I, the undersigned, hereby make application to register the Great Western Coal Company (Limited) as a Limited Company under the provisions of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

1. The name of the Company is to be the Great Western Coal Company (Limited).
2. The place of operations is at Orepuki, in the County of Wallace.
3. The registered office of the Company will be situated at Esk Street, Invercargill.
4. The nominal capital of the Company is forty thousand pounds, in forty thousand shares of one pound each.
5. The number of shares subscribed for is forty 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 declared to be four hundred pounds.
8. The name of the Manager is Christopher Basstian, jun.
9. The names, addresses, and occupations of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follow:--

Christopher Basstian, Invercargill, Runholder
Christopher Basstian, Invercargill, Runholder (in trust)
Christopher Basstian, the younger, Invercargill, Commission Agent
Christopher Basstian, the younger, Invercargill, Commission Agent (in trust)
Christopher Basstian, the younger, Invercargill Commission Agent (in trust)
William John Moffet, Invercargill, Merchant
William John Moffet, Invercargill, Merchant (in trust)
Thomas Surman, Invercargill, Brewer
Nicholas Johnson, Invercargill, Commission Agent
James Harvey, Invercargill, Solicitor
Lavington G. Roope, Invercargill, Merchant
Joseph Stock, Invercargill, Merchant
John Petchell, Riverton, Merchant
Leonard Wright Petchell, Riverton, Merchant
Leonard Wright Petchell, Riverton, Merchant (in trust)
Nelson Elliot Griffiths, Orepuki, Miner
Thomas Hamden Escott, Orepuki, Miner
David McGill, Orepuki, Miner
John L. Currie and Thomas Gemmill, Orepuki, Miners...

Dated this 27th day of November, 1882.

CHRISTOPHER BASSTIAN, Jun.,
Manager.

Witness to signature--Robert Manisty, Articled Clerk to James Harvey, Solicitor, Invercargill.

I, Christopher Basstian, the younger, of Invercargill, in the Colony of New Zealand, Commission Agent, do solemnly and sincerely declare that--

1. I am the Manager of the said intended Company.
2. The above statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

CHRISTOPHER BASSTIAN, Jun.

Taken and declared at Invercargill, this 22nd day of November, 1882, before me--J. L. McDonald, J.P.

I, the undersigned, hereby make application to register the Hand of Friendship Gold-Mining Company as a Limited Company under the provisions of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

1. The name of the Company is to be the Hand of Friendship Gold-Mining Company (Limited).

2. The place of operations is at the Thames Gold Fields.

3. The registered office of the Company will be situated at Auckland.

4. The nominal capital of the Company is fifteen thousand pounds, divided into fifteen thousand shares of one pound each.

5. The number of shares subscribed for is fifteen thousand, being 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 name of the Manager is James Stodart.

9. The names, addresses, and occupations of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follow:--

John Chadwick, Auckland, Auctioneer
Robert Charles Greenwood, Auckland, Auctioneer
H. A. Kohn, Auckland, Jeweller
Walter Fraser, Auckland, Settler
James Frater, Auckland, Broker
Gerald Butler Beere, Auckland, Surveyor
Henry Davy, Auckland, Bootmaker
Henry Canham, Auckland, Merchant
James Dickey, Auckland, Ironmonger
Robert C. McDonald, Auckland, Ironmonger
William Pickett, Auckland, Broker
Arthur D. Bennett, Auckland, Solicitor
John Brown, Auckland, Gentleman
Robert Surman, Auckland, Settler
Thomas Evans, Auckland, Settler
Robert Frater, Auckland, Broker
Harlan Page Barber, Auckland, Merchant
Alfred Kidd, Auckland, Hotelkeeper
Aitken Carrick, Auckland, Broker
Edward Waters, Auckland, Confectioner
Allan W. O'Neill, Auckland, Solicitor
John McEffer Shera, Auckland, Merchant
James Stewart, Auckland, Hotelkeeper
Augustus Linabury, Auckland, Draper
Harry Maxfield, Auckland, Grocer
Charles McIndoe, Auckland, Clerk
S. B. Colls, Auckland, Settler
William Hellaby, Auckland, Butcher
John McCabe, Auckland, Gentleman
P. Bourke, Auckland, Agent
Thomas Melville, Auckland, Gentleman
A. M. Williams, Auckland, Chemist
Joseph Newman, Auckland, Broker
Franz Scherff, Auckland, Merchant
John Carr King, Auckland, Agent
Albert Devore, Auckland, Solicitor
J. S. Ralph, Auckland, Settler
John Hudson, Thames, Agent
William Frater, Auckland, Broker
James M. Mennie, Thames, Confectioner
Adam Porter, Thames, Miner
William T. J Bell, Auckland, Insurance Agent
George Moorcraft, Thames, Miner
Henry de Bohun Devereux, Auckland, Gentleman
Arthur M. Beale, Auckland, Bank Clerk
William Burton, Auckland, Banker
Thomas Leigh White, Auckland, Accountant
C. H. Matheson, Auckland, Settler
Robert Charles Carr, Auckland, Auctioneer
Tom Wrigley, Auckland, Mining Agent
Joshua Jackson, Auckland, Broker
William McCullough, Auckland, Journalist
George W. Binney, Auckland, Auctioneer
James Berry Hoyes, Auckland, Settler
Frances Hull, Auckland, Broker
W. H. Metcalfe, Auckland, Agent
William McKinstry, jun., Auckland, Agent
Richard Knibb Davis, Auckland, Agent
Graves Aicken, Auckland, Chemist
James M. Brigham, Auckland, Accountant
David Stewart Cattansch, Auckland, Stationer
Thomas McMaster, Auckland, Draper
John Richard Randerson, Auckland, Mining Agent
James Stodart, Auckland, Mining Agent
Robert Neale, Auckland, Grocer
Neilson Gordon Lennox, Auckland, Stationer
W. L. Mitchell, Auckland, Accountant
James Henry Nicholls, Auckland, Gentleman
Michael Vaughan, Thames, Hotelkeeper
Roderick R. McGregor, Thames, Agent
John Henry Smith, Thames, Ironmonger
Alexander Saunders, Auckland, Broker
Henry Armitage, Auckland, Hatter

Dated this 27th day of November, 1882.

JAMES STODART,
Manager.

Witness to signature--Joseph Newman, J.P.

I, James Stodart, do solemnly and sincerely declare that--

1. I am the Manager of the said intended Company.