APRIL 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 931

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Nevis Gold-dredging Company (Limited). When formed, and date of registration: October, 1896; 10th November, 1896.

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: High Street, Dunedin; F. Proctor.

Nominal capital: £2,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £2,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £780.

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): Nil.

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £300.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 2,000.

Number of shares allotted: 2,000.

Amount paid per share: 11s.

Amount called up per share: 11s.

Number and amount of calls in arrear: £155.

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: 16.

Present number of shareholders: 20.

Number of men employed by company: 8.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during preceding year: Nil.

Total quantity and value of gold or silver produced since registration: Nil.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations during preceding year: £1,035 9s. 3d.

Total expenditure since registration: £1,035 9s. 3d.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.

Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.

Amount of cash at banker’s: Nil.

Amount of cash in hand: Nil.

Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.

Amount of debts considered good: Nil.

Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): £353 17s. 2d.

I, F. Proctor, of Dunedin, the Manager of the Nevis Gold-dredging Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at the 31st day of March, 1897; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

F. PROCTOR,
Manager.

Declared at Dunedin, this 3rd day of April, 1897, before me
—William Wright, J.P.
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IN LIQUIDATION.

TALISMAN GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

As the affairs of the above-named company are now fully wound up, a Meeting of the Shareholders will be held at the office of the undersigned on Monday, the 28th day of June, 1897, at the hour of 3 p.m.

Business: To receive the Liquidator’s report and statement of accounts.

D. G. MACDONNELL,
Liquidator.

Auckland, 12th April, 1897.
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I, THE undersigned, hereby make application to register the Golden Falls Gold-mining Company as a no-liability company under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Act, 1894.”

1. The name of the company is to be the Golden Falls Gold-mining Company (No Liability).

2. The place of operations (or intended operations) is at Whangamata.

3. The registered office of the company will be situated at Victoria Street, Paeroa.

4. The value of the company’s property, including claim or lease ground and machinery, is four thousand pounds.

5. The number of shares in the company is eighty thousand, of one shilling each.

6. The number of shares subscribed for is eighty thousand.

7. The name of the Manager is Arthur Sandys Brooke Forster.

8. The names and addresses and occupations of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as below:—

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Millet, Richard Sheridan, Waitekauri, Assayer .. 10,000
Purchas, George Henry, Waitekauri, Mining Engineer .. 10,000
Haszard, Norman Frederick Johnston, Paeroa, Surveyor .. 6,000
Partington, Charles Frederick, Waitekauri, Engineer 10,000
Moore, Henry William, Waihi, Mine-manager .. 10,000
Purchas, Charles Edward, Auckland, Solicitor .. 5,000
Purchas, Arthur Challinor, Auckland, Surgeon .. 500
George, Seymour Thorne, Auckland, Mining Agent 2,000
Curtis, Alfred Harper, Auckland, Mining Engineer 5,000
Mercer, William Alexander, Auckland, Mining Engineer .. 9,000
Alison, Ewen William, Devonport, Manager .. 1,000
Peel, Arthur, Auckland, Gentleman .. 500
Haszard, Henry Douglas Morpeth, Thames, Surveyor .. 1,000
Gooch, Grace, Paeroa, Domestic Duties .. 1,000
Davey, James, Auckland, Tailor .. 500
Smith, William Marmaduke, Marton, Banker .. 1,000
Studholme, Joseph Francis, Ruanui, Napier, Run-holder .. 5,500
Callaway, Walter, Thames, Miner .. 1,500
Swanson, Charles, Auckland, Agent .. 500

Total .. .. .. .. 80,000

Dated this 12th day of April, 1897.

ARTHUR S. B. FORSTER,
Manager.

Witness to signature—Charles E. Purchas.

I, Arthur Sandys Brooke Forster, do solemnly and sincerely declare that—

1. I am the Manager of the said intended company.

2. The above statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

ARTHUR S. B. FORSTER.

Declared at Auckland, this 12th day of April, 1897, before me—Charles E. Purchas, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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THE MARIPOSA GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

“THE FOREIGN COMPANIES ACT, 1884.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Office of the above-named company is situate at the office of Henry Gilfillan, Esq., jun., Nos. 39, 40, and 41, New Zealand Insurance Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

Dated this 7th day of April, 1897.

SAM. JACKSON,
JAMES RUSSELL,
Attorneys for the said Company in New Zealand.
798

Land Transfer Act Notices.

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.

Allotment 1, Block II., Township of Roslyn.—JAMES CRAWFORD, Applicant. Occupied by Applicant. No. 4195. Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 12th day of April, 1897, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.
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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.

Section 17, Block XI., Town of Dunedin.—THOMAS HASTIE, Applicant. Occupied by Applicant. No. 4197. Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 12th day of April, 1897, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.
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