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STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Minerva Petroleum Company (No Liability), for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1886, in accordance with section 135 of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872.”

Name of company: The Minerva Petroleum Company (No Liability).

When formed, and date of registration: 23rd March, 1885.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Gisborne; Francis James Piesse.

Nominal capital: £50,000.

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

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 50,000.

Number of shares taken: 10,550.

Amount of calls made: £923 2s. 6d.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £900 0s. 2d.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 20.

Amount of cash in hand: £99 18s. 4d.

Whether in operation or not: Not working at present.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: 39,450.

F. J. PIESSE,
Manager.

Gisborne, 1st July, 1886.
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STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Christchurch Gold-mining Company (Limited), in accordance with section 135 of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872.”

Name of company: Christchurch Gold-mining Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 28th August, 1885.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Hereford Street, Christchurch; Richard Hill Fisher.

Nominal capital: £26,000.

Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: £10,500, being 10s. per share on 21,000 shares deemed paid at registration.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 26,000.

Number of shares taken: 26,000.

Amount of calls made: £1,750.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £12,250, including £10,250 deemed paid up at registration.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 177.

Amount of cash in hand: £181 7s. 1d.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

R. HILL FISHER,
Manager.

Christchurch, 30th June, 1886.
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Private Advertisements.

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 moneys paid on account of estates under administration is £26 9s. 3d.

7. That the amount of the balance held to the credit of estates under administration is £25 3s. 5d.

8. That the liabilities of the company on the 1st day of May last were: Debts owing to sundry persons by the company, namely, on simple contracts, £13,546 8s. 2d.; on estimated liabilities, £100.

9. That the assets of the company on that day were: Bills of bankers, £4,241 0s. 8d.; other securities and moneys owing to the company, £13,929 14s.; other assets, £19,711 19s. 3d.

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 1st day of July, 1886, before me—A. Bartleman, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.
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IN THE NELSON DISTRICT COURT, HOLDEN AT NELSON.

In the matter of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872,” and the several Acts amending the same, and in the matter of the Gorge Gold-mining Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that, in respect of the said company, the Schedule required by section 108 of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872,” is open in my office in Trafalgar Street, Nelson, for inspection by the contributors to and creditors of the said company, and that the claims mentioned in the said Schedule will, after the lapse of twenty-one days from the publication of this notice, be paid at my said office.

Dated at Nelson, this 1st day of July, 1886.

A. D. BAYFEILD,
Liquidator.

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In the matter of a Bill intituled “The Wairau Gas Company (Limited) Act, 1886.”

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended to present a petition to the General Assembly of New Zealand, at the present session, praying for leave to introduce a Bill to be intituled “The Wairau Gas Company (Limited) Act, 1886,” to authorize the said company to purchase the Blenheim Gasworks, and to open and break up, under the superintendence of the Corporation of the Borough of Blenheim, the soil and pavements, streets and roads, within the Borough of Blenheim; to break up bridge-sewers, drains, or sewers; and to erect pillars and lamps; and to lay down and place pipes, conduits, service-pipes; and to make and to do other works necessary or expedient for continuing to supply and to extend the supply of gas to the Borough of Blenheim, and to make and construct other works for supplying and extending the supply of gas to the said borough. It is also intended by the said Bill to take powers to the said company to contract with the said Corporation, or with any person or persons therein, for supplying gas or letting meters to them or any of them, and to enter upon buildings to ascertain the quantities of gas consumed, and sue for the recovery of rents for gas supplied; and to cut off and take away the supply of gas, and to enter upon buildings to take away gas-pipes, on non-payment of such rents; and to impose penalties for the wilful destruction of the company’s property.

Copies of the proposed Bill will be deposited in the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders forthwith.

Dated this seventh day of July, 1886.

SINCLAIR AND McCALLUM,
Solicitors in the matter of the said Bill.

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GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

SEADOWN WATER-SUPPLY DISTRICT.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and the Acts amending the same, it is hereby publicly notified that the Geraldine County Council purpose taking certain lands, under the provisions of the above Acts, for the purpose of the construction of the headworks and race for the Seadown water-supply, being parts of Rural Sections 21122, 10454, 12448, 9854, 9855, and 15657, in the County of Geraldine, and as the same is more particularly delineated on plans to be seen at my office, Strathallan Street, Timaru, and at Mr. I. L. Morris’s Store, Pleasant Point.

All persons affected by the construction of the proposed works are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the execution thereof, and to lodge the same with me not later than Saturday, the 12th August, 1886.

F. W. STUBBS,
Clerk, Geraldine County Council.

Timaru, 29th June, 1886.
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In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882,” and in the matter of the Hokianga Saw-mill Company (Limited).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the above-named company, duly convened and held at the Terminus Hotel, Picton, on the 5th day of July, 1886, the following extraordinary resolution was duly passed:—

Resolved, That the following extraordinary resolution be passed, namely, “That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the shareholders that the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.”

It was further resolved, “That, for the purpose of winding up the company, John Milne, of Auckland, and John Henry Dalton, of Koromiko, Picton, be appointed Liquidators.”

J. H. DALTON,
Chairman.

Picton, 5th July, 1886.
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