(Reprinted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 51, of date 20th September, 1870.)

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Otago and Southland Union Act, 1870,” it is enacted that the said Act shall come into operation on such day as the Governor shall, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and appoint that “The Otago and Southland Union Act, 1870,” shall come into operation on the sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the said Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

No 474.

Between John Hamilton, Plaintiff, and Alexander Hamilton, Defendant.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of this Honorable Court in this cause on or about the second day of September instant, in pursuance of “The Execution of Judgments against Real Estate Act, 1867,” all that section or parcel of land in the Province of Southland, in New Zealand, containing by admeasurement forty-nine acres and two roods, more or less, being section number fourteen on the record map of the Waimumu Hundred; and all those parcels of land situate in the said Province of Southland containing by admeasurement one acre or thereabouts be the same, more or less, being and comprising the allotments marked and numbered (8) eight and (9) nine, of block number (III.) three on the plan of the subdivision into blocks and allotments made by one George Perry of that part known as the Collingwood Estate of the section marked and numbered (2) two, of block number (15) fifteen, on the record map of the Hundred of Invercargill aforesaid; and which said plan of the Collingwood Estate is marked and numbered (4) four of deposited plans in the office of the Registrar of Deeds for the Province of Southland aforesaid, respectively referred to in the memorial of judgment, registered in the said office of the Registrar of Deeds, have been taken in execution at the suit of the abovenamed plaintiff: That the estate and interest of the abovenamed defendant in the said land consists of an estate in fee simple, free from incumbrances; and that the said land will be sold by public auction by Mr David Macorie at his rooms, Dee street, Invercargill, on Saturday, the fifteenth day of January next, at twelve o’clock noon, under authority of Henry M’Culloch, Esq., sheriff of the Province of Southland, unless the judgment debt of £30 9s 2d, with interest thereon at the rate of £8 per cent. per annum, together with £1 11s 6d for the said Writ and Warrant thereon, besides sheriff’s poundage officers’ fees and expenses, be sooner satisfied.

Dated this twenty sixth day of September, 1870.

HY. M’CULLOCH,

Sheriff.

William Russell, Don street, Solicitor for above named plaintiff.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Southland, by CRAIG AND CO., of Invercargill N.Z., Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.