THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 605

in the event of your being unable to obtain ten
married couples, you are at liberty to send an equiva-
lent number of young unmarried men and women.
As the main object in sending out this lot of emi-
grants is that they may report to their friends in
Sweden fully upon New Zealand as a field for emigra-
tion, it is desirable that they should be taken not
from one locality only but from as many different
districts as possible, so that any reports they may
send home may circulate widely throughout the
country.

These emigrants will have to be sent either to
London or Glasgow, where they will embark for New
Zealand; but before sending them you will have the
goodness to communicate with Mr. Morrison, the
Agent of the New Zealand Government in London,
who will advise you of the date of sailing of a vessel
from one or other of these ports for New Zealand.

Instead of waiting until the whole number has
been secured, there is no objection to your sending
off two or three couples at a time; but it is impor-
tant that the whole batch should be despatched before
the close of the present emigration season.

The New Zealand Government will defray the
whole cost of their passage (including provisions) of
these emigrants from Gottenburgh to London or
Glasgow, and thence to New Zealand; and Mr.
Morrison will be authorized to make the necessary
payments.

Should this experiment result in establishing a
continuous stream of emigration from this country
to New Zealand, the Government will inform you of
the extent of assistance they will in future afford to
emigrants, and will be prepared to enter into the
usual agreements with your firm as their agents.

I have, &c.,
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
One of the New Zealand Commissioners, and
a Member of the New Zealand Government.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867," notice is hereby given, that a transcript of
the By-laws of
"The Loyal Blue Spur Lodge, Manchester
Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Friendly Society (Otago District),"

has been lodged with the Registrar of Friendly
Societies, registered and recorded in his Office
under the provisions of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867."

Dated the eighteenth day of November, 1870.
G. S. COOPER
(for the Registrar).

Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Auckland, 25th October, 1870.
JOHN MUIR WAYLAND, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Provinces of Auckland
and Hawke's Bay, in the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby notify that I have registered a Memorandum
of Association, with Articles of Association, establish-
ing a Company, with limited liability of the share-
holders therein, intituled

"The North Devon Gold Mining Company,
Limited."

The objects for which the Company is established
are--" 1. To carry on mining operations of any kind
upon or within or under certain mining property,
called the North Devon and Okarita Claims, situate
at the head of the Moanataiari Creek, at the Thames
Gold Field, in the Province of Auckland. 2. To
acquire other land, by purchase or otherwise, and
carry on mining operations upon, within, or under
the same; to amalgamate with other claims and
companies. 3. To enter into arrangements whereby
shareholders, or some of them, in other companies
may receive in compensation, or part compensation,
for the sale of their interests, paid up or partly paid
up or other shares in the Company. 4. To purchase
erect, work, hire, and let machinery of all kinds con-
nected with the working of mines, and the rendering
of the ores therefrom available. 5. To let, sell, or
otherwise dispose of or deal with any property
whatsoever of the Company. 6. And to do all such
other things as are incidental or conducive to the
attainment of the above objects.

And that, in pursuance of the provisions of "The
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I have issued a
Certificate of Incorporation of the said Company,
bearing date this twenty-fifth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

JOHN M. WAYLAND,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

STATEMENT of the Average Amount of LIABILITIES and ASSETS of the BANK OF NEW
ZEALAND, in the Colony of NEW ZEALAND, during the Quarter ended 26th SEPTEMBER, 1870.

Total Average Liabilities £1,669,023 4 1 | Total Average Assets £2,726,169 12 2

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter ended
the 26th September, 1870 . . . 500,000 0 0
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders . 15 cent. annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared . . . 37,500 0 0
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such Dividend . 195,513 8 11
Dated at Auckland, this 20th day of October, 1870.

D. L. MURDOCH, Inspector.
FREDK. BATTLEY, Inspector's Accountant.