THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
449

Tramways Act, 1872," will be made at the following
places for public inspection :—
I. The office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court, Christchurch.
II. The City Council Office, Christchurch.
III. The Borough Council Office, Sydenham.
IV. The Avon Road Board Office.
V. The office of the Selwyn County Council.
VI. The Public Works Office, Wellington.
VII. The office of the Company, in Cathedral
Square Chambers, Christchurch.

Fifthly. The office of the Canterbury Tramway
Company (Limited), situated in Cathedral Square
Chambers, in the City of Christchurch, is the place
at which printed copies of the draft order when
deposited, and of the order when made, will be
obtainable.

By order of the Board of Directors.
JOSIAH BIRCH, Secretary,
Canterbury Tramway Company (Limited).
Cathedral Square Chambers,
Christchurch, 4th April, 1878. 211

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

IT is hereby publicly notified that the persons
named below have been appointed County
Ferrymen for the Ferries set after their names.
JOHN HILLARY ... Foxton Ferry.
GEORGE BOYD ... Lower Gorge Ferry.
ERNEST S. THYNNE,
Chairman. 215

APPLICATION FOR WATER-RACE.

District of Dunstan,
5th March, 1878.

To the Mining Registrar at Clyde of the Otago Gold
Fields Mining District, and all other persons whom
it may concern.

TAKE notice that it is intended to construct a
Water-race and divert water for gold-mining
purposes, commencing at a point at the head of the
Fraser River, and terminating at site for quartz-
crushing machine. The length of such race is two miles
or thereabouts, and its intended course is south-west
by north-east. The mean depths and breadths of
such race is 2 feet by 3, and it is proposed to divert
six Government heads of water.

CHARLES NICHOLSON.
JAMES CARLE NICHOLSON.
JOHN FRY KITCHING.
ALEXANDER MCDONALD.
CHARLES BAKER.

Any person objecting to the granting of this appli-
cation must lodge his objection within fourteen days
from the date hereof. Hearing at Clyde, on the 11th
day of April proximo. 208

NELSON SOUTH-WEST GOLD FIELDS.

APPLICATION FOR LEASE.

To the Warden at Ahaura.

HEREBY apply for a Gold-Mining Lease of the
lands hereinafter described, in accordance with
the Gold-Mining Leases Regulations of New Zea-
land; and I agree, upon the approval of this appli-
cation, to execute a lease upon the basis therein
stated, if the Governor shall think fit to grant the
same.

Name and address in full of applicant: Samuel Samuels,
Moonlight Creek.
Extent of land applied for: 10 acres.

Proposed mode of working the land: Quartz-reefing.
Precise locality: Moonlight Ranges, on the south boundary,
or near about Allan Macdonald's prospecting claim.
Term for which lease required: 15 years.
Time of commencing operations: June, 1878.

Ahaura, 3rd April, 1878.
SAMUEL SAMUELS,
Applicant.

The above application, and any objection thereto,
will be heard at the Warden's Office at Ahaura, on
the 16th May, 1878.

Any person desiring to object to the issue of a
mining lease upon the above application must, within
twenty-eight clear days from the date of such appli-
cation, enter his objection at the Warden's Office at
Ahaura.
218
ERNEST C. KELLING,
Clerk of Warden's Court, Ahaura.

DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership
hitherto existing between JAMES ALEXANDER
BIRD and JOHN CAMERON, as Commission Agents,
under the firm of "Bird, Cameron, and Co.," has
been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 30th
day of March last. All debts due to the late firm
must be paid to the said James Alexander Bird,
whose receipt shall be a sufficient discharge for the
same, and who will satisfy all claims against the late
firm. The business will be continued by the said
James Alexander Bird in his own name in all its
branches.

Dated this 5th day of April, 1878.
J. A. BIRD.
JOHN CAMERON.

Witness to signatures—Michael Hart, Law Stu-
dent, Christchurch. 212

I, the undersigned, hereby make application to
register the Balaklava Quartz-Mining Com-
pany as a Limited Company, under the provisions of
"The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

1. The name of the Company is to be the Balaklava Quartz-
   Mining Company (Limited).
2. The place of operations is at Rainy Creek, in the County
   of Inangahua.
3. The registered office of the Company will be situated at
   Reefton.
4. The nominal capital of the Company is twenty thousand
   pounds, in twenty thousand shares of one pound each, upon
   which nothing is paid up.
5. The number of shares subscribed for is twenty thousand,
   being not less than two-thirds of the entire number of shares in
   the Company.
6. The number of paid-up shares is nil.
7. The amount already paid up is nil.
8. The names, and addresses, and occupations of the share-
   holders, and the number of shares held by each at this date,
   are as follow:—

Edward H. Carton, Rainy Creek, Miner ... No. of
James Clark, Rainy Creek, Mine Manager ... Shares,
Robert Whittem, Reefton, Miner ... 3,375
James Thorburn, Reefton, Miner... 3,625
David Young, Reefton, Mine Manager ... 1,000
Anthony Kater, Reefton, Tinsmith ... 250
John McKay, Kumara, Miner ... 500
John McKenzie, Black's Point, Miner ... 250
Samuel Burr, Boatman's, Machine Manager ... 1,000
Henry Evans, Boatman's, Miner ... 250
George Wright, Black's Point, Miner ... 250
William Stewart, Merrygigs, Miner ... 250
Dougald Matheson, Reefton, Miner ... 125
John Treasure, Rainy Creek, Miner ... 250
John Patton, Crushington, Miner ... 125
Matthew Wynn, Crushington, Blacksmith ... 250
George Wise, Reefton, Sharebroker ... 3,250
Hugh Graham, Rainy Creek, Mine-owner ... 750
Henry Forbes Budge, Reefton, Bootmaker ... 500
John H. Finlay, Reefton, Baker ... 500