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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, JAMES DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, hereby make application to register the "STARLIGHT 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 knowledge and belief, true in every particular:—

1. The name and style of the Company is the "Starlight Gold Mining Company, Registered."
2. The place of operations is on the Nelson Southwest Goldfields, near the claim of the Moonlight Gold Mining Company, Registered.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is Two Thousand Pounds (£2000) in Two Hundred (£400) Shares of Five Pounds (£5) each.
4. The amount already paid up is Five Hundred and Eighty Eight Pounds (£588), of which Two Hundred and Eighty Eight Pounds (£288) has been paid in cash, and Three Hundred Pounds (£300) in Sixty full paid-up shares held by the Manager in trust for the Company.
5. The name of the Manager is James Drummond Macpherson.
6. The Office of the Company is at the offices of the said James Drummond Macpherson, in Cashel-street in the City of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury.
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 Twenty-third day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty nine.
J. D. MACPHERSON, Manager.

Witness to signature—
J. EVANS BROWN, Justice of the Peace.

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1869.

IT is hereby notified, that Writs issued for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Nelson have been returned with Certificates to the effect that,

For the District of Amuri,
Andrew Rutherford, of Mendip Hills, householder;

For the District of Golden Bay,
William Gibbs, Esq., of Totaranui, freeholder;

For the District of Buller,
Eugene Joseph O'Connor, of Westport, freeholder;
Alexander Reid, of Westport, householder;

For the District of Motueka,
Henry Alexander Tarrant, of Moutere, freeholder and householder;
Bernard Macmahon, of Riwaka, freeholder, leaseholder, and householder;

For the District of Waimea South,
Edward Baigent, of Waimea South, freeholder;
Joseph Shephard, of Waimea South freeholder;

For the District of Waimea East,
John Wallis Barnicoat, of Waimea East, freeholder;
John Fedor Augustus Kelling, of Waimea East, freeholder;

For the District of Waimea West,
Charles Kelling, of Moutere, freeholder;

For the District of Charleston,
George Donne, of Charleston, freeholder;

For the District of Grey,
William Norris Franklyn, of Westport, freeholder;
Samuel Meggit Mackley, of Waituna, Grey, freeholder;

For the District of Suburban North,
Edmund Wastney, of Suburban North, freeholder;

For the District of City of Nelson,
David Mitchell Luckie, of City of Nelson, freeholder;
Henry Adams, of City of Nelson, freeholder;
Alfred Greenfield, of City of Nelson, freeholder;
Arthur Collins, of Suburban North, freeholder;
have been duly elected.

W. GISBORNE.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Nelson, by R. LUCAS and SON, Bridge-street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.