We find the following in the Provincial Govern* pent Gazette published last evening j~ " Under and in pursuance of the powers vested in me in that behalf, by the Sheep Act, 1863, made and passed by the Superintendent of the province o', Auckland/ with the advice and oorinent of the Provincial Council thereof, I, the Superintendent, do hereby appoint and constitute all that land, estimated to contain 214,000 acres, known as the Tauranga Block, bounded on the north-east by the sea, from the mouth of Wairaki Creek to Ngakuriawhare Point; on the" south-east by aline bearing south 45 degrees west (true) 16 mile*,' -■ thence on the south-west by a line bearing north 45i degrees west (true) to the summit or watershed of the dividing range of hills between the East Coast and the Thames valley; and thence following the said watershed northward to the summit of the Aroha Mountain j and on the north-west by a straight line from the summit of the Aroha Mountain to Ngakuriawhare Point— to be a district for the purposes of the said Act, tinder the name of the Tauranga sheep district." A public meeting of merchants and traders is con vened to be held on Monday afternoon next, at 3 o'clock, at Mr. 0; Davit's store, Queen-street, for the purpose of considering the propriety of creditors appointing their own <■ sequestrators and assignees in insolvent estates. A prisoner named Shine escaped from custody at the Mount Eden Stockade on Thursday, tut was recaptured on the Kyber Pass Boad. Shine was working with a party in a quarry near Secoombe's Brewery, when he suddenly rushed away down the Kyber Pass Boad. He was fired upon by the sentries, but continued to run for a considerable distance down the road. He was *>t length over* taken and captured by one of the warders. There are one or two soratches on his legs, which were at first' believed to have been caused by the bullets fired after him, but it is more probable they were caused by the stones among which he had to run for part of his brief period of freedom. Yesterday au inquest was held at the Bailway Terminus Hotel, on the body of William Morrow Taylor, which, a» we stated in yesterday's paper, had been found on the beach at Takapuna. 