APRIL 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 503

In the matter of the Civil Service Co-operative Stores Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors of the above-named company are required, on or before the 30th day of May next, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to George Swann, Solicitor, 200, High Street, Christchurch, one of the Liquidators of the said company; and, if so required by notice in writing from the Liquidators of the said company, are, by their solicitors, to come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, or, in default thereof, they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.

Dated this 13th day of April, 1891.

Wm. J. BALLINGER,
GEORGE SWANN, Liquidators.

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NEW ZEALAND, } In the matter of a Bill intituled “An Act TO WIT. } to further amend ‘The New Zealand Bank Act, 1861.’ ”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Bank of New Zealand intends to present a petition to the General Assembly of New Zealand, at its next session, praying for leave to introduce a Bill to be intituled “An Act to further amend ‘The New Zealand Bank Act, 1861.’ ” The objects of the said Bill are—

(a.) To confirm and validate certain resolutions passed at the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the said bank held in London on the 28th day of August, 1890, and confirmed at a special general meeting of the said proprietors also held in London on the 18th day of September, 1890.

(b.) To declare that payments to reinstate shares, as mentioned in the second of the said resolutions, should not increase a shareholder’s original liability.

(c.) To declare that the deed of settlement of the said bank, amended and altered by certain resolutions passed and confirmed at meetings of the said proprietors held respectively in London on the 14th day of January, 1891, and the 4th day of February, 1891, shall be taken to have been duly amended and altered, and shall, as from the said 4th day of February, 1891 (the date when the amendments and alterations in the said deed were confirmed), be taken to be in the form intended to be set forth in a Schedule to the proposed Bill; and the laws, regulations, and provisions therein contained shall be the laws, regulations, and provisions for the time being of the said bank.

(d.) To declare that the said laws, regulations, and provisions shall not be amended, altered or repealed, under the provisions of the deed of settlement, in any way inconsistent with or repugnant to any of the provisions of the New Zealand Bank Acts, 1861 to 1891, or any of the laws or statutes in force in New Zealand.

The following is a copy of the resolutions referred to in paragraph (a) of this notice:—

1. “That £1 15s. per share of the existing shares in the capital of the bank, numbered 1 to 100,000 inclusive, and £2 10s. per share of the shares in the same capital, numbered 100,001 to 150,000 inclusive, be, and the same amounts respectively are, hereby cancelled, such capital having been lost or being unrepresented by available assets; and that henceforth dividends shall be paid on the first-mentioned shares as representing £5 5s. each instead of £7 each, and on the secondly-mentioned shares as representing £7 10s. each instead of £10 each. But such reduction shall not interfere with nor in any way alter the liability of shareholders to contribute a further sum of £10 as provided by the bank’s Acts and deed of settlement, in the event of the assets of the corporation being insufficient to meet its engagements.”

(2.) “That the Directors be and are hereby empowered, at their option, to receive from such holders of the shares in the capital of the bank numbered 1 to 100,000 inclusive as may be willing to pay the same £1 15s. per share, to reinstate their shares to £7; and to receive from such holders of the shares in the same capital numbered 100,001 to 150,000 inclusive as may be willing to pay the same £2 10s. per share, to reinstate their shares to £10, and on all shares so reinstated to pay dividends on the reinstated amount: Provided always that no such payment and reinstatement shall render any shareholder liable to pay any further or larger amount than he would have been liable for if such payment and reinstatement had not been made.”

And notice is hereby further given that copies of the said Bill will be deposited at the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders, at Wellington, at or within fourteen days after the commencement of the session.

Dated this 16th day of April, 1891.

C. E. BUTTON,
Wyndham Street, Auckland,
Solicitor for the Promoters of the Bill.

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CONTENTS.

APPOINTMENTS .. .. .. .. 493

LAND—
Taken for Lighthouse .. .. .. 493

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES .. .. .. 496

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS .. .. .. 493

MINING NOTICES .. .. .. .. 502

MISCELLANEOUS—
Abolition of Gold Duty in South Island .. .. 495
Civil Service Senior Examination .. .. 495
Notice to Mariners .. .. .. 495
Proposed Loans .. .. .. 494
Railway Traffic Returns .. .. .. 497
Road Board Elections .. .. .. 495
Special Orders .. .. .. 494

NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES .. .. .. 495

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS .. .. .. 502

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.