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Lyttelton Times, Volume XLI, Issue 4070, 10 February 1874, Page 1

Bankruptcy Notices. Y. B. IN BANKRUPTCY. IN THE SUPREME COURT OP NEW ZEA. LAND, CANTERBURY DISTRICT. ■VrOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JOHN J3I M'VICKER of Christchurch in the said district labourer has this day filed a declaration in the said Court pursuant to the Bankruptcy Acts that he is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. Dated this 9th day of February 1874. H. AUGUSTUS BAMPORD, Gloucester street, 1426 Solicitor for the said John M'Vicker. Public Notices. TO Shipownersand Others. THE PATENT SLIP at Wellington, N.Z., is capable of raising vessels up to 2000 tons (register). Charges very low. Further particulars on application to the Manager, J. R. GEORGE. Wellington, Ist May, 1873, . ;3735 NOTICE, ’ ALL Outstanding Accounts due to A. J. White, Furnishing Warehouse, to 30th June, 1873, must be paid at once to C. REDFERN, Care of Messrs Saunders and Henderson, Tuam street. All Accounts unpaid 20th February will be sued for. 1180 NOTICE. In the Estate of I. B. Sheath, trading as A. J. WHITE & CO. ALL MONIES due to the above Estate must be paid only to the undersigned. RICHARD WALTON, 1390 Provisional Trustee in Bankruptcy, NOTICE is hereby given, that by a DEED dated the 7th day of November, 1873, Isaac Brenttiall Sheath, assigned all BOOK DEBTS due to him from any person or persons, to the undersigned, and gave them full authority to receive the same. All persons are cautioned not to pay any debt due or owing to the said Isaac Brentnall Sheath, or to the firm of A. J. While and Co., to any other person or persons than the undersigned. 1406 SAUNDERS & HENDERSON. PUBLIC NOTICE. ASSIGNED ESTATE OP A. DALLAS, IN accordance with clause 18 of the General Rules under the Bankruptcy Act, 1867, and the 'Bankruptcy Act, 1868, we hereby call for all vouchers of debts proved in, and for all claims against the above Estate preparatory to declaring a first and final Dividend. J. SHAND, tuVvo+noa W, SAUNDERS, j Trustees. Christchurch, 3rd February, 1874. 1438 NOTICE. TEN RAMS recently purchased in Auckland for Sir Cracroft Wilson were never seen, bred, or sold by the undersigned, as represented. C. & E. MACLEAN, 1322 Stud Breeders. THE Undersigned requests that all Accounts against him will be forwarded for payment, otherwise they will not be .acknowledged after the 10th day of February. THOMAS ELLIS, 126 C ’ Ashley Gorge Station. IMPORTANT TO PUBLICANS. CANTERBURY LICENSED VICTUALLERS’ ASSOCIATION. AS the Annual Applications for Licenses will have to be made under the new Licensing Act, and cn a new description of form, the Committee have, on this occasion, authorised the Secretary to supply the necessary form to any member of the trade, whether belonging to the Association or not, who may apply to him for that purpose. All applications must be lodged on or before the first Tuesday in March. F. C. TRIBE, 1323 Secretary. NOTICE TO THRESHERS. TEMUKA AND GERALDINE DISTRICTS. Three or four threshing machines would find Constant Work during the season, in the Temuka district, if they Thresh so as to let the Fanner live. 1457 A FARMER’S FRIEND. TO GRAIN THRESHERS. TEMUKA AND GERALDINE DISTRICTS, AT a Meeting held at Temuka, on Wednesday, the 4th inst., the Proprietors of Threshing Machines resolved to charge Sixpence per bushel for Threshing wheat and barley, and Fivepence for oats ; tailing to be charged for at same rate. The usual price charged for several years past has been Fourpence per bushel, all round ; tailings, half-price. This Notice is inserted, with a view of inducing Owners of Machines in Northern Canterbury to come and help, by competition, to put a stop to the intended imposition. Such men would receive great support from the farmers of this large district. 1458 A TEMUKA FARMER., CANTERBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY. THE LIBRARY formerly belonging to the Literary Institute will be RE-OPENED ON MONDAY, FEB. 9, Under the authority of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College.

The Buies' of the Circulating Library are as under: — X. That the Library shall he open for the borrowing’ and retaming of books every day, except Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and General Holidays, from ten o’clock in the morning until five in the afternoon, and from six till nine in the evening. each subscriber shall pay in advance ten ' ilhngs XlitiC Cllwl DUUDWiMW ~f, » _ . shillings per annum, or two shillings and sixpence per quarter; and shall also he introduced by a governor or two subscribers. .... ■ 3 that each subscriber may have out of the Library one volume at a time, and no more -. except that all the volumes of a novel may be borrowed at the same time, and a separate volume of plates illustrating any work, may be taken out along with one volume of the text; but in these exceptional cases, the whole must be returned by the expiration of the time allowed for one volume. 4 That inclusive of the days of delivery and return, one week shall be allowed tor reading any periodical, two weeks for an octavo or any smaller volume or for a novel, and three weeks for a quarto or folio volume; and that if on the day when a book ought to be returned, the Library be not open, the next day shall be considered os the day f °s r That if a book be not returned at the due time, the subscriber shall pay a fine of one penny a day for the first week, and after taat time threepence a day for every day of his detaining the book; and if it be not returned within fourteen days, the subscriber may be required to pay its value, or the value of the work of which it forms part, m addition to the fines incurred; and m default of such payment the book or its value, or the value of the work of which it forms part, and the fines, may be recovered in a court of law. . 6 That if a book shall be written in or otherwise damaged, the subscriber in whose hands the book was at the time, may be required to pay the value of the book, or to replace it, at the discretion of the 6 rS ß itana subscriber shall have paid all fines and moneys due by him on account of books detained, lost, or damaged, he shall not be entitled to use the Circulating Library. , ... 1 8 That every subscriber, before being admitted to use the Library, shall sign an undertaking to observe and he hound by the rules of the Library. Members of the Literary Institute, whose snbscSons are paid «P to Dec. 31,1873, have been introduced by one of the governors in accordance with Buie 2, but will he required to give their signature as provided in Buie 8. Members of the Literary Institute whose subscriptions were paid in advance for any part of this current year may have the amounts standing to their credit returned to them, or applied as now subscriptions at the reduced rote. In either case the old card of membership must be given up. The Beading Boom is now open to the public, je of charge, from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. By order of the Board of Governors. F. de C. MALET, Secretary, pro tern. 1354 BOARD and RESIDENCE, with Bedroom and Sitting-room; also, small COTTAGE, suitable for a single man. Apply to Mrs COBBIGK, Mablo Cottage, Caledonian toad, Mw