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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 1869.

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 :--

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend DONALD Ross.

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. 4, of the 29th of January; No. 5, of
the 8th of February; No. 15, of the 19th of March;
No. 16, of the 25th of March; No. 18, of the 1st of
April; No. 22, of the 17th of April; No. 23, of the
27th of April, and No. 25, of the 13th of May, in
the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirty-first day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Christchurch, 21st May, 1869.

I, EDWARD DENHAM, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Province of Canterbury
do hereby notify that I have registered a Memorandum
of Association, with Articles of Association annexed,
establishing a Company, with limited liability of the
shareholders therein, intituled

"The Canterbury Meat Export Company, Limited."

The objects for which the Company is established
are, the procuring by purchase or otherwise of animals
alive or dead, and the general utilization of every
portion of the carcases of such animals, by preserving
and making fit for human consumption as food, by
any process whatever, any portion of the flesh of such
animals; the manufacture of tallow, and the dressing
and preparation of wool, skins, bones, pelts, and
offal by any process whatever, and the disposing
thereof by exportation, sale, or otherwise; and the
doing all such other things as are incidental or
conducive to the attainment of the above objects:

And that, in pursuance of "The Joint Stock Com-
panies Act, 1860," I have issued a Certificate of
Incorporation of the said Company, bearing date the
twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.

EDWARD DENHAM,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
heretofore subsisting between John Hamilton
Ward and Arthur Wellington Palmer, as Fellmongers
and Wool Scourers, at the Heathcote Wharf, Ferry
Road, near Christchurch, in the Province of Canter-
bury, under the style of "Palmer and Co.," has this
day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts
due to or from the late firm will be received and
paid by the said J. H. Ward.

Dated this 21st day of May, 1869.

J. HAMILTON WARD.
ARTHUR W. PALMER.

Witness to the signatures of J. H. Ward and A.
W. Palmer, Geo. Taylor, Clerk to Hanmer
and Harper, Solicitors, Christchurch.

I, the undersigned JAMES HOLMES HANSON,
hereby make application to register "The
Royal Sovereign Gold Mining Company," 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,
namely:-

1. The name and style of the Company is "The
   Royal Sovereign Gold Mining Company, Registered."
2. The place of operations is at Wiseman's Gully,
   Karaka Block, Thames.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is fourteen
   thousand pounds, in one thousand four hundred
   shares of ten pounds each.
4. The amount already paid up is ten thousand
   five hundred pounds.
5. The name of the manager is James Holmes
   Hanson.
6. The office of the Company is in Shortland
   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:-

Dated this twenty-second day of April, 1869.

J. H. HANSON,
Legal Manager.

Witness to signature—Henry Weekes, J.P.

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