaid, on the twenty-third
day of September last, has, at the suit of the above-named
William Strachan, the execution creditor, been levied
upon and taken in execution, and will be sold by public
auction at the Sheriff’s Bailiff’s Office, at the Supreme
Court House, in Dunedin aforesaid, on Thursday, the
sixteenth day of March next, at twelve o’clock at noon,
unless the execution shall be previously satisfied.

Dated in Dunedin aforesaid, this nineteenth day of
December, 1870.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Sheriff of Otago.

William Mathew Hodgkins, of Princes street, in
Dunedin, is the solicitor for the execution creditor. The
estate and interest of the above-named Hugh Fraser,
the execution debtor, intended to be sold, is an estate
in fee simple, free from all encumbrances. There is a
building upon the land called the Inverness Hotel, with
outbuildings, all now occupied.


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

No. 10.
Between James White, Plaintiff, and James
Hunter, Defendant.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a Writ
of Fieri Facias to me directed and delivered,
issued out of this Honourable Court in this cause on the
fourteenth day of September last, and in pursuance
of “The Execution of Judgments against Real Estate
Act 1867,” all the estate and interest of the above-named
James Hunter, the execution debtor, in all that parcel
of land containing by admeasurement thirty-three (33)
acres, two (2) roods, and twenty (20) poles, more or less,
situate in the Moeraki District, in the Province of
Otago, in New Zealand, being Section numbered
one of fifteen (1 of 15) Block one (I) on the Record
Map of the said Moeraki District, more particularly
described in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in
Dunedin, in the Province aforesaid, on the fourteenth
day of September last, has at the suit of the above-named
James White, the execution creditor, been levied upon
and taken in execution, and will be sold by public auction
at the Sheriff’s Bailiff’s Office, Supreme Court House,
in Dunedin, on Thursday, the ninth day of March
next, at twelve o’clock at noon, unless the execution
shall be previously satisfied.

Dated at Dunedin aforesaid, the fifth day of December,
1870.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Sheriff of Otago.

John Hyde Harris, of Princes street, in Dunedin, is
the Solicitor for the execution creditor; and the estate
and interest in the said land of the above-named James
Hunter, the execution debtor, intended to be sold, is an
estate in fee simple free from all incumbrances.



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💰 Municipal Corporation Balance Sheet for Oamaru

💰 Finance & Revenue
31 December 1870
Balance Sheet, Municipal Corporation, Oamaru, Financial Report
  • John Locke, Auditor
  • Jas. Fotheringham, Auditor
  • Jas. Udall, Mayor
  • E. W. Roxby, Town Clerk

⚖️ Notice of Sale of Property under Execution

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
19 December 1870
Execution, Property Sale, Havelock, Inverness Hotel
  • William Strachan, Execution creditor
  • Hugh Fraser, Execution debtor

  • I. Newton Watt, Sheriff of Otago
  • William Mathew Hodgkins, Solicitor

⚖️ Notice of Sale of Property under Execution

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
5 December 1870
Execution, Property Sale, Moeraki District
  • James White, Execution creditor
  • James Hunter, Execution debtor

  • I. Newton Watt, Sheriff of Otago
  • John Hyde Harris, Solicitor