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STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company (Limited), for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1885, in accordance with section 135 of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872.”

Name of company: The Southern Cross Petroleum Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 2nd April, 1881.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: 5, Chancery Lane, Christchurch; William Henry Harvey.

Nominal capital: £48,000.

Amount of paid-up shares given to shareholders: £1,000.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 48,000.

Number of shares taken: 48,000.

Amount of calls paid: £30,795 8s. 7d.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £30,795 8s. 7d.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 7.

Amount of cash in hand: £76 9s. 7d.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

W. H. HARVEY,

Manager.

Christchurch, 30th July, 1885.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Orepuki Coal and Shale Company (Limited), in accordance with section 135 of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872.”

Name of company: The Orepuki Coal and Shale Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 25th January, 1881; 22nd February, 1881.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Esk Street, Invercargill; William Todd.

Nominal capital: £15,000.

Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: £7,500.

Number of shares in which capital is divided: 30,000.

Number of shares taken: 30,000.

Amount of calls made: £5,250.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £5,250.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 9.

Amount of cash in hand: £2,250.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

WILLIAM TODD,

Legal Manager.

Invercargill, 1st June, 1885.

To the Mining Registrar at Cromwell of the Otago Goldfields Mining District, and to all other persons whom it may concern.

TAKE notice that it is intended to construct a Water-race and divert water for machinery and irrigation purposes, commencing at a point in Crookburn or Eight-mile Creek, Lower Hawea District, and terminating on the farm of the applicant, situate in Block VII., Tarras District.

Length of race: Two miles or thereabouts.

Mean breadth: 1½ feet.

Mean depth: 1½ feet.

Quantity of water proposed to divert: Two Government-heads.

Time required for construction: Already constructed.

Term for which license required: Fifteen years.

Dated at Cromwell, this 27th day of July, 1885.

DUNCAN MACKELLAR,

By his Agent, SPENCE H. TURTON.

Private Advertisements.

EDUCATION RESERVES.—TENDERS FOR LEASING.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the School Commissioners for the Wellington Provincial District, Chamber of Commerce Buildings, Lambton Quay, Wellington, up to and including Monday, the 7th day of September, 1885, for leasing Education Reserves, at per annum, for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one years, from the 1st day of September, 1885, unless otherwise specified in the schedule hereinafter mentioned.

Separate tenders for each period.

Every tender must be accompanied by a remittance of the amount of the first year’s rent, or, when more than one tender by the same person for the same reserve, the amount of the first year’s rent of the longest period applied for.

A schedule of the reserves to be let is exhibited at every Post Office in the Wellington Provincial District, and draft leases may be seen at the Post Offices at Wanganui, Tura-kina, Marton, Carnarvon, Palmerston, Foxton, Woodville, Masterton, and Featherston, and at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington.

Envelopes enclosing tenders must be marked outside “Tender for Education Reserve,” and sent through the post, addressed to the undersigned.

The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted, and no further announcement will be made in the public papers.

By order.

W. H. WARREN,

Secretary and Treasurer for Education Reserves.

Wellington, 6th August, 1885.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION BY THE WAIROA (SOUTH) ROAD BOARD, COUNTY OF MANUKAU.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in the Wairoa (South) Road Board by “The Counties Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1882,” “The Counties Act, 1883,” and “The Impounding Act, 1885,” the Wairoa (South) Road Board do hereby abolish as a public pound those premises situated within the boundaries of the Wairoa (South) Highway District known as Mr. Henry Henderson’s Stockyards, near the junction of the Main and East Roads, in the said district, as notified in the Provincial Government Gazette No. 21, of date the 4th September, 1874; and the Wairoa (South) Road Board do hereby appoint, in lieu thereof, those premises situated within the boundaries of the said district being part of Lot No. 1, the property of Henry Henderson, near the junction of the Main and East Roads, in the said district, to be and be used as a public pound for the purpose of “The Impounding Act, 1885.”

Dated this 4th day of July, 1885.

CHARLES WILLIAM STEPHENS,

Chairman, Wairoa (South) Road Board, County of Manukau.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us, the undersigned GEORGE EDWARD GORDON RICHARDSON and GEORGE WALKER, as Sheep-farmers, at Nuhaka, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, under the firm of “Walker and Company,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent; and that all debts due and owing to or by the late firm will be received and paid by the said George Walker, by whom the business will in future be carried on.

As witness our hands, this 25th day of July, 1885.

G. E. G. RICHARDSON.

GEORGE WALKER.

Witness to both signatures—A. J. Cotterill, Solicitor, Napier.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership which has for some time past been carried on by JOHN REA and WILLIAM MITCHELL, under the firm of “Mitchell and Rea,” at Molesworth Street, in the City of Wellington, in the trade or business of Coachbuilders, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to the firm will be received by the said John Rea, by whom all liabilities of the partnership will be discharged.

As witness our hands.

WILLIAM MITCHELL.

JOHN REA.

Witness to the signature of John Rea—E. G. Jellicoe, Solicitor, Wellington.

Witness to the signature of William Mitchell—Robert Orr, Managing Clerk to W. T. L. Travers, Solicitor, Wellington.

GEOFFREY SHERBORNE CLAYTON, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1884, and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London, 1883, registered under the Imperial Act, now residing at Rangiora, hereby give notice that I have this day deposited my diplomas with the Registrar of the Christchurch District, and that I intend to apply to be registered under the New Zealand Medical Act in one month from the date hereof.

GEOFFREY SHERBORNE CLAYTON.

Rangiora, 30th July, 1885.

“THE FOREIGN COMPANIES ACT, 1884.”

IN compliance with the provisions of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884,” notice is hereby given that the Victoria Insurance Company (Limited), having its head office in Melbourne, now carrying on business in the Colony of New Zealand and elsewhere, has its head office for the said colony in Princes Street, Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, where legal proceedings may be served upon it and to which notices may be addressed or given.

Dated this 20th day of July, 1885.

J. W. BRINDLEY,

Resident Secretary and Attorney for said Company.