THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1866.
Sept. 13. By cash paid postage CR. £ s. d.
وو 27. By cash paid G. W. Nalder, bill of costs 13 7 10
Oct. 1. By cash paid advertising 0 19 6
دو 30. By cash my commission 2\u00bd per cent. on 18 1 9
£723 13s.
1867.
Jan. 29. By cash paid postage 0 0 6
May 28. By cash my commission 5 per cent. on 36 3 7
£723 13s.
By cash paid Registrar, Hokitika (affidavit) 1 5 6
Balance in Treasury 653 13 10
£723 13 0

IN pursuance of "The Patents Act, 1860," I, John
Henry Noding, of Christchurch, in the Province
of Canterbury, New Zealand, gentleman, hereby give
notice that I have applied for a grant of Letters
Patent under the above Act, for the sole use, benefit,
and advantage of a certain Invention of an Improve-
ment in Machinery for Extracting the Fibre of
Phormium Tenax, the New Zealand Flax; and any
person who may wish to prefer any objection to the
granting of such Letters Patent is hereby required
within four months of the date of the publication of
this advertisement, to send to the office or address
of John Boyle Bennett, Esq., Registrar-General, at
Wellington, a statement in writing setting forth
the grounds of such objection, and subscribed with
his proper name and address.

J. H. NODING.

Witness - Thomas Nottidge, Barrister-at-law,
Christchurch.

DISSOLUTION of Partnership.-Notice is hereby
given, that the Partnership formerly existing
between John King, of Moorgate Street Buildings,
in the City of London, Frederick James Sargood, of
the same place, Frederick Thomas Sargood, of the
City of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, and
John Alexander Ewen, of Dunedin, in the Province
of Otago (but at present temporarily residing in
England), carrying on business as warehousemen
and general merchants in Dunedin aforesaid, under
the style or firm of "Sargood, King, and Sargood,"
has been, so far as concerns the said John King,
dissolved by mutual consent.

And notice is hereby also given, that the business
of the late partnership has been assumed and will be
continued by the said Frederick James Sargood,
Frederick Thomas Sargood, and John Alexander
Ewen, under the partnership, style, or firm of
"Sargood, Son, and Ewen," who will receive and
discharge the debts due to and the liabilities owing
by the late firm.

Dated at Dunedin, this fourth day of February,
1869.

JOHN KING
(by his attorney, Henry Tewsley).

FREDERICK JAMES SARGOOD
(by his attorney, Henry Tewsley).

FREDERICK THOMAS SARGOOD
(by his attorney, Henry Tewsley).

JNO. ALEXANDER EWEN
(by his attorney, Henry Tewsley).

Witness-James Macassey, Solicitor, Dunedin.

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belief and knowledge, true in every particular,
namely:-

1. The name and style of the Company is "The
   Wells Quartz Mining Company, Registered."
2. The place of operation is at the Thames Gold
   Fields.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is four
   thousand pounds.
4. The amount already paid up is three thousand
   two hundred pounds.
5. The name of the manager is Robert Henry
   Eyton.
6. The office of the Company is at No. 35, Queen
   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:-

No. of
Shares.

Charles F. Lloyd, Graham's Town ... 100
James Wells, Graham's Town ... 100
John Dermott, Auckland ... 100
John Johnson, Auckland ... 100
Robert Henry Eyton, Auckland ... 100
George Williamson, Auckland ... 100
John Hancock, Auckland ... 100
George Cornish, Graham's Town ... 100

ROBT. H. EYTON,
Legal Manager.

Attested before J. A. Gilfillan, Justice of the Peace.

I, the undersigned CHARLES WILLIAM MELSOP,
hereby make application to register "The Star
Gold Mining Company, Registered," under the pro-
visions 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
   Star Gold Mining Company, Registered."
2. The place of operations is on the Karaka,
   Thames Gold Field, in the Province of Auckland, in
   the Colony of New Zealand.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is six
   thousand pounds, in six thousand shares of one
   pound each.
4. The amount already paid up is three thousand
   three hundred and sixteen pounds.
5. The name of the manager is Charles William
   Melsop.
6. The office of the Company is at Pollen Street,
   Shortland, in the said Province.
7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders, and the number of shares held by each at
   this date, are as follows:-

No. of
Shares.

Charles Frederick Andrews, Shortland 275
Henry Samuel Andrews, Shortland 75
Thomas Barron, Shortland 63
John Wicket Bridgemon, Auckland 50
George Crow, Shortland 250
Charles Clayforth, Shortland 75
John George Chisholm, Shortland 125
Lawrence Costello, Shortland 125
James Gerrish, Shortland 63
Charles Goodwill, Otahuhu 75
William Osborne Hamlin, Shortland 125
Moses Hotchin, Shortland 63

• Humphreys 50
  William Laing, Shortland (in dispute) 63
  John Styak, Otahuhu (in dispute) 38
  Samuel Marks, Auckland 63
  Samuel Mellor, Shortland 125
  Charles William Melsop, Shortland 125