Feb. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 255

Amount of cash at bankers: £14 1s. 3d.
Amount of cash in hand: £13 1s. 1d.
Amount of debts directly due to the company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of contingent liabilities of the company: About £50.

I, Ernest O. Nash, of Reefton, the Manager of the No. 2 South Keep-it-Dark Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at the present date; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

ERNEST O. NASH,
Manager.

Declared at Reefton, this 11th day of January, 1888, before me—W. J. Potts, J.P. 103

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: The Sir Francis Drake Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 9th May, 1887; 10th July, 1887.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Reefton; Ernest O. Nash.
Nominal capital: £12,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £12,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same: Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: 10s.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 24,000.
Number of shares allotted: 24,000.
Amount paid up per share: 10s.
Amount called up per share: 9½d.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Part of two calls, £212 15s.
Number of shares forfeited: Nil.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 36.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash at bankers: £55 0s. 3d.
Amount of cash in hand: £8 4s. 8d.
Amount of debts directly due to the company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of contingent liabilities of the company: About £85.

I, Ernest O. Nash, of Reefton, the Manager of the Sir Francis Drake Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at the present date; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

ERNEST O. NASH,
Manager.

Declared at Reefton, this 11th day of January, 1888, before me—W. J. Potts, J.P. 104

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: The Tokatea Gold-mining Company (Registered).
When formed, and date of registration: 30th September, 1869.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Coromandel; William Horne.
Nominal capital: £100,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £90,500.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £9,615.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same: £90,500; nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £80,000.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 20,000.
Number of shares allotted: 18,000.
Amount paid up per share: £4 10s. 6d.
Amount called up per share: 10s. 6d.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: One; £750.
Number of shares forfeited: 2,000.
Number of forfeited shares sold: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 16.
Total amount of dividends declared: £63,625.
Total amount of dividends paid: £63,625.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash at bankers: £211 14s. 2d.

Amount of cash in hand: £3 0s. 8d.
Amount of debts directly due to the company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.

I, William Horne, of Coromandel, the Manager of the Tokatea Gold-mining Company (Registered), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at the present date; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

WILLIAM HORNE,
Manager.

Declared at Coromandel, this 17th day of January, 1888, before me—P. J. Tierney, J.P. 92

Private Advertisements.

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884,” and in the matter of the Australasian Mutual Live Stock Insurance Society (Limited).

IT is hereby notified that the Australasian Mutual Live Stock Insurance Society (Limited) voluntarily ceased to carry on business in this colony on the thirty-first day of December, 1887, and no longer proposes to carry on business in the said colony.

Dated at Dunedin, this 31st day of December, 1887.

W. A. WALTON,
Manager of and Attorney for the above-named society. 71

In the matter of “The Phoenix Assurance Company of London Act, 1887” (Private), and of the Phoenix Assurance Company of London.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Head Office of the Phoenix Assurance Company of London is situate at Exchange Chambers, 12, Grey Street, in the City of Wellington, at which Head Office legal proceedings and any notice may be served upon the company by serving the same upon the General Agent and Attorney of the company personally, or by sending the same through the post in a prepaid letter addressed to him, or leaving the same at the said Head Office, and such service shall be good service upon the company.

G. S. GRAHAM,
General Agent and Attorney.

Witness—John Sinclair, Solicitor, Wellington. 100

AUCKLAND AND NORTH SHORE FERRY COMPANY (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the above company, held on Thursday, the 2nd February, 1888, the following extraordinary resolutions were unanimously passed:—

1. “That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting that the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.”

2. “That, for the purpose of winding-up the company, J. P. Clark and John Milne, both of Auckland, be appointed Liquidators.”

JOHN MILNE. 102

NOTICE.

THE Partnership lately existing between the undersigned, JOHN BATEMAN HARCOURT, of Wellington, New Zealand, ROBERT HARCOURT, of No. 160, Haverstock Hill, in the County of Middlesex, in England, and CHARLES DUNCKLEY, of No. 15, Coleman Street, in the City of London, under the style of “Harcourt and Company,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as on and from the 31st day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

The assets of the late firm are the property of the said Robert Harcourt and Charles Dunckley, to whom all debts due to the late firm must be paid, and by whom its engagements will be discharged. The said Charles Dunckley is the authorised attorney within the Colony of New Zealand of the said Robert Harcourt, and the receipt of the said Charles Dunckley will be a sufficient discharge.

As witness our hands, this 8th day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

J. B. HARCOURT.
ROBERT HARCOURT,
(By his Attorney, CHAS. DUNCKLEY.)
CHAS. DUNCKLEY.

Signed by the said John Bateman Harcourt, by the said Robert Harcourt (by his Attorney, Charles Dunckley), and by the said Charles Dunckley, in the presence of—Robert Orr, Managing Clerk to W. T. L. Travers, Solicitor, Wellington. 107