May 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 795

I, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON FALCONER, Bachelor of Arts, Science, Medicine, and Surgery, of the University of New Zealand, now residing in Seacliff, hereby give notice that I intend applying, on the 28th April, 1898, to have my name placed on the Medical Register for the Colony of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Dunedin.

ALEXANDER ROBERTSON FALCONER,
B.A., B.Sc., M.B., B.Ch.
Dated at Seacliff, 26th April, 1898. 538

I, CHARLES HENRY REGINALD PENTREATH, M.B. Bach. Surg. 1896, Univ. Camb., now residing in Waiuku, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 28th May, 1898, to have my name placed on the Medical Register for the Colony of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Auckland.

CHARLES HENRY REGINALD PENTREATH,
M.B., B.C., B.A.
Dated at Auckland, 1st May, 1898. 551

NELSON SAVINGS-BANK.

NOTICE is hereby given that the rate of interest upon deposits with this bank will be reduced to three per centum per annum on and after 1st May, 1898.

Nelson, 4th February, 1898. H. EDWARDS,
Vice-President. 215

In the matter of a Bill intituled “An Act to authorise a Company intended to be incorporated in Great Britain under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1890, of the Imperial Parliament, by the Name of the Auckland Electric Lighting and Power Company (Limited), to break up and cross over Streets and Roads, to place Mains, Service-lines, and Distributing-mains either above or below Ground, and to lay down and place Pipes, Conduits, and Service-pipes, and to erect Pillars, Arches, or Poles, and to make, construct, and do other Works and Things for supplying the City of Auckland and Suburbs with Electrical Energy.”

NOTICE is hereby given that application is intended to be made at the next session of the General Assembly of New Zealand for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise a company intended to be incorporated in Great Britain under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1890, of the Imperial Parliament, by the name of the Auckland Electric Lighting and Power Company (Limited), (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), to supply the City of Auckland and suburbs with electrical energy for lighting purposes and as a motive-power.

Copies of the Bill will be deposited at the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders on or before the commencement of the session.

It is intended 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, roads, and bridges, within the area of supply specified in the Schedule hereto, and lay down and place within, upon, or under such streets, roads, and bridges, mains, conduits, and service-pipes, and may, in or on such streets and roads, erect any pillars, arches, and poles, and do all other acts and things which the company shall from time to time deem necessary for supplying electrical energy for public and private purposes within the area of supply, doing as little damage as may be in the execution of the powers granted by this Act, and making compensation for any damage that may be done.

SCHEDULE.

Area of Supply.

The City of Auckland, the Boroughs of Parnell, Newton, and Newmarket, the Arch Hill and Eden Terrace Road Districts, and such parts of the Remuera, One-tree Hill, Epsom, Mount Eden, and Mount Albert Road Districts as are included within a radius of three miles from the General Post Office at Auckland.

Dated this 30th day of April, 1898.

RUSSELL AND CAMPBELL,
Solicitors and Agents for the Promoters of the Bill, 545

I, GEORGE WRATTEN, of Martinborough, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, Sheep-farmer, do hereby give public notice that, as and from the 28th day of April, 1898, I intend to assume and adopt the additional name of “Britton”; and I hereby declare that I intend henceforth to be known and called by the name of “George Britton Wratten,” and that in future the said name of “George Britton Wratten” will be used by me in all records, deeds, documents, writings, actions, and proceedings, in the place of the name of “George Wratten.”

Dated at the City of Wellington, this 28th day of April, 1898.

GEORGE WRATTEN.

Witness—
J. P. Campbell, Solicitor, Wellington. 532

In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882,” and its amendments; and in the matter of the New Zealand Glassware Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above-named company by the Supreme Court of New Zealand was, on the 3rd day of May, 1898, presented to his Honour Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice of the said Court, by the firm of W. Hildreth and Son, of Auckland and Wellington, Waste-product Merchants, a creditor of the said company; and the said petition is directed to be heard before a Judge of the said Court on the 17th day of May, 1898; and any creditor or contributory of the said company desirous to oppose the making of an order for the winding-up of the said company under the above Acts should appear at the time of hearing by himself or his counsel for that purpose; and a copy of the petition will be furnished to any creditor or contributory of the said company requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same.

STOUT, FINDLAY, AND CO.,
of Lambton Quay, Wellington,
Solicitors for the above-named Petitioning Firm. 542

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