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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

THE RED MERCURY GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED), (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION).

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 202 of “The Companies Act, 1882,” that a General Meeting of the members of the above company will be held at my office, Star Chambers, Shortland Street, Auckland, on Monday, the 26th day of April, 1897, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company has been disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator thereof shall be disposed of.

Dated at Auckland, the 18th day of February, 1897.
E. WAYMOUTH,
Liquidator.

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Land Transfer Act Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel 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 publication hereof.

Part of Section 12, Block II., East Taieri District.—THOMAS FERGUS, Applicant. Unoccupied. No. 4186. Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 22nd day of February, 1897, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.

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Private Advertisements.

IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NEW ZEALAND.

NEW ZEALAND, TO WIT.

In the matter of an Act to be intituled “The Hawera Gas and Electric Lighting Act, 1897.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Hawera Gas Company (Limited), incorporated under “The Companies Act, 1882,” intends to present a petition to the General Assembly of New Zealand at the next session of Parliament praying for leave to introduce a Bill to be intituled “The Hawera Gas and Electric Lighting Act, 1897.” By the said Bill it is intended to take power to and confer upon the said Hawera Gas Company (Limited) (hereinafter called “the company”) and its successors authorising the company, under the superintendence of the persons having the control thereof respectively, to break up streets and roads in and through the Borough of Hawera, and in and through its suburbs for a radius of five miles from the Post-office, and to lay down and place pipes, and to make and construct other works for supplying the said Borough of Hawera and suburbs with gas. It is also intended by the said Bill to take power to and confer upon the said company to sue for the recovery of rents for gas supplied, and to impose penalties for the wilful destruction of the property appertaining to the works, and for the establishment and general management of gas-works in the said Borough of Hawera and suburbs.

It is intended also to apply for the following powers on behalf of the company, that is to say:—

The company, under the superintendence of the persons having the control thereof respectively, may open and break up or cross over the soil and pavement of the several streets and roads within the limits of this Act, and may open and break up or cross over any sewers, drains, or tunnels within or under such streets and roads, and lay down and place within or over the same limits pipes, conduits, and service-pipes and mains, service-lines and distributing-mains, and make, construct, and do other works and things, and from time to time repair, alter, or remove the same, and for the purposes aforesaid may remove and use all earth and materials in and under such streets and roads, and may in or on such streets and roads erect any pillars, bridges, arches, or poles, lamps, and other works, and do all other acts and things which the company shall from time to time deem necessary for supplying electrical energy within the limits hereinafter mentioned, doing as little damage as may be in the execution of the powers by the Act granted, and making compensation for any damage which may be done in the execution of such powers.

That the company may from time to time enter into any contract with any person for lighting by means of electricity or supplying with electrical energy any public or private buildings, or for providing any person with pipes, service-mains, transformers, accumulators, conductors, burners, meters, and lamps, and for the repair thereof, and may also from time to time enter into any contract with the Mayor and Corporation of Hawera, or other persons or body corporate having the control of any of the streets and roads within the limits aforesaid, for lighting the same or any of them by means of electricity, or for supplying them with electrical energy, and for providing such Mayor and Corporation, persons or body corporate, with lamps, lamp-posts, burners, and pipes, mains, transformers, accumulators or conductors, for such purpose, and for the repairs thereof, in such manner and upon such terms as shall be agreed upon between the company and the said Mayor and Corporation or other persons or body corporate; and the maximum charge to be made for the electrical quantity contained in any such supply shall be at or according to the rates specified in the Act or in the Schedules thereto.

That the company may let for hire any meter for ascertaining the quantity of electrical current or electrical energy consumed, absorbed, or supplied, and also any electrical fittings, including transformers for altering tension and accumulators for storing the energy, for such remuneration in money as shall be agreed upon between the company and any person to whom the same may be so let; and such remuneration shall be recoverable in the same manner as the rents or sums due to the company for electrical energy supplied; and such meters and fittings shall not be subject to distress for rent of the premises where the same may be used, nor to be taken in execution under any process or proceeding of a Court of law or equity, or in bankruptcy, against the person in whose possession the same may be.

That the clerk, engineer, or other officer duly appointed for the purpose by the company may at all reasonable times enter any building or place supplied by the company with electrical energy in order to inspect the meters, fittings, transformers, accumulators, and other instruments or things, and for regulating the supply thereof, and for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of electric current or energy consumed, absorbed, or supplied; and if any person hinder such officer as aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reasonable time, he shall for every such offence be liable to forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds (£5).

That if any person supplied with electrical current or energy neglect to pay the rent due for the same to the company, the company may stop such supply of current or energy from entering the premises of such person by cutting or switching the same off, or by such means as the company shall think fit, and may recover the rent due from such person, together with the expense of cutting or switching off the current or energy, and the cost of recovering the rent, by action in any Court of law of competent jurisdiction.

That in all cases in which the company are authorised to cut or switch off and take away the supply of electrical current or energy from any house, building, or premises, under the provisions of the Act, the company, their agents, or workmen, after giving forty-eight hours’ previous notice in writing to the occupier, or, if no occupier, then after leaving such notice on any portion of the premises, may enter into such house, building, or premises between the hours of nine in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, and remove and carry away any main switch, transformer, accumulator, meter-fittings, or other things being the property of the company.

The company may make by-laws or regulations, provided the same shall not be repugnant to the Act, or to “The Electric Lines Act, 1884,” or to “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” or to any statutory amendment thereof, or to any Road Board or County Council Act of the General Assembly, or to any by-law or regulation which may now or hereafter be made thereunder respectively; and may impose any penalty not exceeding the sum of five pounds (£5) for the breach of any by-law or regulation of the company.

The limits within which such works as aforesaid are intended to be made and maintained are Allotments Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, and Sixteen of Section One hundred and eighty-five on the Government plan of the Patea District, County of Hawera, containing about one acre.

Such works as aforesaid are intended to be made and maintained wholly within the Borough of Hawera and the lands lying outside the said borough but within the said radius of five miles from the Hawera Post-office, situate in the Hawera County.

Copies of the Bill will be deposited at the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders on or before the commencement of the session, and may also be had upon application to Messrs. Bell, Gully, and Izard, solicitors, Wellington, agents for the Bill, or from the undersigned.

Dated at Hawera, this 18th day of February, 1897.

H. CAPLEN,
Solicitor for the said Bill.

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