FEB. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 259.

SOUTHERN CROSS PETROLEUM COMPANY
(REGISTERED).

I, the undersigned, Henry Haase, hereby make ap-
plication to register the Southern Cross Petro-
leum Company (Registered) under the provisions of
"The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865,"
and the Mining Companies Limited Liability Act
Amendment Acts, 1869 and 1870; and I do solemnly
and sincerely declare that the following statement is,
to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every
particular, viz. :-

1. The name and style of the Company is the Southern Cross
   Petroleum Company (Registered).
2. The place of operations is at Rotokautuku, Waiapu, East
   Coast, North Island, Colony of New Zealand.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is forty-eight
   thousand pounds, in forty-eight thousand shares of one pound
   each.
4. The amount already paid up in cash is two hundred
   pounds sixteen shillings and eightpence, and six thousand
   pounds in partly paid-up shares.
5. The name of the Manager is Henry Haase.
6. The office of the Company is at Gisborne, Poverty Bay,
   North Island, New Zealand.
7. The names and several residences of the shareholders,
   and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as
   follow :-

William Clarke, in trust for subscribers for preliminary
shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company
(Registered), Gisborne, New Zealand
Ropata Wahawaha, Wai-o-matatini
George John Winter, Gisborne, New Zealand
William Henry Tucker, Gisborne, New Zealand
Samuel Pullman Craig, Gisborne, New Zealand
William Maude, Gisborne, New Zealand
Henry Haase, Gisborne, New Zealand
Henry Haase, in trust for William Clarke and the
Southern Cross Petroleum Company (Registered)

No. of
Shares.
21,500
1,000
200
200
100
100
100
24,800

Dated this 14th day of February, 1881.
HENRY HAASE.
Witness to the signature of Henry Haase-Chas.
Gray, J.P.
144

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Extended
Water-race and Sluicing Company (Registered),
for the half-year ended the 22nd January, 1881, in
accordance with section 135 of "The Mining Com-
panies Act, 1872."

Name of Company: The Extended Water-race and Sluicing
Company (Registered).
When formed, and date of registration: 23rd August, 1867.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager:
Naseby, Otago; Lancelot Hore.
Nominal capital: £5,400.
Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: £5,400.
Number of shares in which capital is divided: 270.
Number of shares taken: 270.
Amount of calls made: £5,400.
Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £5,400.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of Company: 9.
Amount of cash in hand: £1 6s.
Whether in operation or not: In operation.
Total amount of dividends declared: £234.
Number of shares unallotted: Nil.
132
LANCELOT HORE,
Manager.

Private Advertisements.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

Between DAVID ROSS LEWERS, Plaintiff, and WIL-
LIAM HENRY CLARKE, Defendant.

NOTICE is hereby given that all that piece of land
containing one acre or thereabouts, being
Suburban Section No. 81, in the Township of Feilding,
and being the whole of the land comprised in certi-
ficate of title, Register-book, Vol. xix., folio 297,
subject to a memorandum of mortgage dated the
second day of March, 1880, No. 3008, to secure £20,
payable on the second day of March, 1881, and in-
terest thereon at the rate of £15 per centum per
annum, has been taken in execution at the suit of the
above-named David Ross Lewers, and will be sold by
public auction, at the platform of the Railway Station
at Feilding, County of Manawatu, on Wednesday,
the sixth day of April now next, at three of the clock
in the afternoon.

That the advertisement of such sale is authorized
by me, Garland William Woon, Sheriff of the Wanga-
nui and Rangitikei District.

The Solicitor for the Execution Creditor is William
Henry Quick, whose address is Featherston Street,
Wellington.

Dated this 21st day of February, 1881.
142
GARLAND WM. WOON,
Sheriff.

I, COLIN MCKENZIE GORDON, Sheriff of the
District of Otago, do hereby give notice that,
under a writ of fieri facias duly issued out of the
Supreme Court at the suit of JOHN FINDLAY, DAVID
FINDLAY, and GEORGE FINDLAY, all of Dunedin,
Timber Merchants, carrying on business in partner-
ship as "Findlay and Company," I have taken in
execution the equity of redemption of JOSEPH
HAMBLETON, of Musselburgh, near Dunedin, Engi-
neer, in all that piece of land situated in the Township
of Musselburgh, in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement thirty-three poles and
seven-tenths of a pole, more or less, being Allotment
numbered eight (8) of Block nine (IX.) on the plan
of the said township, deposited in the Lands Registry
Office at Dunedin; bounded towards the North by
Allotment seven, two hundred and sixty-seven links
and four-tenths of a link; towards the East-north-
east by the Dunedin and Ocean Beach Railway,
seventy-nine links and six-tenths of a link; towards
the South by Allotment nine, two hundred and ninety-
two links and eight-tenths of a link; and towards the
West by Princes Street, seventy-five links and seven-
tenths of a link; which said piece of land is part of
the Suburban Sections marked sixty-nine and seventy,
Block seven, delineated on the public map of the
town district; together with the buildings and
erections thereon: And I hereby also give notice
that I intend to cause the said land to be sold at the
auction-rooms of Messieurs Maclean and Company,
in Dunedin, on the fifth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one, at half-past two o'clock
in the afternoon, unless the debt be sooner paid.

The Solicitor for the Execution Creditors is Mr.
Daniel Douglas Macdonald, of Albert Buildings,
Dunedin.

Dated this first day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one.
140
COLIN McK. GORDON,
Sheriff.

I, COLIN MCKENZIE GORDON, Sheriff of the Dis-
trict of Otago, do hereby give notice that,
under a writ of fieri facias duly issued out of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and South-
land District, at the suit of JAMES MARSHALL, the
younger, of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of
Otago, Merchant, and DANIEL CAMPBELL, of Dunedin
aforesaid, Printer, I have taken in execution the fee-
simple of WILLIAM MURRAY THOMSON, formerly of
Waimea West, in the Provincial District of Nelson,
Settler, but now of parts unknown, in all that parcel
of land containing about 1 rood and 8 poles, more or
less, being part of Section No. 65, Block VI., Town
District, bounded and admeasured as follows: Com-