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Public Companies. SALTWATER CREEK AND KAIAPOI COASTING STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. LIMITED. NOTICE is hereby given that the THIRD CALL of £2 10s per share has been made, and that the Shareholders are required to pay the same either at the Secretary's office, or into the Bank of New Zealand at Christchurch, Kaiapoi, or Lyttelton, on or before the 28th day of January, 1864. By order of the Directors, HARRY EDW. DAMPIER, Secretary. Saltwater Creek, 24th Dec., 1863. 6627 EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. THE European Assurance Society transacts every description of Life Assurance on the most i favorable terms to assurers, and issues policies of . guarantee for fidelity in favor of officials in the seri vice of the Government, Banks, and Public Institu- . tions and Commercial Firms in Australia and New ■ Zealand. Offices: 99, Collins-street west, Melbourne. Branch offices at Adelaide, Hobart Town, and i Launceston. ; WILLIAM E. STARK, , Secretary. i HARMAN & STEVENS, ■ 892 Agents for Canterbury. THE NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Chairman: John White Cater, Esq. (Messrs. J. W. Cater, Son & Co.) 1 Deputy-Chairman: Charles Morrison, Esq. Messrs. Morrison, Dillon & Co. Manager: George Henry Whyting, Esq. Capital £2,000,000 sterling. All risks rated upon their own merits. Losses promptly and liberally settled. i Forms of proposal and every information will be furnished on application to the undersigned, who has been appointed agent for the company in Canterbury. ROBERT SYMINGTON, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, and Norwich Quay, Lyttelton. September 17, 1862. 3653 Public Notices. NEW WESLEYAN CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH. THE Corner Stone of the New Wesleyan Church will be laid on THURSDAY, the 28th instant, at 4 p.m., by his Honor the Superintendent. The attendance of the Christian public is respectfully invited. Addresses will be delivered by several ministers 1 and lay gentlemen. Christchurch, Jan. 24, 1864. 414 NEW WESLEYAN CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH. THE CORNER STONE of the above Church will be LAID on THURSDAY, the 28TH INSTANT, BY HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT, At four o'clock, and at half-past six in the Evening A TEA MEETING will be held in the Schoolrooms, High street, to which the public are invited. Admittance 2s. Several Ministers and Gentlemen may be expected to address the meeting. Christchurch, Jan. 20, 1864. 415 THE CHRISTCHURCH FEMALE HOME. THE CHRISTCHURCH FEMALE HOME AND THE REGISTRY OFFICE in connection with it, was OPENED on MONDAY, 25T11 INSTANT. For particulars apply to Mrs. Ritchie, matron, Female Home, Worcester street. As the Home is designed solely for the use of women of good character, a certificate from the last employer, or from some respectable householder, will be necessary. 499 NOTICE. ALL Claims against the Estate and Effects of the Late DANIEL McIVOR, of Lyttelton, must be rendered to the undersigned on or before FEBRUARY, the 13th, 1864. All Debts due to the deceased must be paid on or before that date to prevent legal proceedings. WILLIAM CLIFFORD, THOMAS McCLATCHIE, 300 Executors. NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED having ceased to allow Messrs. Robinson and Langbridge to act in any way as his agents, all accounts will in future be collected by himself. WM. WEEDEN, Half-way House, Great South Road, 17 Dec. 1863. C 6444 IN THE SUPREME COURT. In re LOCKHART ats. DOUGLAS ALDERSON and others. ALL gentlemen interested in the affairs either of Mr. George Duncan Lockhart, of Canterbury, Stockowner, or Messrs. Douglas Alderson and others, Traders, of Dunedin, Otago, are invited to a full inspection of all the correspondence which led to the above-named Action-at-law ; also of n copy of the report (Otago 'Daily Times,' 10th September, 1863) of Mr. James Smith's application to the Supreme Court to restrain Mr. George Duncan Lockhart from selling his own property, which application the Court refused. All the above-named documents are lying at my office, where they can be perused during office hours. (Signed) WHjLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Solicitor, Cathedral Square, c 8 Christchurch. CAUTION. —Whereas on the twenty-first day of March, 1863, Mr. George Duncan Lockhart, of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, contracted to sell and deliver to us the undersigned John Douglas, and Francis Alderson, trading as Douglas, Alderson and Co., all his interest in a certain tract of Crown Land, situate in the Province of Canterbury, and called or known as the Hekateramea Station, and comprising the Runs numbered respectively as follows, namely:—334, 198, 158, 197, 197 No. I and 197 No. 2; together with certain Freehold Land, and also, certain Sheep, Cattle, and Horses ( then being depastured on the said Station for the price of Forty-four Thousand Pounds, part of which sum, that is to say tljo sun) of Ten Thousand Pounds, was paid by us to the said George Duncan Lockhart, on the said day of sale, in pursuance of the said contract. And whereas in consequence of the refusal of the said George Duncan Lockhart to deliver to us the said Hekateramea Station and Stock, we have commenced and are now prosecuting a suit in the Supreme Court of Now Zealand to compel the specific performance of his said contract, to wit, the delivery of the said station, freehold and stock, together with special damages for the said breach of contract. Now these presents are to give . notice to and to caution the public not to treat with . the said George Duncan Lockhart, or any other per- ' son whatever for the purchase or transfer of the j said station, freehold, and stock, or any part thereof ( respectively; the said station, freehold, and stock belonging rightfully and equitably to us by virtue of the said contract. Signed at Dunedin, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1863. i JOHN DOUGLAS, FRANCIS JOHN ALDERSON. j Witness—James Smith, Solicitor. < N.B. —There is no truth whatever in the report i which we understand to be in Circulation in Canter- ] bury, that Mr. Lockhart has refunded to us the £10,000 paid to him by us as above stated.