DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Partnership between the undersigned, trading as Keligher and O’Donnell, hotelkeepers, at the European Hotel, Dunedin, is this day DISSOLVED by mutual consent.
Patrick Keligher will continue to carry on the said business, and pay all debts due by the late firm, and receive all debts due to the late firm.

PATRICK KELIGHER,
THOMAS O’DONNELL.

Witness to both signatures—
HENRY TOWNSEND.

Dated, Dunedin, March 1, 1875.
3—12s. pd.

AUCTIONEER’S LICENSE.

A MEETING will be held in the Provincial Government Offices, at noon on Thursday, 1st April, 1875, to consider objections (if any) to the application of RICHARD GETHIN CREAGH, of Tapanui, for an Auctioneer’s License.

IMPOUNDED.

On the 5th day of March, 1875, by John Francis Herbert, Ardmore Station, Tapanui.
One strawberry bull stag, branded on off rump with circle having projecting strokes.
One white cow, branded with TR on near rump.
One white calf, no brand.
One white and red cow, branded like 2 D on off rump.
One white and red calf, no brand.
One red and white heifer, no brand visible.
One yellow and white heifer, brand like anchor on off rump.
One red and white steer, branded like anchor on near thigh.
Owners unknown, for trespassing on Ardmore Station, for which 6s. per head is claimed for driving expenses; and in default of being released, the above cattle will be sold at the public pound at Tapanui, on Friday, the 2nd day of April, 1875, at 12 o’clock noon.

A. MACGREGOR,
Poundkeeper of the Glenkenich Pound.

On the 15th day of March, 1875, by Mathew Smith, West Taieri:
One white bullock, indistinct brand on near rump.
Owner unknown, for trespassing on Mr. Fulton’s land, West Taieri; and in default of being released, the above cattle will be sold at the public pound at West Taieri, on Friday, the 2nd day of April, 1875, at 12 o’clock noon.

MICHAEL TYNAN,
Poundkeeper of the West Taieri Pound.

ABSTRACTS from previous Gazette of Impounding Notices:

Thursday, 25th March, at noon.
Three horses and three mares will be sold at South Dunedin Pound.

Friday, 26th March, at noon.
A steer will be sold at Macrae’s Pound.
A brown horse will be sold at Oamaru Pound.

INCENDIARISM.

Maliciously Setting Fire to an unoccupied House and Furniture.

WHEREAS about 9 o’clock on the night of the 13th ultimo, the unoccupied wooden building known as the “Red Lion Hotel,” situate at Frankton, the property of Patrick Mooney, value £325, was discovered on fire, by which the building and furniture were entirely destroyed:

And whereas, at an inquest held on the 20th ultimo, to enquire as to the origin of the said fire, the jury returned the following verdict:—“That the house was maliciously set on fire by some person or persons unknown.”

Notice is hereby given that a reward of £50 will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago to any person who will first give such information as will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons by whom the said fire was caused, and His Excellency the Governor will be advised to grant a free pardon to an accomplice, not being the person who actually caused the fire, who will give such information as will lead to a like result.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.
Police Office, Dunedin,
1st March, 1875.

REGISTRATION

Forms may be obtained gratis from any of the Registration Offices throughout the Province, also at the Superintendent’s office, Dunedin.

From the New Zealand Gazette of Feb. 11, 1874.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint William Cuthbert, Esq., to be registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and also Vaccination Inspector, for the District of West Taieri, as the same is defined in Proclamation of the 8th day of May, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 28, of the 9th day of May, 1875.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Members of Licensing Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 9th February, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint:

Vigor Morris, Esq., J.P.,
to be a member of the Licensing Court for the Licensing District of Palmerston, vice Ernest T. Taynne, Esq., resigned.

WILLIAM BERESFORD, Esq.,
JOHN USHER CAMBRIDGE, Esq., and
HENRY CONWAY JONES, Esq.,
to be Members of the Licensing Court for the Licensing District of Clyde.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Notice to Foreigners.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1875.

PERSONS desirous of obtaining Letters of Naturalization, conferring upon them the privileges of natural-born British subjects in New Zealand, are informed that they can obtain full particulars of the necessary steps to be taken by them on application to the Resident Magistrate in any district, or to the Colonial Secretary at Wellington.

The fee payable under the “The Aliens Act, 1866,” is one pound sterling, and no other expense is entailed on those who apply to the before mentioned persons.

G. S. COOPER,

From the New Zealand Gazette of Feb. 18, 1875.

Defining District of Clyde under “The Licensing Act, 1873.”

(L.S.)

NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

SCHEDULE.

Clyde District.

This District is bounded towards the North by a right line due West from the summit of Ben Nevis on the Hector Mountains to the summit of the Carrick Mountains; thence by a right line to the summit of Cairnmuir Hill; thence towards the North-west by a right line to the junction of the Leaning Rock Creek with the Clutha River; thence by the said creek and a right line to the...