1848
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 87

Application for Dissolution of Company.

I, ANDREW ROBY BLOXAM, Registrar of the Supreme Court for the District of Canterbury, do hereby notify that an affidavit, a copy of which is hereunder given, by John Jackson and Robert Heaton Rhodes, two shareholders of the Mount Cook Hermitage Company (Limited), has been lodged in the Magistrate's Court at Timaru, and forwarded to me; and that, unless notice of objection be lodged within sixty days of this date, I shall proceed to declare the said company to be dissolved, in manner prescribed by "The Companies Act, 1882."

Signed this 6th day of November, 1895.

A. R. BLOXAM,
Registrar.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Canterbury District.

In the matter of "The Companies Act, 1882," and its amendments.

We, John Jackson, of Timaru, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, merchant, and Robert Heaton Rhodes, of Blue Cliffs, St. Andrew's, in the said provincial district, sheep-farmer, and of the Mount Cook Hermitage Company (Limited), incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1882," do hereby make oath and declare,—

1. That the nominal capital of the said company is £10,000, in 5,000 shares of £2 each.

2. That 1,260 shares have been issued, of which five were cancelled.

3. That the said 1,255 shares have been fully paid up.

4. That the company has no assets, and has ceased to carry on its operations.

5. That the said John Jackson is the chairman of the said company, and the said Robert Heaton Rhodes is a shareholder of the said company.

6. And the said John Jackson and Robert Heaton Rhodes do hereby apply for declaration of dissolution of said company.

J. JACKSON.
R. H. RHODES.

Sworn at Timaru, this 31st day of October, 1895, before me—Arthur E. G. Rhodes, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Anthrax.—Notice No. 421.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 21st August, 1895.

I having been reported to me that the disease known as "anthrax" exists amongst stock running on certain lands in the County of Waipa, I therefore, in accordance with section 14, subsection (4), of "The Stock Act, 1893," hereby declare the under-mentioned lands to be an infected place, from which no stock, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fittings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock:—

Farm known as "Holmwood," occupied by Mrs. A. L. Martyn, of Ohaupo, comprising 600 acres, more or less.

Lands in occupation of Mr. D. Turnwald, Ohaupo, and used as a slaughter-yard, comprising 30 acres, more or less; and lands in occupation of D. Turnwald, bounded by farm occupied by Mrs. A. L. Martyn, and shore of Horseshoe Lake, 3 acres, more or less; lands in occupation of Mr. G. A. Kusab, near Ohaupo, 250 acres, more or less.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Anthrax.—Notice No. 422.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 26th August, 1895.

I having been reported to me that the disease known as "anthrax" exists amongst stock running on certain lands in the County of Waipa, I therefore, in accordance with section 14, subsection (4), of "The Stock Act, 1893," hereby declare the under-mentioned lands to be an infected place from which no stock, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fittings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock:—

Lands in occupation of Mr. George Watt, situated between Hautapu and Cambridge, being part of Section 188, Cemetery Reserve, 10 acres, more or less.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Swine-fever.—No. 413.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 3rd May, 1895.

I having been reported to me that the disease known as "swine-fever" exists amongst pigs belonging to Mr. J. C. Anderson, of Stirling, farmer, and running on his farm-lands, comprising Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, in Block XIII., North Molyneux District, I therefore, in accordance with section 14, subsection (4), of "The Stock Act, 1893," hereby declare such lands to be an infected place from which no swine, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fittings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Crown Lands Notices.

Deferred-payment License, Wellington, forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th November, 1895.

I is hereby notified that the interest of John Hughes in a deferred-payment license over Section No. 19, Block VIII., Makuri Survey District, was declared forfeited by the Wellington Land Board on the 31st of October, 1895.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Forest Sections near Rotorua for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 25th November, 1895.

I is hereby notified that the sections specified in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 15th January, 1896, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

MARAEROA-OTUROA BLOCK, THERMAL SPRINGS DISTRICT.

These sections are nearly all covered with mixed forest; soil light, but good. They are not well watered, owing to the porous nature of the soil.

CONDITIONS OF LEASING.

1. Term of lease, twenty-one years from the 1st day of March, 1896.

2. Rent payable half-yearly in advance; the first of such half-yearly payments to be made at the close of sale, and all future payments to be made to the officer appointed to receive the same within sixty days from the days on which they become due, and in default thereof the lease to be forfeited.

3. The lessee shall, within one year from the date of lease, fell, burn, and sow with grass an area equal to 5 per cent. of the land comprised therein; within two years a further 5 per cent. of the area; within three years a further 5 per cent. of the area; within six years an amount equal to one-quarter of the total area; and at the end of the term an area equal to one-half of the total area.

4. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, &c.

5. No transfers or assignments to be permitted without the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

6. No valuation for improvements will be paid by the Crown, but the lease of the holdings will, a few months before the end of the term, be submitted to auction again for a further period of twenty-one years, loaded with the value of the improvements in favour of the lessee, the incoming tenant to pay the value of the improvements; but if there be no bid for the lease then the land, with the improvements, will revert to the outgoing tenant at the same rent paid under the expiring lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.