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Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
Number of shares forfeited: 8,209.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 16.
Total amount of dividends declared: £294 15s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends paid: £135 1s. 6d.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: £159 14s.
Amount of cash at bankers: £1,256 8s. 1d.
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: £1,246 2s. 1d.
I, Frederick Adolphus Bamford, of Nelson, the Manager of the Johnston's United 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."
FRED. A. BAMFORD,
Manager.
Declared at Nelson, this 6th day of January, 1891, before me—Wm. Haddow, J.P.
Private Advertisements.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between the undersigned, WILLIAM HASTIE and JOHN TINDALL, trading under the firm of "W. Hastie and Co.," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 1st day of December, 1890. All debts owing by the late Partnership will be paid by William Hastie, to whom all moneys due to the late firm must be paid.
Dated at Napier, this 5th day of January, 1891.
WM. HASTIE.
JOHN TINDALL.
Witness to the signatures of the said William Hastie and John Tindall—John Anderson, Sheep-farmer, Kereru.
RICHARD WALKER ANDERSON, of Colombo Street, Sydenham, Mem. R. Coll. Surg. Eng., Lic. R. Coll. Phys. Lond., Lic. Soc. Apoth., 1890, registered on Imperial Register, hereby give notice that I have, this 6th day of January, 1891, deposited my diplomas with the Registrar of the Christchurch District; and that I shall apply to be registered under the New Zealand Medical Act on the 6th day of February, 1891.
RICHARD W. ANDERSON.
6th January, 1891.
JAMES PAYNE BAKER, Christchurch, L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. Edin., registered in Edinburgh, London, and Adelaide, 1876, and F.R.C.S. Edin. 1879, give notice that I have, this 5th day of January, 1891, deposited evidence of my qualifications with the Registrar, Christchurch District; and that I shall apply to be registered under the New Zealand Medical Act on the 5th day of February, 1891.
JAMES P. BAKER.
Christchurch, 6th January, 1891.
NEW ZEALAND,
TO WIT.
In the matter of a Bill intituled "An Act 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 object of the said Bill is 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 said proprietors, also held in London on the 18th day of September, 1890.
The following is a copy of the resolutions above referred to:—

1. "That the £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 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 or 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 amounts."
   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 20th day of December, 1890.
   C. E. BUTTON,
   Auckland, Solicitor for the promoters of the Bill.
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