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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: The Phoenix Water-race Company (Registered).

When formed, and date of registration: 12th October, 1867.

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: 3, High Street, Dunedin; John Mouat.

Nominal capital: £1,500.

Amount of capital subscribed; £1,500.

Amount of capital actually paid up: £1,500.

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): The paid-up value of scrip issued to shareholders was equal to the capital subscribed by them—namely, £1,500; no paid-up scrip whatever was given to shareholders.

Number of shares into which capital is divided; 1,000.

Number of shares allotted: 1,000.

Amount paid up per share: £1 10s.

Amount called up per share: The whole.

Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.

Number of shares forfeited: Nil.

Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 34.

Present number of shareholders: 22.

Number of men employed by company: The company's property is leased, and it therefore does not directly employ any other person than the manager and an inspector.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during preceding year: The company does not itself carry on mining for gold or silver, but merely supplies water for mining and other purposes.

Total quantity and value of gold or silver produced since registration: No answer can be given to this for the reasons last above stated.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations during preceding year: The company's property being leased, the whole expenditure is made by the lessees, with the exception of the manager's salary, directors' fees, office expenses, and inspection of property, which altogether amount to about £25 a year.

Total expenditure since registration: The company, not being directly engaged in gold-mining, is unable to give any reply to this question other than that the whole of the company's capital was expended in the purchase of the company's property.

Total amount of dividends declared: £5,750.

Total amount of dividends paid: £5,750.

Amount of cash at banker's: £8 19s. 3d.

Amount of cash in hand: Nil.

Amount of debts directly due to company: There are no debts due to the company except the accruing rent of their property, of £150 a year, the next half-yearly payment of which falls due in July, 1895.

Amount of debts considered good: The whole of above.

Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): All liabilities of the company have been paid up to date.

I, John Mouat, of Dunedin, the Manager of the Phoenix Water-race Company (Registered), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company on the 31st December, 1895; 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 MOUAT,
Manager.

Declared at Dunedin, this 14th day of January, 1896, before me—C. M. Mouat, Solicitor, Dunedin.

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In the matter of "The Foreign Companies Act, 1884," and of the New Zealand Jubilee Gold-mine (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that the power of attorney, bearing date the 31st January, 1895, and made by the New Zealand Jubilee Gold-mine (Limited), in favour of Edward Kersey Cooper, has been revoked, and the place of business or office of the company, previously advertised as situated at Walters Street, Thames, has been changed, and that in future the place of business or office of such company in New Zealand, where any 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 offices of Mr. Edwin Clendon, Solicitor, Union Chambers, Albert Street, Thames. And, further, take notice that by deed bearing date the 2nd October, 1895, I was and still am the duly-appointed attorney in New Zealand for the said company.

Dated this 14th day of January, 1896.

EDWIN CLENDON,
Attorney for the New Zealand Jubilee Gold-mine (Limited).

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THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER GOLD-MINING COMPANY (NO LIABILITY).

Auckland, 9th January, 1896.

SIR,—Please take notice that the Office of the Mountain Flower Gold-mining Company (No Liability) is situated at the Bank of New Zealand Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland; and that Mr. WILLIAM ELLIOT has been appointed Manager.

ALFRED KIDD,
JAS. B. BLAIKIE,
Directors.

To the Registrar of the Supreme Court,
Auckland.

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Land Transfer Act Notices.

APPLICATION having been made to me to register a certain dealing affecting memoranda of mortgage numbered 4995 and 9607, ALICE AGNES BELDY to ARTHUR PERRY, and a statutory declaration of the loss of the originals of the said mortgages having been lodged with me, I hereby give notice that I will dispense with the production of the said mortgages, and register such dealing at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 17th day of January, 1896, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

J. M. BATHAM,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the date of the gazetting of this notice.

HENRY OSBORNE CASSELLS.—1 rood, being Section 16, Block V., Town of Riverton. Occupied by Charles Parmenter. No. 2619.

GEORGE ATKINSON BIRCH and CHRISTOPHER BASSTIAN.—1 rood, being Section 8, Block LXXII., Town of Invercargill. Occupied by Mrs. Rogers. No. 2624.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 15th day of January, 1896, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

F. G. MORGAN,
District Land Registrar.

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APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a provisional certificate of title in the name of CHARLES WILLIAM SCHULTZE the younger, of Awa-huri, Hotelkeeper, for Lots 89, 142, and 145 on deposited Plan 29, Awa-huri, being part Section 145, Sandon, and the land comprised in certificates of title, Vol. viii., folio 64, and Vol. xi., folio 74; and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the original certificates, I give notice that I will issue the provisional certificate as requested unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 6th day of February, 1896.

Dated at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1896.

THOS. HALL,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

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LEASE 2461, JOSEPHINE LOVE to DONALD ALEXANDER ROSS (now vested in Florence Hinchcliffe Thomas and Frederick Edward Thomas), of part Section 487, City of Wellington, being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lx., folio 18.—Notice of re-entry and cancellation of above lease will be entered on the said certificate, on the application of Josephine Love, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 24th day of February, 1896.

Dated at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1896.

THOS. HALL,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," unless caveat in the meantime be lodged forbidding the same.

Applicant: ARTHUR SAMUEL ATKINSON, of Nelson, Solicitor.—250 acres, Section No. 68, Block X., Mimi Survey District. Lately occupied by John Willison.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 20th day of January, 1896, at the Lands Registry Office, New Plymouth.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

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