Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1870 – No. 3

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✨ Mining Company Registration



I, the undersigned James Drummond Macpherson, hereby make application to register “The Lyttelton Enterprise 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 Lyttelton Enterprise Gold Mining Company, Registered.”

  2. The place of intended operations is in McQueen’s Pass, Banks Peninsula, in the Province of Canterbury.

  3. The Nominal Capital of the Company is three thousand pounds, in three thousand shares of one pound each.

  4. The amount already paid up is two hundred and seventy four pounds, one hundred and five pounds of that sum being paid up in cash and the balance namely, one hundred and sixty nine pounds, being the amount allotted in paid up shares.

  5. The name (in full) of the Manager is James Drummond Macpherson.

  6. The Office of the Company is in Norwich Quay, in the town of Lyttelton.

  7. The names (in full) and several residences of the Shareholders, and the number of shares held by each, at this date, are as follows :--

NAME. RESIDENCE. NO. OF SHARES
William Donald Lyttelton 10
Henry Richard Webb " 10
George Mackay " 10
John Ebert " 10
John Pascoe Oliver " 10
Harry Allwright " 10
Robert West England " 20
William Reed " 10
John Hamilton " 10
John George Fyfe " 10
Joseph Childs " 10
Richard Wood " 10
Alexander Cracroft Wilson " 10
Kelynge England " 10
Robert West England, } " 10
and Kelynge England } "
Thomas Hester " 10
James Thomas Wellington Wilkin " 10
James Daniel Ferguson " 10
Edward Allen Hargreaves " 4
Charles Littlecott " 4
Henry Hamilton Knowles " 4
James Drummond Macpherson " 10
Thomas Murray " 10
George Howe " 10
William Chyunoweth " 10
James Purvis Jameson Christchurch 10
John Louis Balestiee " 10
George Edmunds Head of the Bay, 10
Lyttelton
John Gebbie Gebbie’s Valley 10
The Manager in Trust 2712
for the Company
Total 3000

Dated this 8th day of January, 1870.

J. D. MACPHERSON,
Legal Manager.

Witness to signature,
THOMAS CASS,
Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🌾 Registration of The Lyttelton Enterprise Gold Mining Company

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
8 January 1870
Gold mining, Company registration, Shareholders, Lyttelton, Canterbury
28 names identified
  • James Drummond Macpherson, Applicant and Manager
  • William Donald, Shareholder
  • Henry Richard Webb, Shareholder
  • George Mackay, Shareholder
  • John Ebert, Shareholder
  • John Pascoe Oliver, Shareholder
  • Harry Allwright, Shareholder
  • Robert West England, Shareholder
  • William Reed, Shareholder
  • John Hamilton, Shareholder
  • John George Fyfe, Shareholder
  • Joseph Childs, Shareholder
  • Richard Wood, Shareholder
  • Alexander Cracroft Wilson, Shareholder
  • Kelynge England, Shareholder
  • Thomas Hester, Shareholder
  • James Thomas Wellington Wilkin, Shareholder
  • James Daniel Ferguson, Shareholder
  • Edward Allen Hargreaves, Shareholder
  • Charles Littlecott, Shareholder
  • Henry Hamilton Knowles, Shareholder
  • Thomas Murray, Shareholder
  • George Howe, Shareholder
  • William Chyunoweth, Shareholder
  • James Purvis Jameson, Shareholder
  • John Louis Balestiee, Shareholder
  • George Edmunds, Shareholder
  • John Gebbie, Shareholder

  • J. D. Macpherson, Legal Manager
  • Thomas Cass, Justice of the Peace