Tenders.

Post Office and Telegraph Department:
General Post Office, Wellington, 21st May, 1889.
H. A. ATKINSON, Postmaster-General.

Land Transfer Act Notices.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 1st day of July, 1889.

2006. GEORGE THOMAS McEWEN.—60 acres, part of Section 1, Karere Block. In occupation of Applicant. Diagrams may be inspected at this office. Dated this 29th day of May, 1889, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

GEO. B. DAVY, District Land Registrar.

Mining Notices.

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

1. The name of the company is to be the National Gold-mining Company (Limited).
2. The place of intended operations is at Big River, County of Inangahua, Colony of New Zealand.
3. The registered office of the company will be situated at Bridge Street, Reefton, in the county and colony aforesaid.
4. The capital of the company is twelve thousand pounds, in twenty-four thousand shares of ten shillings each.
5. The number of shares subscribed for is twenty-four thousand, being the entire number of shares in the company.
6. The number of paid-up shares is nil.
7. The amount already paid up is nil.
8. The name of the Manager is Thomas Hubert Lee.
9. The names, addresses, and occupations of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follow:—

No. of Shares.

Charles E. Watkins, Reefton, Mining Engineer 250
James S. Jones, Reefton, Sharebroker 250
Edward H. Jacobsen, Reefton, Schoolboy 1,000
Jonas Bosted, Reefton, Miner 250
James Stevenson, Reefton, Hotelkeeper 1,000
James Nagle, Reefton, Bootmaker 500
Annie Roxborough, Reefton, Married Woman 500
James Wilkie, Reefton, Journalist 500
Charles Jacobsen, Reefton, Tailor 250
James Hart, Reefton, Draper 250
George Jaques, Reefton, Miner 100
Arthur J. Breen, Reefton, Hotelkeeper 1,000
F. D. Walker, Boatman's, Hotelkeeper 300
W. P. Manuel, Reefton, Sawmiller 1,000
Ellen Dash, Big River 350
John McTaggart, Big River, Carpenter 1,000
Elias Thomas, Reefton, Storekeeper 500
Alexander Notman, Big River, Miner 1,000
Richard M. Farmer, Reefton, Miner 300
Niels Bollerslev, Boatman's, Miner 250
John Cameron, Reefton, Constable 250
Walter Irving, Reefton, Sharebroker 1,000
Robert Lees, Reefton, Miner 7,800
Ellen Hankin, Reefton, Storekeeper 250

Henry Cosgrove, Reefton, Mine Manager 1,000
Andrew August, Happy Valley, Carpenter 250
John Gill, Big River, Miner 1,000
Thomas H. Lee, Reefton, Mining Agent 500
Thomas Lee, Reefton, Sharebroker 500
Thomas H. Lee (in trust for absent shareholders) 900

24,000

Dated this 25th day of May, 1889.

THOMAS H. LEE,
Manager.

Witness to signature—Thomas Lee, Sharebroker, Reefton.

I, Thomas Hubert Lee, 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."

THOMAS H. LEE.

Taken before me, at Reefton, this 25th day of May, 1889—

John B. Beeche, J.P.

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Private Advertisements.

APPLICATION TO ENTER A DISCLAIMER.

PATENT for an INVENTION for Poisoning the Inside or Flowery Portion of Grain, with the Object of Poisoning Small Birds and Vermin. Dated 7th May, 1888. No. 2971.

THIS is to notify to all whom it may concern that JOHN MILES CAMBRIDGE, of Ashburton, Chemist, has applied to me for leave to enter a disclaimer of the said invention, the particulars whereof are stated below. I do therefore appoint Tuesday, the 2nd day of July next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to hear and consider the said application and all objections to the same; and I do hereby require all persons having an interest in opposing the said application to leave, on or before the 17th day of June, at my office, in Wellington, particulars in writing of their objections to the same, otherwise they will be precluded from urging such objections.

Given under my hand, this 28th day of May, 1889.

C. J. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

I DESIRE to enter a disclaimer of the invention for poisoning the inside or flowery portion of grain, with the object of poisoning small birds and vermin, and the title and specification thereof (Letters Patent No. 2971), for the reason that I no longer wish to claim the exclusive right to use the said invention.

JOHN MILES CAMBRIDGE.

C. W. Purnell, Solicitor, Ashburton.

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WE beg to announce that we have admitted Mr. HAROLD BEAUCHAMP as a Partner in our firm.

W. M. BANNATYNE AND Co.

Wellington, 30th May, 1889.

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