SEPT. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1415

Private Advertisements.

THE MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF VICTORIA (LIMITED): ESTABLISHED A.D. 1870.

INTIMATION has been given to me that policy No. 14665, for the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, issued by the above society to John Henry, of Eltham, Province of Taranaki, bullock-driver and contractor, lately deceased, was, or is supposed to have been, destroyed by fire on or about the 2nd day of March, 1888.

Notice is hereby given that, if no intimation of the existence of the original is lodged with me within thirty days from this date, I will issue a duplicate of the said policy in terms of section 28 of "The Life Assurance Policies Act, 1884."

By order of the Board.
WILLIAM WILLS,
Resident Secretary.

Exchange Buildings, Liverpool Street, Dunedin,
1st September, 1895.
572

In the matter of "The Foreign Companies Act, 1884," and of the New Plymouth Petroleum Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that the office or place of business in the Colony of New Zealand of the above-named company, where legal proceedings of any kind may be served upon it, and to which notices of any kind may be addressed or given, is situated at the offices of Oliver Samuel, Brougham and Devon Streets, in the Town of New Plymouth.

Dated this 26th day of August, 1895.

OLIVER SAMUEL,
NEWTON KING,
Attorneys for the said company.
555

In the matter of "The Foreign Companies Act, 1884," and of the China Traders' Insurance Company (Limited).

IN conformity with and for the purposes of section 7 of the above Act, notice is hereby given that the office or place of business of the China Traders' Insurance Company (Limited), hitherto at the office of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association (Limited), in Tennyson Street, Napier, has been removed to the office of the aforesaid association at West Quay, the Spit.

JAMES WHITTALL,
Attorney for the China Traders' Insurance Company (Limited) for the Colony of New Zealand.
529

NOTICE.

In the matter of "The District Railways Act, 1877," and the several amendments thereof; and in the matter of the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited).

WHEREAS by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 44, of 14th August, 1890, His Excellency the Governor authorised the Cobden Railway and Coal Company (Limited) to construct a railway under the above-mentioned Acts from Cobden, via Coal Creek, to a point near Seven-mile Creek, as shown and referred to in the plan and book of reference, dated 2nd May, 1889, deposited in the Public Works Office, Wellington, and numbered P.W.D. 16239: And whereas the said Cobden Railway and Coal Company (Limited) has transferred all its interests in the said railway to the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited): Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited) to apply to His Excellency the Governor for authority to construct a further extension of said railway, and to alter certain portions of the centre line beyond the limits of deviation shown on aforesaid deposited plan; and that an amended plan, showing such extensions and alterations, and amended books of reference showing the lands required to be taken for the same, and the names of the owners and occupiers thereof, have this day been deposited and may be inspected at the office of the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and at the office of the Grey County Council, Greymouth, and at the Post-office, Cobden

JAMES DOUGLAS GILLIES,
Resident Engineer to the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited).

Greymouth, 12th August, 1895.
508

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