Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1475

Mining Notices.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Wealth of Nations Extended Quartz-Mining Company (Limited), for the half-year ending the 10th December, 1885, in accordance with section 135 of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872.”

Name of company: The Wealth of Nations Extended Quartz-Mining Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 12th April, 1882.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Crushington, Inangahua District; William Rae, Greymouth.

Nominal capital: £32,500.

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

Number of shares in which capital is divided: 32,500.

Number of shares taken: 32,500.

Amount of calls made: £4,875.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £28,600.

Number of shareholders at time of registration: 34.

Amount of calls in hand: None.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amounts of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

WILLIAM RAE,
Legal Manager.

Greymouth, 10th December, 1885. 652

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

1. The name of the company is to be the Dubbo 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.

4. The nominal capital of the company is twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, in fifty thousand shares of ten shillings sterling each.

5. The number of shares subscribed for is fifty thousand, being 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 Roderick McDonald Scott.

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 Edward Banks, Thames, Agent .. .. 18,308
Louis Melhose, Thames, Mining Agent .. .. 4,000
James McCosh Clark, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 2,500
Thomas Morrin, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 2,500
John Chambers, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 2,500
Graves Aickin, Auckland, Chemist .. .. 2,000
Roderick McDonald Scott, Auckland, Mining Agent 1,500
John Moginie Chambers, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 1,000
Henry Thomson Gorrie, Auckland, Accountant .. .. 1,000
Alfred Kidd, Auckland, Hotelkeeper .. .. 1,000
Arthur Heather, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 1,000
Benjamin Gilmore, Auckland, Agent .. .. 1,000.
Alfred Isaacs, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 1,000
Thomas Herbert Biggs, Auckland, Settler .. .. 1,000
Donald John McLeod, Auckland, Insurance Secretary 1,000
E. Mitchelson, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 1,000
Edmund Bell, Auckland, Architect .. .. 1,000
Alexander Knight, Auckland, Warehouseman .. .. 750
Charles Henry Osmond, Auckland, Agent .. .. 692
Thomas Aitken Dunlop, Thames, Mine Manager .. .. 500
John Henry Smith, Thames, Agent .. .. 1,000
Samuel Turtle, Thames, Mining Agent .. .. 500
Henry Charles Choyce, Auckland, Draper .. .. 500
Alfred Greatbatch Gover, Auckland, Solicitor .. .. 500
John Wiseman, Auckland, Merchant .. .. 500
John Felton Heighway, Thames, Manager.. .. .. 500
Frederick D. Woodruffe, Auckland, Draper .. .. 500
William McCullough, Auckland, Printer .. .. 250
Richard Spratt, Auckland, Mining Agent .. .. 250
Henry Green, Auckland, Agent .. .. 250

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50,000

Dated this 7th day of December, 1885.

R. McDONALD SCOTT,
Manager.

Witness to signature—W. Boon.

I, Roderick McDonald Scott, 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.”

R. McDONALD SCOTT.

Taken before me, this 7th day of December, 1885—D. B. McDonald, J.P. 654

I, WALTER HISLOP, of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand, Manager of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That the liability of the members is limited.

2. That the capital of the company is £125,000, divided into 25,000 shares of £5 each.

3. That the number of shares issued is 21,669.

4. That calls to the amount of £1 2s. 6d. per share have been made, under which the sum of £24,377 12s. 6d. has been received.

5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates under administration is £51 12s. 8d.

6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates under administration is £16 5s. 9d.

7. That the amount of the balance held to the credit of estates under administration is £35 6s. 11d.

8. That the liabilities of the company on the 1st day of November last were: Debts owing to sundry persons by the company, namely, on simple contracts, £14,101 11s. 1d.; on estimated liabilities, £100.

9. That the assets of the company on that day were: Bills of exchange and promissory notes, £1,515 13s. 9d.; cash at bankers, £2,319 3s. 4d.; other securities and moneys owing to the company, £15,749 10s. 11d.; and other assets, £19,376 12s. 1d.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

WALTER HISLOP.

Declared at Dunedin, this 7th day of December, 1885, before me—William Isaac, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand. 666

CHRISTCHURCH GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

PUBLIC NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that RICHARD HILL FISHER has been appointed the Public Officer of the above company, and FRANCIS JAMES SMITH the Substitute Public Officer; and that the company’s office at No. 179, Hereford Street, Christchurch, is the place at which notices, instruments, and legal documents can and should be served, or delivered to or on the company.

W. BRICE,
W. F. WARNER,} Directors.

Christchurch, 11th December, 1885. 665

HAWKE’S BAY GOLD-MINING PROSPECTING ASSOCIATION (LIMITED).

A GENERAL Meeting of the above-named association will be held at the Town Hall, Hastings, on Monday, the 28th day of December, 1885, at 8 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of considering the final accounts of the association as prepared by the Liquidator.

Wm. D. IRELAND,
Liquidator. 565

WILLIAM TELL GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

BALANCE-SHEET for the Half-year ending 4th November, 1885.

CAPITAL ACCOUNT.

£ s. d.
1885.
Nov. 4. To 24,000 shares at £1 per share £24,000 0 0
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1884.
Sept. 18. By Paid-up capital, as per registration of company .. 12,000 0 0
1885.
May 20. Calls (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th) .. 850 0 0
Nov. 4. Calls (11th, 12th) .. 200 0 0
Balance uncalled capital .. 10,950 0 0
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£24,000 0 0