THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 243

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1868.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:---

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend JAMES BURCHETT.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th of January; No. 9, of
the 13th of February; No. 13, of the 3rd of March;
No. 14, of the 9th of March; No. 18, of the 3rd of
April; No. 19, of the 20th of April; No. 22, of the
7th of May; No. 23, of the 14th May, and No.
25, of the 22nd of May, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

CUSTOMS.-Notice is hereby given that the
undermentioned person has been duly licensed
to act as Custom House Agent at the Port of Picton,
for the period ending the 31st day of December,
1868,-
ARTHUR BEAUCHAMP, Wellington Street.

JOHN ALLEN,
Deputy Commissioner.
Custom House, Picton, 15th May, 1868.

I, the undersigned ROBERT MURRAY MCTURK,
hereby make application to register "The
Karaka 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
   Karaka Gold Mining Company, Registered."
2. The place of operations is at the Karaka
   Creek.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is four
   thousand pounds in four hundred shares of ten
   pounds each.
4. The amount already paid up is one thousand
   seven hundred and twenty pounds.
5. The name of the manager is Robert Murray
   McTurk.
6. The office of the Company is at Shortland.
7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders and the number of shares held by each at
   this date are as follows:-
   Name. Residence. No. of
   Shares.
   Benjamin Johnson ... Waiotahi ... 38
   Henry Medland Shepherd Shortland ... 22
   David Nolan ... Auckland ... 16
   Henry McNaughton ... Shortland ... 14
   Anderson Christie ... Ditto ... 14
   John Ebenezer White ... Ditto ... 14
   William Corbett ... Auckland ... 8
   William Eyre ... Ditto ... 8
   William Smith ... Shortland ... 6

Name. Residence. No. of
Shares.
Frederick Lyster ... Shortland ... 6
Francis Ring ... Ditto ... 6
Robert Murray McTurk... Ditto ... 6
James Braithwaite ... Ditto ... 6
John Kevon ... Ditto ... 8
Total ... 172

Dated this nineteenth day of February, 1868.
ROBERT M. MCTURK,
Manager.
Witness to signature-JAMES MACKAY, Jun., J.P.

I, the undersigned MILES ASHMORE, hereby make
application to register "The Leviathan Water
Race 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 :--

1. The name and style of the company is "The
   Leviathan Water Race Company, Registered."
2. The place of operations is at Kawhaka Creek,
   in the Waimea District.
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 one thousand
   pounds.
5. The name of the manager is Miles Ashmore.
6. The office of the Company is at Kawhaka
   Creek.
7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders and the number of shares held by each at
   this date are as follows:-
   Name. Residence. No.of
   Shares.
   Evan Prosser ... Hokitika ... 50
   Samuel Pizzey ... Ditto ... 50
   Samuel Sammons ... Kawhaka Creek ... 50
   John Dixon ... Ditto ... 50
   Thomas Dixon ... Ditto ... 50
   William Douthwaite ... Ditto ... 50
   William Arkell ... Hokitika ... 50
   Thomas H. Prosser ... Ditto ... 25
   James Holmes ... Ditto ... 25
   Acheson McClintock ... Kawhaka Creek ... 50
   Miles Ashmore ... Ditto ... 50
   Dated this nineteenth day of March, 1868.
   MILES ASHMORE,
   Manager.
   Witness to signature-Jas. BONAR, J.P.

SOUTHERN Steam Navigation Company
(Limited).--Notice is hereby given that at an
Extraordinary General Meeting of the Southern
Steam Navigation Company (Limited), held at the
registered office of the Company in Manse Street,
Dunedin, on Friday, the fifteenth day of May, 1868,
at the hour of twelve o'clock noon, of which due
notice was given, the following Resolution, passed at
an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above-
named Company, held at the registered office of the
Company in Manse Street aforesaid, on Friday, the
third day of April, 1868, duly convened for that
purpose, was confirmed by three-fourths in number
and value of the shareholders for the time being
entitled to vote, present thereat:
RESOLUTION.
"It is resolved that the Southern Steam Navi-
gation Company (Limited) shall be wound
up voluntarily."
J. B. MUDIE,
Secretary.