Mining Notices.

I, the undersigned, hereby make application to register the Rose Gold-mining Company as a Limited Company, under the provisions of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872," and amendment Acts thereof.

1. The name of the company is to be the Rose 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 ten thousand pounds sterling, in twenty thousand shares of ten shillings sterling each.
5. The number of shares subscribed for is twenty 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 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:—

Edwin Rogers, Auckland, Gentleman .. 3,100
Lawrence D. Nathan, Auckland, Merchant .. 1,300
Alfred E. Isaacs, Auckland, Merchant .. 650
James John Marshall, Auckland, Contractor .. 650
William Snodgrass, Paeroa, Miner .. 3,900
David Snodgrass, Paeroa, Baker .. 2,600
Thomas Snodgrass, Paeroa, Baker .. 1,950
John McWilliams, Mackytown, Miner .. 1,300
Thomas Simon, Thames, Amalgamator .. 650
John F. Heighway, Thames, Engineer .. 650
C. B. O'Reilly, Thames, Engineer .. 650
James Russell, Thames, Engineer .. 650
David W. Pitkethley, Thames, Engineer .. 650
Robert Stackpole, Thames, Miner .. 650
Joseph Floyd, Thames, Miner .. 650

20,000

Dated this 31st day of December, 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,
Manager.

Taken before me, this 31st day of December, 1885—

Frederick L. Prime, J.P.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Golden Point Gold-mining Company (Limited), for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1885, in accordance with section 135 of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

Name of company: The Golden Point Gold-mining Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 18th September, 1878; 15th November, 1878.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Greymouth; G. Perotti.

Nominal capital: £24,000.

Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: £12,000.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 24,000.

Number of shares taken: 24,000.

Amount of calls made: £7,000.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £19,000.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 11.

Amount of cash in hand: Nil.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

G. PEROTTI,
Manager.

Greymouth, 31st December, 1885.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Dauntless Extended Gold-mining Company (Limited), for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1885, in accordance with section 135 of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

Name of company: The Dauntless Extended Gold-mining Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 12th July, 1877; 21st August, 1877.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Greymouth; G. Perotti.

Nominal capital: £24,000.

Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: £19,200.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 24,000.

Number of shares taken: 24,000.

Amount of calls made: £3,000.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £22,200.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 8.

Amount of cash in hand: 9s. 2d.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: £100.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

G. PEROTTI,
Manager.

Greymouth, 31st December, 1885.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO BRING WATER-RACES UNDER SECTION 31 OF "MINES ACT, 1877."

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

WE, LAWRENCE D. MANSON and JOHN MONCRIEFF, do hereby give notice that we intend to bring under section 31 of "The Mines Act, 1877," our water-races and their tributaries, held by us under original license, as follows:

One sluice-head from a creek adjoining Deep Creek, Kawarau, on Nevis Bluff side; License No. 1865, dated 12th November, 1871; race, 200 yards long. Two extra sluice-heads from Deep Creek, Kawarau; License No. 1494; dated 12th November, 1872. Two sluice-heads from Deep Creek, Kawarau; License No. 1493, dated 12th November, 1873; this race being four miles long: the whole of the races being combined: and terminating at our claim on the south bank of Kawarau River, near Gibbston, Kawarau. The total carrying capacity of the said races being five sluice-heads. Lost renewals of above licenses, 12th November, 1885; number and date of miners' rights, 51636, 3rd January, 1885, and 51670, 14th February, 1885.

LAWRENCE D. MANSON,
JOHN MONCRIEFF,
(By their Agent, JAMES F. HEALEY.)

Hearing at the Warden's Court, held at Arrowtown, at 11 a.m., on the 10th day of February, 1886.

H. NELSON FIRTH,
Mining Registrar.

In the matter of "The Foreign Companies Act, 1884."

NOTICE is hereby given that the Hamburg-Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company of Hamburg has discontinued to do business in New Zealand; and it is also further notified that the business of the said company in New Zealand has been disposed of to the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand as from this day at 4 p.m.; and a continuation of the patronage given the Hamburg-Magdeburg Company is solicited for the Equitable Insurance Association.

WILLIAM GODFREY NEILL,
Public Officer and Attorney for Hamburg-Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company.

Dunedin, 30th December, 1885.

Private Advertisements.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JAMES SAUNDERS, JAMES BROWSE GILBERD, and JOHN BEATSON, as Soap and Candle Manufacturers at Awatoto, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, under the firm of "Saunders, Gilberd, and Company," is dissolved as from the 1st day of January, 1886. The business will for the future be carried on by the said James Saunders and James Browse Gilberd in partnership, under the same style of "Saunders, Gilberd, and Company;" and all debts owing to the late firm are to be paid to the said James Saunders and James Browse Gilberd, by whom all the liabilities of the late firm will be discharged.

Dated this 4th day of January, 1886.

JAMES SAUNDERS.
JAMES B. GILBERD.
JOHN BEATSON.

Witness to the signatures of the said James Saunders, James Browse Gilberd, and John Beatson—W. A. Carnell, Law Clerk, Napier.