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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 33

Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 120.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash at bankers: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to the company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of contingent liabilities of the company: £1,500.

I, John Coffey, the Manager of the above-named company, 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.”

JOHN COFFEY,
Manager.

Declared at Matakanui, this 22nd day of April, 1891, before me—W. Laidlaw, J.P.

Private Advertisements.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 1st April, 1891, the Partnership theretofore subsisting between JAMES Ross, of Bushy Park, near Palmerston, and DAVID Ross, of Meadowbank, also near Palmerston, in the Provincial District of Otago, in the business of Farmers, carried on by them under the style of “Ross Brothers,” was on that day dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated this 28th day of April, 1891.

JAMES ROSS.
DAVID ROSS.

Witness to the signature of the said James Ross—J. H. Hosking, Solicitor, Dunedin.
Witness to the signature of the said David Ross—D’Arcy Haggitt, Solicitor, Dunedin.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, WILLIAM ALLAN HOPKINS and ARTHUR HUGH BAGGS, as Estate Agents, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, under the style of “Hopkins and Baggs,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from to-day. The said William Allan Hopkins will pay all liabilities due by, and he is entitled to receive all the assets of, the late firm.

Dated this 1st day of May, 1891.

WILLIAM ALLAN HOPKINS.
A. H. BAGGS.

Witness—Ph. Kippenberger, Solicitor, Christchurch.

WE, the undersigned, JOHN ROBERT CAMPBELL and GEORGE MURDOCH, beg to give notice that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us, under the style of “Campbell and Murdoch,” expired this day by effluxion of time.

J. R. CAMPBELL.
Geo. MURDOCH.

Witness to the signature of John Robert Campbell—Fras. H. Bruges, Solicitor, Christchurch.
Witness to the signature of George Murdoch—L. H. Herdman, Accountant, Southbridge.

Southbridge, 6th May, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between us, the undersigned, under the style or firm of “Warring Brothers,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated the 13th day of April, 1891.

ROBERT WARRING.
JOSEPH WARRING.

Witness—A. W. Fullerton-Smith, Solicitor, Marton.

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884,” and of the China Traders’ Insurance Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that the office or place of business of the China Traders’ Insurance Company (Limited), in Wellington, at which the business of the said company is to be carried on, and at which all notices of any kind may be left, or legal proceedings may be served, is in Hunter Street, in the premises formerly occupied by Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co.

JAMES WHITTALL,
Attorney for the China Traders’ Insurance Company (Limited), for the Colony of New Zealand.

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the office of the Foreshore Tailings Company (No Liability), where legal proceedings of any kind may be served upon it, and to which notices of any kind may be addressed or given, is situate at the company’s works, Tararu Road, Thames, in the Provincial District of Auckland.

Dated this 17th day of April, 1891.

JAMES A. MILLER,
Attorney for the said company.

In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882,” and the amendments thereof.

NOTICE is hereby given that, at a duly-constituted meeting of the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand, held on the 2nd day of April, 1891, in the office of the company, the following special resolution was passed:—

“That the association be wound up voluntarily under the provisions of ‘The Companies Act, 1882,’ or any amendment thereof.”

And that, at a duly-constituted meeting of the above-named association, held in the office of the company on the 30th day of April, 1891, the foregoing resolution was confirmed.

Dunedin, 1st May, 1891.

BATHGATE AND WOODHOUSE,
Solicitors to the association.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of the Shareholders of the Dunedin Co-operative Meat-supply Company (Limited), in liquidation, will be held on Tuesday, the 21st July, 1891, at the offices of Mr. W. A. Stout, Barrister and Solicitor, Princes Street, Dunedin, at 2 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Liquidators’ accounts.

Thos. KEW HARTY,
ROBERT RUTHERFORD,
} Liquidators.

NEW ZEALAND,\nIn the matter of a Bill intituled “An Act to wit.\n} 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 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