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15. A skeleton map of every block shall be
    deposited for public information one fortnight before
    such block is offered for sale at the office of the
    Secretary for Crown Lands, Wellington, and at the
    Land Office, New Plymouth, and at such places as
    the Colonial Secretary may direct in Auckland,
    Wanganui, Patea, Napier, Nelson, Blenheim, Christ-
    church, Hokitika, Dunedin, and Invercargill.
16. All powers conferred and all duties imposed
    on the Colonial Secretary under these regulations
    may be exercised and performed by the Minister for
    the time being in charge of confiscated lands.

NOTICE is hereby given that an application has
been made to His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by John Alves, of
Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, in the said
Colony, contractor, for the grant to him, the said
John Alves, of letters patent under the seal of the
said Colony, for the exclusive use, enjoyment and
advantage within the said Colony of a new invention
or improvement for washing wool thoroughly clean,
whilst growing on the back of sheep, by a different
and more effectual process than any other process at
present in use or proposed to be introduced. And
notice is hereby further given that any person who
may wish to prefer any objection to the granting of
such letters patent, is hereby required, within four
calendar months from the publication of this notice,
to send to the office of John Boyle Bennett, Esq.,
Registrar-General, at Wellington, in the Province of
Wellington, in the said Colony of New Zealand,
(being the person appointed for that purpose under
the provisions of "The Patents Act, 1860,") a
statement in writing, setting forth the grounds of
such objection, and subscribed with the proper name
and address of the person so objecting.

Dated at Dunedin aforesaid, this thirtieth day of
June, 1868.

GIBSON K. TURTON,
Solicitor for the abovenamed applicant.

I, the undersigned, HENRY TOMLINSON TOWNDROW,
hereby give notice of an increase in the capital
of "The Macraes Quartz Crushing Company, Regis-
tered," 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 day on which the increase was resolved on,
   is Monday, May the eleventh.
2. The nominal capital of the Company has been
   increased from Eight hundred pounds, in one hundred
   and sixty shares of five pounds each, to Twelve
   hundred pounds, in two hundred and forty shares of
   five pounds each.
3. That I am the manager of the Company.
   HENRY TOMLINSON TOWNDROW,
   Manager.

Dated this twenty-third day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness to signature,-J. W. MURDOCK, J.P.

I, the undersigned, JAMES MARSHALL LENNOX, of
High Street, Auckland, in the Colony of New
Zealand, Estate Agent and Sharebroker, hereby
make application to register "The United 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
   United Gold Mining Company, Registered."

2. The place of operation is at the Waiotahi,
   Thames Gold Fields, Auckland, New Zealand.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is One
   thousand six hundred and twenty pounds (£1,620).

4. The amount already paid up is One thousand
   six hundred and twenty pounds (£1,620).

5. The name of the manager is James Marshall
   Lennox.

6. The office of the Company is at High Street,
   Auckland.

7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders, and the number of shares held by each at
   this date, are as follows:-
   Christian Henry Wick, Shortland, aforesaid ... 22
   Wadham Nowill, Shortland, aforesaid ... 22
   Matthew Vaughan, Shortland, aforesaid ... 22
   James Dickey, Auckland, aforesaid ... 24
   William Taylor, Auckland. aforesaid ... 12
   Frederick Hewin, Auckland, aforesaid ... 24
   James Marshall Lennox, aforesaid ... 24
   Charles Sanderson, Auckland, aforesaid ... 12
   No. of
   Shares.

Dated the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
J. M. LENNOX,
Manager.

Witness to signature,-H. D. MOR-
PETH, a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony of New Zealand.

I, JOHN HENRY BURNSIDE, of Auckland, in the
Province of Auckland and Colony of New Zea-
land, merchant, hereby make application to register
"The Waiotahi 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
   Waiotahi Gold Mining Company, Registered."
2. The place of operations is at the Waiotahi
   Creek, in the Thames Gold Field, in the Province of
   Auckland.
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
   nine hundred and twenty pounds.
5. The name of the Manager is John Henry
   Burnside.
6. The office of the Company is at Archibald
   Somerville's store, Waiotahi Flat, Thames.
7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders, and the number of shares held by each at
   this date, are as follows:-
   David Nolan, Pitt Street, Auckland ... 15
   Benjamin Johnson, Parnell, near Auckland ... 21
   John Henry Burnside, Symonds Street, Auck-
   land, and John Johnston Scales, Parnell,
   near Auckland, trading as J. H. Burnside
   and Co., Queen Street, Auckland ... 48
   Thomas Healy, Howick, Ridge Road ... 12
   George Rhodes, junior, Waiotahi Claim ... 12
   James Matthews, Waiotahi Claim ... 12
   John Townley, Waiotahi Claim ... 12
   Francis Samuel Townley, Napier Street,
   Auckland ... 15
   William Robinson, North Shore ... 18
   George Rhodes, Hobson Street, Auckland ... 12
   Thomas Moore Philson, Auckland... ... 12
   Edward Bull, Auckland ... ... 3
   No. of
   Shares.

Dated this twentieth day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
J. H. BURNSIDE.

Witness to the signature of John
Henry Burnside,-ALAN BAILLIE, J.P.