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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 20th December, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court, to be held at Whanganui, in the District of Whanganui, on the 24th day of January next, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column for the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised in the Crown grants of the pieces of land the names of which appear in the second column, situate in the districts named in the third column.

By order.
ELWIN B. DICKSON,
Acting Registrar.

These claims are advertised anew, being left over from former sittings.

SCHEDULE.

Goldfields Notice.

Gold-mining Lease to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of "The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regulations made under that Act for the granting of leases for gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicants specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Queenstown on or before the 8th day of January, 1887.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office at Queenstown.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: James Gilbert Johnston and Samuel Gower. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Johnston's Reef. 16 acres, at Upper Shotover, in the Wakatipu Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Land Transfer Act Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month of the date of the gazetting of this notice.

THOMAS WILLIAM BLANDFORD.—11 acres 2 roods 8 perches, being Pre-emptive Right C, Block IX., Wyndham District, otherwise known as Pre-emptive Right on Run 65, under Application 2934. Occupied by Matthew Sharley. No. 2287.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 20th day of December, 1886, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

F. G. MORGAN,
District Land Registrar.

694

Mining Notices.

I, the undersigned, hereby make application to register the United Devonshire Gold-mining Company as a Limited Company, under the provisions of "The Mining Companies Act, 1886."

1. The name of the company is to be the United Devonshire Gold-mining Company (Limited).

2. The place of intended operations is on the company's gold-mining lease, situated at Anderson's Hill Block (XIV.), in the County of Inangahua, in the Colony of New Zealand.

3. The registered office of the company will be in Reefton.

4. The capital of the company is six thousand pounds sterling, in thirty thousand shares of four shillings each.

5. The number of shares subscribed for is thirty thousand, being the entire number of shares in the company.

6. The number of shares paid up is nil.

7. The amount of capital already paid up is nil.

8. The name of the Manager is Henry George Hankin.

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.

Charles Anderson, Crushington, Miner .. .. 500
D. P. Anderson, Reefton, Sharebroker .. .. 500
Jonathan Auld, Black's Point, Insurance Agent .. 750
John Alexander, Reefton, Miner .. .. 250
Charles Bowwater, Black's Point, Contractor .. 250
James Beeche, Reefton, Student .. .. 250
Thomas Crumpton, Reefton, Blacksmith .. .. 250
John C. Craig, Black's Point, Hotelkeeper.. .. 250
Hugh Campbell, Black's Point, Miner .. .. 1,965
William Cummins, Black's Point, Mine Manager .. 1,000
Francis Callaghan, Crushington, Miner .. .. 500
Thomas Cavell, Reefton, Confectioner .. .. 500
John Dawson, Reefton, Hotelkeeper .. .. 250
John Davidson, Black's Point, Miner .. .. 400
W. D. Fisk, Reefton, Miner .. .. 500
James Greives, Reefton, Mining Speculator .. 500
William Grady, Fern Flat, Farmer .. .. 250
Henry George Hankin, Reefton, Mining Agent .. 1,500
John George Heslop, Reefton, Rate Collector .. 750