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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

I, THE undersigned, hereby make application to register the Boatman’s Creek Sluicing Company as a limited company under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Act, 1894.”

1. The name of the company is to be the Boatman’s Creek Sluicing Company (Limited).

2. The place of operations is at Boatman’s Creek, close to Capleston, in the County of Inangahua, in the Colony of New Zealand.

3. The registered office of the company will be situated at Bridge Street, Reefton, in the county and colony aforesaid.

4. The nominal capital of the company is three thousand one hundred and twenty-five pounds, in twenty-five thousand shares of two shillings and sixpence each.

5. The number of shares subscribed for is twenty-five thousand.

6. The number of paid-up shares is one thousand.

7. The amount already paid up is one hundred and twenty-five pounds.

8. The name of the Manager pro tem. is James Frederick Clark.

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

No. of
Shares.
Lockington, Elisha, Reefton, Sawmiller .. .. 4,500
Reeves, Richard H. J., Nelson, Commission Agent 4,000
Clark, James Frederick, Reefton, Mining Agent .. 3,500
Bell, Thomas, Murchison, Farmer .. .. 2,000
Willis, William P., Westport, Surgeon .. .. 2,000
Thomson, J. D., Nelson, Surveyor .. .. 2,000
Harden, Charles Edward, Westport, Solicitor .. 2,000
Davine, D., Cronadun, Miner .. .. 2,000
Coull, James, Nelson, Commercial Traveller .. 1,000
Furneaux, M., Westport, Master Mariner .. .. 1,000
Symons, W. R., Wellington, Clerk .. .. 1,000

Total .. .. .. .. 25,000

Dated this 15th day of December, 1897.

JAMES FREDERICK CLARK,
Manager pro tem.

Witness to signature—Wm. Noonan, County Clerk, Reefton.

I, James Frederick Clark, do solemnly and sincerely declare that—

1. I am the Manager pro tem. 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.”

JAMES FREDERICK CLARK.

Taken before me, at Reefton aforesaid, this 15th day of December, 1897—Walter Irving, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

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ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND MINES INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED).

A GENERAL Meeting of shareholders in the above company is hereby convened, to be held at the office of the company, in Hobson’s Buildings, Shortland Street, Auckland, on Monday, 14th March, 1898.

BUSINESS :

To receive statement of accounts from the Liquidator.

W. B. A. MORRISON,
Liquidator.

Auckland, 7th January, 1898.

Any accounts or claims against the company must be rendered to me at once.

W.B.A.M.

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OWHAROA GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the above company, held at the office of the company, Hobson’s Buildings, Shortland Street, Auckland, on the 21st day of December, 1897, the following extraordinary resolution was unanimously passed, viz.,—

“That the company be wound up voluntarily under the provisions of ‘The Companies Act, 1882,’”—

And that the above resolution was confirmed at an extraordinary general meeting, held on the 6th day of January, 1898; and, further, that Seering H. Matthews was at such meeting appointed the Official Liquidator.

SEERING H. MATTHEWS,
Liquidator.

Auckland, 6th January, 1898.

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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CONSTRUCT WATER-RACE.

Otago Mining District, 8th January, 1898.

To the Warden at Livingstone.

WE hereby give notice that we intend to construct a water-race to divert and use water for irrigation purposes, commencing at a point at junction of north and south branches of Awakino River, on Runs 2 and 5 of 23, Kurow District, and terminating at Lot 1, Land Company’s plan, Block I., being F. G. A. Hille’s section.

The length of such race is 9 miles or thereabouts, and its intended course is through Sections 7, 8, and 6, Block IV., through both W. Sutherland’s and J. Wilson’s portions of Run 9 of 23, through the Presbyterian Church glebe portion of Lot 1, Land Company’s plan, Block I., to Hille’s section. From Section 8, Block IV., to Wilson’s portion of Run 9 of 23, the race follows a natural watercourse. Also a branch race to carry two heads of water from Section 7, Block IV., through Section 5, Block IV., to Section 8, Block IV.

The mean depth of such race is 1 ft., and the mean breadth is 4 ft., and it is proposed to divert twelve Government heads of water.

License required for fifteen years.

Cost of construction : £200.

Time required for construction : Nine months.

Number and date of miner’s rights :

EDRIC GEORGE ARTHUR HILLE,
29990, 6th January, 1898;

GEORGE ORR,
29989, 6th January, 1898;

JAMES PHILLIPS,
29991, 6th January, 1898;

Applicants

(By their Solicitor, Hugh Winfield Roll).

Any person objecting to the granting of this application must lodge his objection in writing at the Warden’s Office at Livingstone within fourteen clear days from the date hereof.

Hearing at 11 o’clock on the 25th March, 1898, at Livingstone.

HENRY H. G. RALFE,
Pro Warden.

Warden’s Office, 8th January, 1898.

Recd. 12.15, 8/1/98.

H.H.G.R., For Mining Regr.

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In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882”; and in the matter of the Swanston Gold-mining Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders held at the offices of Messrs. Cook and Gray, 171, Hereford Street, Christchurch, on the 22nd December, 1897, the following extraordinary resolution was unanimously passed :—

“That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same; and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily.

“That Thomas A. Arrowsmith be appointed Liquidator.”

JOHN R. BRUNT,
Chairman.

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Land Transfer Act Notices.

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 month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

3407. DUNCAN EDWARD CLERK.—Allotments 3 and 4, and part of Allotment 2, Section 12, of the Suburbs of Auckland, containing 25 acres 3 roods 23 perches. Partly unoccupied, and partly occupied by E. Bamford.

3408. FRANK DIVER.—Allotment 461 of the Town of Cambridge East, containing 1 acre. In occupation of Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 15th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

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