In the matter of "The Companies Act, 1882," and the amendments thereof, and in the matter of the voluntary winding-up of the MANAWATU BUTTER, CHEESE, and BACON MANUFACTURING COMPANY (LIMITED).

I HEREBY summon a General Meeting of the shareholders of the above-named company, to be holden in Mr. Linton's auction-rooms, in Palmerston North, on the 23rd day of November, 1885, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of submitting my report, together with an account showing the manner in which the winding-up of the company has been conducted and the property thereof disposed of.

Dated this 22nd day of September, 1885.

C. W. WALKER,

Official Liquidator of the above-named Company.

TAKE notice that the Partnership hitherto existing between JAMES CHARLES YORKE, of Inaha, Journalist, and JOSEPH BRADEN INNES, of Hawera, Printer, carrying on business in copartnership under the style or firm of "Innes and Co.," at Hawera aforesaid, as General Printers, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated this 15th day of September, 1885.

J. C. YORKE.

J. B. INNES.

Witness to signatures of James Charles Yorke and Joseph Braden Innes—H. Caplen, Solicitor, Hawera.

WE, the undersigned JOSEPH BRADEN INNES, of Hawera, in the Provincial District of Taranaki and Colony of New Zealand, Newspaper Proprietor and Printer, and JAMES CHARLES YORKE, of the Inaha, in the County of Hawera and Colony of New Zealand, Journalist and Farmer, certify that we have this day entered into partnership under the clauses relating to special partnership contained in "The Mercantile Law Act, 1880," and declare the particulars following to be true, viz. :-

1. The style of the firm under which the partnership is to be conducted shall be "Innes and Company."

2. The above-mentioned James Charles Yorke is a Special Partner, and resides at Inaha, in the County of Hawera; and the said Joseph Braden Innes is a General Partner, and resides in the Lake Road, Hawera, aforesaid.

3. The amount of capital which such special partner contributes is £1,150, and the amount contributed by the general partner is 1,350, to the common stock.

4. The general nature of the business to be transacted is that of Newspaper Proprietors and Publishers, Printers, and Stationers.

5. The principal place at which such business is to be transacted is at the Star Office, High Street, in the Borough of Hawera aforesaid.

6. The partnership is to commence on Tuesday, the 15th day of September, 1885, and is to terminate on the 14th day of September, 1892.

As witness our hands this 15th day of September, 1885.

J. B. INNES.

J. C. YORKE.

Appeared before me at Hawera, in the Colony of New Zealand, the 15th day of September, 1885, Joseph Braden Innes and James Charles Yorke, the partners signing the above certificate, and did each freely and voluntarily acknowledge and sign the same—William J. Furlong, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand. 502

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MR. THOMAS SHERLOCK GRAHAM has retired from the firm of HEYMANS0N, LOW, AND Co., and the business of the said firm will henceforth be carried on, under the same style, under the management of Mr. W. B. A. MORRISON.

Dated, 1st September, 1885.

M. J. LOW,

D. BEAL,

Trustees and Executors of the Will of the late R. A. Low.

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