WAIRAU HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given that William
Leys of Franklin-street, Freeman’s Bay, Auckland, and John Gumner of Maungaturoto, have been appointed Collectors of Rates for the Highway Board of the above-named District.

John HURNDALL,
Chairman.
Maungaturoto,
July 6, 1868.

I THE undersigned, John Henry Smith, hereby make application to register the Hape Gold Mining Company, Registered, under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1866,” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely:

1. The name and style of the Company is the Hape Gold Mining Company Registered.

2. The place of operations is at the Hape Creek, Thames Gold Fields.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is Two thousand one hundred pounds, (£2,100) in two hundred and ten shares of ten pounds (£10) each.

4. The amount already paid up, is One thousand four hundred pounds, (£1,400).

5. The name of the Manager is John Henry Smith.

6. The Office of the Company is in Lower Queen-street, Auckland.

7. The names and several residences of the Shareholders, and the number of Shares held by each at this date, are as follows:

Dated this eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. H. SMITH.

Witness to signature: Henry Gillfillan,
Justice of the Peace.

I THE undersigned, Richard Keals, of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Architect, hereby make application to Register the Homeward Bound Gold Mining Company Registered, under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1866,” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely:

1. The name and style of Company is the Homeward Bound Gold Mining Company Registered.

2. The place of operation is at Hauraki, in Queen’s County, in the Colony of New Zealand.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is Two thousand five hundred and twenty pounds (£2,520), in eighty-four shares of thirty pounds (£30) each.

4. The amount already paid up, is Two thousand pounds (£2,000).

5. The name of the Manager is Richard Keals.

6. The Office of the Company is at Victoria-street, Auckland.

The names and several residences of the Shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follows:

Dated this ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

RICHARD KEALS,
Manager.

Witness to signature: J. A. Gilfillan
A Justice of the Peace, for the Colony of New Zealand.

I THE undersigned, John Gibbons, hereby make application to register the Tapu Creek Tramway and Quartz Crushing Company Registered, under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1866,” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely:

1. The name and style of the Company, is the Tapu Creek Tramway and Quartz Crushing Company Registered.

2. The place of operations is at Tapu Creek, in Queen’s County, in the Province of Auckland, in New Zealand.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is Five thousand pounds, in five-hundred shares of ten pounds each.

4. The amount already paid up is Four hundred and fifty pounds.