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Given under my hand, at Wellington, this | debts by affidavit within six calendar months from
twenty-first day of June, one thousand | the date of this order by way of pro rata distribution,
eight hundred and sixty-seven. | subject to existing legal priorities, but so that the
JOHN B. BENNETT, | said creditors shall not receive more than twenty
Registrar-General. | shillings in the pound upon their said respective
debts.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, | 6. To pay the ultimate surplus (if any) of the said
Christchurch, 20th December, 1866. | trust moneys to the bankrupt.

I, GEORGE BOWRON, Registrar of Joint | Dated this seventeenth day of December, 1866.
Stock Companies for the Province of Canter- | By the Court,
bury, do hereby notify that I have registered a | (L.S.) ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Memorandum of Association, with Articles of | Registrar.
Association, establishing a Company with limited
liability of the shareholders therein, entitled | We, the abovenamed Pierce Power and James
"THE HOKITIKA GAS AND COKE COMPANY, | Ashcroft, hereby accept the appointment of trustees
LIMITED;" | made by the foregoing order, and consent to hold the

the objects of which are the manufacture and sale of | real and personal estate therein mentioned upon and
gas, coke, tar, and other products of coal in the Town | for the purposes and trusts therein expressed.
of Hokitika, and the suburbs thereof, and the doing
of all such things as are incidental or conducive to | PIERCE POWER,
the attainment of the above objects; and that in | JAMES ASHCROFT.
pursuance of "The Joint Stock Companies Act,
1860," I have issued a Certificate of Incorporation | Witness to the signature of the said
of the said Company, bearing date this twentieth | Pierce Power—WM. D. STEWART,
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and | articled clerk to Mr. Prendergast.
sixty-six. |
| Witness to the signature of the said
GEORGE BOWRON, | James Ashcroft—G. T. ROWLATT,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. | articled clerk to J. O'Meagher,
solicitor, Oamaru.

IN the Supreme Court of New Zealand: Otago and |
Southland District. | I, the undersigned WILLIAM MONTEITH, do hereby
| make application to register "The Morning Star
In the matter of the petition of WILLIAM CULLEN | Gold Mining Company, Ross, Registered," under the
WHITEHEAD, of Otepopo, in the Province of Otago, | provisions of "The Mining Companies Limited
farmer, a debtor; and of ROBERT GIBSON, of | Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely
Silverstream, in the Province of Otago, aforesaid, | declare that the following statement is, to the best
creditor of the said William Cullen Whitehead to | of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular,
the extent of not less than fifty pounds; and in | namely:—
the matter of "The Debtors and Creditors Act,
1862," and "The Debtors and Creditors Act | 1. The name and style of the Company is "The
Amendment Act, 1863." | Morning Star Gold Mining Company, Ross,
| Registered."
THE matter of this petition coming on this day for the |
second hearing thereof, upon reading the said petition | 2. The place of operations is at Ross, District of
and the affidavits filed in these matters, and upon | Totaru, Westland.
hearing of Mr. Kenyon, of counsel for the bankrupt |
above named: It is ordered that Pierce Power, of | 3. The nominal capital of the Company is four
Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, auctioneer, and | thousand pounds in thirty shares, of one hundred and
James Ashcroft, of Omaru, in the said Province, | thirty-three pounds six shillings and eightpence each.
merchant, be and they are hereby appointed trustees |
4. The amount already paid up is three thousand
of the estate and effects of the said bankrupt; and it | one hundred and twelve pounds nine shillings.
is further ordered that all the real and personal |
estate of the said bankrupt shall vest in the said | 5. The name of the manager is William Monteith.
trustees by virtue of their said appointment, and |
shall be held by them, their heirs, executors, and | 6. The office of the Company is on the claim, at
administrators respectively (except the wearing | Ross.
apparel of the bankrupt, his wife, and children, |
which shall be retained by them), upon and for the | 8. The names and several residences of the share-
following trusts and purposes, viz. :— | holders and the number of shares held by each at this
| date are as follows:—

1. To sell, collect, and get in such real and per- |
   sonal estate and receive the moneys arising therefrom, | Name. Residence. No. of
   and execute all necessary conveyances thereof. | Shares.
   |
2. To retain and pay all expenses properly incurred | George Gilbert Prince ... Ross 2
   of and attending such collection and getting in. | Solomon Marks ... Ditto ... 1
   | David Robertson ... Ditto ... 1
3. To pay the poundage and fees payable under | William Monteith ... Ditto ... 2
   the above-mentioned Act. | William Ritchie ... Ditto ... 1
   | William Needs ... Ditto ... 2
4. To pay the costs properly incurred of and | Henry Hain ... Ditto ... 2
   incidental to the petition in these matters, and sub- | Thomas Lamason ... Ditto ... 2
   sequent thereto, such costs to be taxed; and also all | Alexander Osmond ... Ditto ... 2
   costs and expenses in these matters which have been | William Armstrong ... Ditto ... 1
   and shall be ordered by this Court, or by any Judge | James R. Miller ... Ditto ... 2
   thereof, to be paid out of the estate of the bankrupt. | Charles Davis ... Ditto ... 2
   | Louis Radulosh ... Ditto ... 2
5. To distribute the net residue of the said trust | Patrick Murphy ... Ditto ... 2
   moneys between and amongst and for the benefit of | John Kammer ... Ditto ... 2
   all the creditors at the time of the presentation of | Hugh McCartney ... Ditto ... 1
   his said petition, and who shall duly prove their | Alexander Burns ... Ditto ... 1
   | William Frew ... Ditto ... 1
   | Robert McKenzie ... Ditto ... 1

Dated this sixth day of June, 1867.
WILLIAM MONTEITH, Manager.

Witness to signature—JUSTIN AYLMER, J.P.