Packages or Articles (logs excepted) 10 cwt. and upwards, per ton ... 5s
Do. do. 20 cwt. and upwards, per ton ... 10s.
All other Goods, 1s. 6d. per ton of 20 cwt., or 40 cubic feet, at option of Wharfinger.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,

that the Partnership between the undersigned Charles Henry Armitage and Angus Alphonse Macdonald, as Sheep Farmers and Runholders, carried on by them upon the Island Station, in the Province of Otago, under the firm of Armitage and Macdonald, expired by effusion of time on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. All debts due by the firm will be paid by Mr. Armitage, who is to receive all moneys due to the firm.

Dated at Dunedin, this fifteenth day of January, 1867.

CHARLES HENRY ARMYTAGE,
By his attorney, Robert N. Bain.

ANGUS A. MACDONALD.
Witness—John Craig, Clerk to Geo. Cook, Solicitor, Dunedin.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1866.

THE following letter from the Secretary of the Paris Exhibition, is published for general information.

R. W. Stanford,
13th September, 1866.

Sir,—I have to inform you that up to the present date no precise information has been received from New Zealand as to the manner in which the Committee appointed for securing a due representation of the Colony in the Paris Exhibition of 1867 propose occupying the space allotted to New Zealand in the Exhibition.

The information desired is—

1. A list of the names and addresses of the different exhibitors in each class.
2. The objects they propose exhibiting.
   a. The amount of space in superficial feet occupied in each glass.

This information was expected to be furnished on or before the 1st of August, 1866. The Imperial Commission are now pressing for the materials for the British catalogue. A portion of the British catalogue is now in course of being printed, and I am to request that you will inform me as soon as possible of the earliest date at which you will be able to supply the information for the catalogue of your Colony.

I am, &c.,
R. G. Wylde,
Assistant Secretary.

W. Gisborne, Esq., Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, New Zealand.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1866.

THE following sections of “The Crown Grants Act, 1866,” are published for general information, and the attention of the public is particularly directed thereto.

Alfred Domett,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

XXXVII. There shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue or other officer appointed to receive the same a fee of one pound upon Crown Grant of lands not exceeding in amount one hundred acres and upon every Crown Grant in excess of one hundred acres, an additional fee of one farthing for every acre in excess thereof.

XXXVIII. There shall be paid upon all grants to be hereafter issued which may be left in the charge or custody of any Commissioner of Crown Lands or other officer charged with the delivery of the same, a fee of sixpence for every month during which they shall have been so left after the expiration of three months from the date of the notice in the “Gazette” of the Province wherein the lands are situated that such grants are ready for delivery.

XXXIX. There shall be paid upon all grants issued prior to the passing of this Act and left as aforesaid in the custody of the officer charged with the delivery thereof a fee of sixpence per month for every month during which they shall be so left after two months subsequent to the passing of this Act.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 4th December, 1866.

IT is hereby notified that I have appointed

William Henry Searle,
esq.,
to be an Inspector of Cattle, under the provisions of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

John P. Taylor,
Superintendent.