Robert Farmer, of Mangere, near Auckland ... 15
John Goodall, of Shortland ... 18
Michael Hannaford, of Australia ... 12
James Tannock Mackelvie, of Auckland ... 23
George Mason, of the Kingdom of England ... 24
Neville Septimus Walker, of Shortland ... 9
Andrew Wardrop, of Auckland ... 6
Jules George Wilson, of Shortland ... 8
Robert Workman, of Shortland ... 24
James de Hirsch, of Shortland ... 4

Total—Shares ... 192

Fanny Kinder, Auckland ... 71
Martin Sholl, Auckland ... 66
George Frederick Whitaker, Auckland ... 38
Joseph P. Prescott, Auckland ... 33
Frederick Harvey Lewisson, Auckland ... 101
Edward Pratt, Auckland ... 66
Edward Pratt (in trust for the present proprietors) ... 2000

Dated this twelfth day of March, 1869.

Edward Pratt,
Manager.

Witness to signature:
John L. Tole,
Justice of the Peace.

Dated the eighteenth day of March, 1869.

Witness to signature:
J. S. MacFarlane, J.P.

John Goodall,
Manager.

Thomas S. Weston, of Shortland-street,
Auckland, Solicitor to the Company.

THE undersigned, Edward Pratt, here-
by make application to register the Marquis of Hastings Gold Mining Company, (Registered), under the provisions of the "Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865," 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 Marquis of Hastings' Gold Mining Company (Registered)."

2. The place of operations is at Tapu Creek, Hastings.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is Four thousand pounds in four thousand shares of one pound each.

4. The amount already paid up is nil.

5. The name of the Manager is Edward Pratt.

6. The office of the Company is at 49, 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 follow, namely:—

Dated this eighteenth day of March, 1869.

Edward Pratt,
Manager.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

NORTHERN DISTRICT.

Between Richard Lushley and William George, of Shortland, Wine Merchants, trading in Co-partnership as Lushley & Co., Plaintiffs; and Valentine Blagrove, of the Suburbs of Auckland, Settler, Defendant.

WHEREAS by virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias issued in this action, and directed to me, ordering me that of the real and personal estate of the above-named Valentine Blagrove, I should cause to be made the sum of £98 19s. 6d., together with interest on the said sum, at the rate of Eight Pounds for every One Hundred Pounds by the year, from the fourteenth day of January, 1869, together with £1 12s. 4d., for the said writ and warrant thereon besides Sheriff’s Poundage, Officers Fees, &c. Now, I do hereby give notice that I shall cause to be sold by Public Auction, by Samuel Cochrane and Son, at their Auction Mart, Fort-street, Auckland, on the eighteenth day of May, 1869, at the hour of twelve o’clock noon, unless the said debt of £98 19s. 6d. and interest be sooner paid, together with the said sum of £1 12s. 4d., besides Sheriff’s Poundage, Officers’ Fees, &c. All the estate, right, title, and interest of the said Valentine Blagrove, of, in, and of all that piece or parcel of LAND, situate in the Parish of Titirangi, in the County of Eden, and being Lots Numbers two, three, four, and five, of the subdivision into lots of Allotment Number twenty, which said allotments are delineated, and the boundaries and