MAR. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 355

Nominal capital: £6,000.
Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: Nil.
Number of shares in which capital is divided: 20,000.
Number of shares taken: 17,401.
Amount of calls made £1,000.
Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £6,000.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of Company: 108.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Whether in operation or not: Not in operation.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Number of shares unallotted: 2,599.

182
JOSEPH FREDERICK WATSON,
Manager.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Homeward
Bound Gold-Mining Company (Limited), for the
half-year ending the 30th December, 1881, in accord-
ance with section 135 of "The Mining Companies
Act, 1872."
Name of Company: The Homeward Bound Gold-Mining
Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 7th March, 1878.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager:
Dunedin; Joseph Frederick Watson.
Nominal capital: £14,000.
Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: Nil.
Number of shares in which capital is divided: 14,400.
Number of shares taken: 14,400.
Amount of calls made: £5,400.
Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £12,200.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of Company: 72.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Whether in operation or not: In operation.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

183
JOSEPH FREDERICK WATSON,
Manager.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Premier Gold-
Mining Company (Limited), for the half-year
ending the 30th December, 1881, in accordance with
section 135 of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."
Name of Company: The Premier Gold-Mining Company
(Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 16th August, 1880.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager:
Dunedin, Otago: Joseph Frederick Watson.
Nominal capital: £6,000.
Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: Nil.
Number of shares in which capital is divided: 12,000.
Number of shares taken: 12,000.
Amount of calls made £600.
Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £3,000.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of Company: 9.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Whether in operation or not: In operation.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

184
JOSEPH FREDERICK WATSON,
Manager.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Blue Peter
Gold-Mining Company (Limited), for the half-
year ending the 31st December, 1881, in accordance
with section 135 of "The Mining Companies Act,
1872."
Name of Company: The Blue Peter Gold-Mining Company
(Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 19th August, 1881;
14th September, 1881.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager:
Auckland; Frederick Ring.
Nominal capital: £15,000.
Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: Nil.
Number of shares in which capital is divided: 15,000.
Number of shares taken: 15,000.
Amount of calls made: Nil.
Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £120.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of Company: 11.
Amount of cash in hand: £9 1s. 4d.
Whether in operation or not: In operation.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

179
FRED. RING,
Manager.

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

1. The name and style of the Company is to be the Western
   Quartz-Mining Company (Limited).
2. The place of intended operations is at Boatman's, in the
   County of Inangahua, Colony of New Zealand.
3. The registered office of the Company will be situated at
   Bridge Street, Reefton, in the county and colony aforesaid.
4. The nominal capital of the Company is twenty-four
   thousand pounds, in twenty-four thousand shares of one pound
   each, of which the sum of ten shillings per share is agreed to be
   considered as paid up.
5. The number of shares subscribed for is twenty-four thou-
   sand, being the entire number of shares in the Company.
6. The name of the Manager is Thomas Lee.
7. The names, addresses, and occupations of the shareholders,
   and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as
   follow:—
   No of
   Shares.
   Morris Levy, Reefton, Mining Speculator ... 4,250
   Lazarus Raphael, Stafford, Merchant ... 1,000
   David Young, Reefton, Miner ... 3,500
   Samuel Barr, Reefton, Mining Speculator ... 4,250
   Edwin Ashton, Greymouth, Mining Speculator ... 4,250
   Edward Soloman, Reefton, Mining Speculator ... 1,000
   Thomas Lee (in trust for the Company), Reefton, Sharebroker ... 5,750
   24,000

Dated this 21st day of February, 1882.
THOMAS LEE,
Manager.
Witness to signature—R. J. Scoltock.

I, Thomas Lee, do solemnly and sincerely declare
that—

1. I am the Manager of the said intended Com-
   pany.
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, 1866."
   Taken before me, at Reefton, this 21st day of
   February, 1882—G. C. Bowman, J.P.
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Private Advertisements.

TAKAKA TRAMWAY.

THE Takaka Tramway Company (Limited) intends
applying to the Governor in Council for an
order authorizing the construction of a tramway at
Takaka.
The proposed tramway is 8 miles and 25 chains
long, and is to be constructed of iron rails laid upon
wooden sleepers from the Waitapu Wharf to the
cross road between East Takaka Church and the
Takaka River.
The gauge of the line is to be 2 feet 6 inches, and
the traffic to be worked by locomotive steam-engines.
The line goes through the village or township of
Waitapu, but no other township or city, and from
thence up the valley of the Takaka River, through
part of the district called Takaka.
The times and places at which the deposit under
Part II., Third Schedule, of "The Tramways Act,
1872," will be made are the 17th day of March,
1882, and the Supreme Court Office, Nelson, the
Courthouse, Takaka, and the office of the Hon. the
Minister for Public Works, Wellington.
Printed copies of the draft order when deposited,
and of the order when made, will be obtained at the
Courthouse, Takaka.
206
PITT AND MOORE,
Solicitors for the Takaka Tramway
Company (Limited).