NOTICE.

To the Mining Registrar at Arrow of the Mining District of Wakatipu, and all whom it may concern.

RICHARD CHARD, hereby give notice that I intend to bring under section 31 of "The Mines Act, 1877," all my water-races with their tributaries as therein specified. Commencing at a point in Lang's Creek south side of the Kawarau River, and terminating on the flat below the Arrow Bluff. The length of such race is seven miles, the breadth 2 feet 6 inches, the depth 3 feet, the capacity eight Government-heads of water; and held at present under Certificate No. 16812, dated 8th September, 1884, and Certificate No. 16888, dated 18th July, 1885, last renewal.

RICHARD CHARD,

By his Authorized Agent, L. H. PRESTON.

Date and number of miner's right: 22nd February, 1885, No. 51671.

Any person objecting to the granting of this application must lodge his objection in writing at the Warden's Office, at Arrowtown, within fourteen clear days from the date hereof.

Hearing at 11 o'clock on the 14th September, 1885.

H. NELSON FIRTH,

Mining Registrar.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the South Pacific Extended Quartz-Mining 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 South Pacific Extended Quartz-Mining Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 25th August, 1882; 26th October, 1882.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Westport; William Lloyd.

Nominal capital: £36,000.

Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: £18,000, being 10s. per share on 36,000 shares deemed paid at registration.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 36,000.

Number of shares taken: 34,360.

Amount of calls made: £1,002 3s. 4d.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £18,760 11s. 1d., including £18,000 deemed paid up at registration.

Number of shareholders at time of registration: 17.

Amount of cash in hand: £37 13s. 4d.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: 1,640.

WILLIAM LLOYD,

Manager.

Westport, 25th July, 1885.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Maryborough Gold-Mining and Quartz-Crushing Company (Limited), Macetown, for the half-year ending the 28th April, 1885, in accordance with section 135 of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

Name of company: The Maryborough Gold-Mining and Quartz-Crushing Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 10th February, 1881.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Dunedin; William Parker Street.

Nominal capital: £19,200.

Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: Nil.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 19,200.

Number of shares taken: 19,200.

Amount of calls made: £3,600.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £13,200.

Number of shareholders at time of registration: 26.

Amount of cash in hand: £12 15s.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: £1,440.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

W. PARKER STREET,

Legal Manager.

Dunedin, 10th August, 1885.

4. The nominal capital of the company is twelve thousand pounds, in twenty-four thousand shares of ten shillings each.

5. The number of shares subscribed for is nineteen thousand, being more than two-thirds of the entire number of shares in the company.

6. The number of shares paid up is nil.

7. The amount already paid up is nil.

8. The name of the Manager is Dennis Gilmore MacDonnell.

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

William Littlejohn, Paeroa, Contractor .. 3,500
Robert Tapley, Karangahake, Miner .. 3,000
David Snodgrass, Paeroa, Baker .. 2,000
John Byrne, Karangahake, Miner .. 2,000
Thomas M. Humphreys, Paeroa, Agent .. 1,500
George Norman McGruer, Karangahake, Mine Manager .. 1,000
James Barrett, Paeroa, Butcher .. 1,000
Alexander Hogg, Paeroa, Storekeeper .. 500
Alice K. Law, Paeroa, Domestic Duties .. 500
Adam Porter, Auckland, Coachbuilder .. 1,000
Aitken Carrick, Auckland, Sharebroker .. 1,000
Robert Charles Greenwood, Auckland, Auctioneer .. 750
Franz Scherff, Auckland, Merchant .. 500
Dennis Gilmore MacDonnell, Auckland, Legal Manager .. 550
James Henry Smith, Auckland, Clerk .. 100
William Humphrey Jones, Auckland, Broker .. 100

19,000

Dated this 14th day of August, 1885.

D. G. MACDONNELL,

Manager.

Witness to signature—J. W. Nichol, jun.

I, Dennis Gilmore MacDonnell, 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."

D. G. MACDONNELL.

Taken before me, this 14th day of August, 1885—Frederick L. Prime, J.P.

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

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

2. The place of intended operations is at Browning's Pass, in the Provincial District of Canterbury.

3. The registered office of the company will be situated at No. 179, Hereford Street, in the City of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury.

4. The nominal capital of the company is twenty-six thousand pounds, in twenty-six thousand shares of one pound each.

5. The number of fully paid-up shares is nil.

6. The amount already paid up is ten thousand nine hundred and ninety-four pounds three shillings.

7. The name of the Manager is Richard Hill Fisher.

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

James Henry Johnson, Christchurch, Clerk .. 25
Hannah Midgley, 192, South Belt, Christchurch, Saleswoman .. 25
Christopher McWhannell, Dunstable House, Christchurch, Clerk .. 25
Frederick William Mawer, North Belt, Christchurch, Hairdresser .. 5
William Bickerton, Christchurch, Warehouseman .. 100
Alfred Samuel George, 214, Colombo Street, Christchurch, Photographer .. 100
Samuel Brown, Dunstable House, Christchurch, Draper .. 50
Hugh Marnock McClelland, Kimberley, Farmer .. 25
Edward Melton Parrott, Dunstable House, Christchurch, Draper .. 25
Edmund Manuel Paul, Gloucester Street East, Christchurch, Draper .. 25
Archibald Morgan, 182, Worcester Street, Christchurch, Serjeant-major .. 200

I, the undersigned, hereby make application to register the Karangahake Welcome Gold-Mining Company as a Limited Company, under the provisions of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872," and Amendment Act, 1883.

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

2. The place of operations is at Karangahake, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

3. The registered office of the company will be situated at the New Zealand Insurance Company's Buildings, Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland and Colony of New Zealand.