APRIL 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 531

Mining Notices.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CONSTRUCT WATER-RACE.

To the Mining Registrar at Kanieri, and all other persons whom it may concern.

TAKE notice that it is intended to construct a water-race and divert water for mining purposes, commencing at a point on the right-hand branch of Kanieri River, one mile above Benard’s Creek, taking from it ten heads of water, crossing Benard’s Creek and taking therefrom four heads of water, then crossing McGregor’s Creek and taking from it three heads of water, and terminating at applicants’ extended claim, situated between the right-hand branch of the Kanieri River and Parnel’s Creek.

The length of such race is four miles or thereabouts, and its intended course is north and south.

The estimated time for construction and completion is three years,

The mean depth is 3 feet, and the mean breadth 4 feet, and it is intended to divert twenty Government-heads of water.

JAMES EVANS.
ANTONIO ZALA.
JOHN EMANUELD.
ALBERTO ISEPPI.
CELESTINO STROZZI.

Date and number of miners’ rights: 28th October, 1884, No. 52935; 15th September, 1884, No. 53307; 5th August, 1884, No. 47775; 24th March, 1885, No. 53574; 24th March, 1885, No. 53575.

Dated at Kanieri, this 24th day of March, 1885.

All objections to the above application must be lodged in writing at the Warden’s Office at Kanieri within thirty clear days from the date hereof.

Hearing at 11 o’clock on the 11th May, 1885.

M. F. SOUTH,
Mining Registrar.

Warden’s Office, Hokitika, 24th March, 1885. 201

To the Mining Registrar at Cromwell of the Otago Gold-fields Mining District.

TAKE notice that it is intended to construct a Water-race and divert water for gold-mining or irrigation purposes, commencing at a point in Poison Creek, about three-fourths of a mile distant, above the main road from Cromwell to Wanaka, and terminating on the east bank of the Clutha River, opposite Sandy Point, taking up two small creeks on its course.

Length of race: Two and a half miles or thereabouts.
Mean breadth: 2 feet.
Depth: 1½ feet.
Quantity of water proposed to divert: Four Government-heads.
Time required for construction: Already constructed.
Term for which license required: Fifteen years.
Dated at Cromwell, this 22nd day of April, 1885.

JOHN VLIETSTRA,
By his Solicitor, SPENCER TURTON.

Received at the office of the Mining Registrar, at Cromwell, this 24th day of April, 1885, at ten minutes past the hour of ten in the forenoon.

JAMES FLEMING,
Mining Registrar. 224

THE GORGE GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary meeting of Shareholders in this company, held on the 24th instant, it was decided to increase the capital of the company by the issue of 1,500 new shares, of the nominal value of £1 each, but upon which 13s. per share will be considered as paid up, the balance being payable—2s. per share on application, and 2s. on allotment, and the remainder as required under the rules of the company.

A. D. BAYFEILD,
Manager. 217

Nelson, 25th April, 1885.

WILLIAM TELL GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE.—At a meeting of Directors of the above company, held on the 17th instant, CAMILLE MALFROY was appointed Manager, vice J. J. Crofts, resigned.

P. HEALY,
} Directors.
P. MORAN,

Ross, 21st April, 1885. 218

THE WESTPORT COLLIERY COMPANY (LIMITED), IN LIQUIDATION.

A General Meeting of the Westport Colliery Company (Limited) will be held at the offices of the Westport Coal Company (Limited), Vogel Street, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 3rd June, 1885, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the Liquidator’s account of the winding-up of the company and the disposal of the property of the company, and of hearing any explanation the Liquidator may have to make in connection with the same.

W. H. DICKSON,
Liquidator. 216

I, the undersigned, hereby make application to register the Bulmer Creek Gold-Mining Company as a Limited Company, under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872,” and amendments thereof.

1. The name of the company is to be the Bulmer Creek Gold-Mining Company (Limited).

2. The place of intended operations is at Bulmer Creek, in the District of Owen, in the County of Inangahua, in the Colony of New Zealand.

3. The registered office of the company will be situated in Nelson, in the County of Waimea, Colony of New Zealand.

4. The nominal capital of the company is twenty-four thousand pounds, in twenty-four thousand shares of one pound each, upon each of which the sum of ten shillings per share is considered to be 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 of capital considered to be paid up is twelve thousand pounds.

8. The name of the Manager is Richard Reeves.

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

No. of Shares.

John Pratt, Nelson, Butcher .. .. .. 313
Henry J. Goss, Nelson, Grocer .. .. .. 1,000
Joseph Polglase, Nelson, Nurseryman .. .. .. 312
Johnson V. Ellery, Owen, Miner .. .. .. 500
Charles Noble, Nelson, Baker .. .. .. 1,125
G. Marshall, Nelson, Gardener .. .. .. 500
Thomas H. Shone, Nelson, Cabinetmaker .. .. .. 187
H. Whiting, Nelson, Blacksmith .. .. .. 1,125
Joseph Stanton, Nelson, Grocer .. .. .. 375
George Aldridge, Nelson, Miner .. .. .. 375
Mathew Byrne, Reefton, Mineowner .. .. .. 500
Fred. H. House, Nelson, Salesman .. .. .. 125
Frank Healey, Nelson, Salesman .. .. .. 1,125
William Snow, Nelson, Tailor .. .. .. 250
J. E. Hounsell, Nelson, Bookseller .. .. .. 250
T. Shone, Nelson, Cabinetmaker .. .. .. 250
John Stanton, Nelson, Composer .. .. .. 500
J. C. Moutray, Nelson, Engineer .. .. .. 1,375
Moutray and Crosbie, Nelson, Engineers .. .. .. 1,875
R. M. Crosbie, Nelson, Engineer .. .. .. 250
B. S. Chisholm, Nelson, Grocer .. .. .. 187
Annie Gandin, Nelson, Housekeeper .. .. .. 250
F. C. Pettit, Nelson, Grocer .. .. .. 63
C. Bulmer, Owen, Miner .. .. .. 5,375
John McDowell, Owen, Miner .. .. .. 1,375
Cordelia Polglase, Nelson, Spinster .. .. .. 250
Joseph Edwards, Nelson, Carpenter .. .. .. 63
Alfred Shone, Nelson, Carpenter .. .. .. 125
Richard Reeves, Nelson, Agent, in trust for the company .. .. .. .. .. 4,000

24,000

Dated this 8th day of April, 1885.

RICHARD REEVES,
Manager.

Witness to signature—S. Jeff Reeves, Clerk, Nelson.

I, Richard Reeves, do solemnly and sincerely declare that—

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

2. The foregoing 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.”

RICHARD REEVES.

Taken before me, at Nelson, this 8th day of April, 1885—
Robert Levien, J.P. 214