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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

UNDER “THE MINING ACT, 1898.”

APPLICATION FOR WATER-RACE.

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District, at Gore.

PURSUANT to “The Mining Act, 1898,” the under-signed Elizabeth Doull, wife of Robert Doull, of Mandeville, Miller, hereby applies for a license for a water-race as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Address for service: Care of Bowler and Nichol, Solicitors, Mersey Street, Gore.

Date and number of miner’s right: 2nd August, 1899; No. 5442.

Dated this 7th day of August, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

ELIZABETH DOULL
(by her Solicitors, BOWLER AND NICHOL),
Applicant.

Precise time of filing of the foregoing application: 10.30 a.m., 16th August, 1899.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto: Thursday, 21st September, 1899, at 10 a.m., Warden’s Court, Gore.

Objections thereto must be filed in Court and notified to applicant at least two days before the day so appointed.

M. FOLEY,
Mining Registrar.

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I, THE undersigned, hereby make application to register the Pactolus Gold-dredging Company (Limited) as a limited company under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Act, 1894,” and the amendments thereof.

1. The name of the company is to be the Pactolus Gold-dredging Company (Limited).

2. The place of intended operations is in or near the bed of Nelson Creek, in the Provincial District of Nelson, or such other place or places in New Zealand as may from time to time be decided upon by the company.

3. The registered office of the company will be situated in Bridge Street, Reefton, County of Inangahua, Colony of New Zealand.

4. The nominal capital of the company is nine thousand three hundred and seventy-five pounds, divided into twelve thousand five hundred shares of fifteen shillings each, of which two thousand five hundred shares shall be issued as paid up to ten shillings per share, and upon the shares so issued as paid up to ten shillings no calls shall be made until ten shillings per share shall be called up upon the remaining shares in the company.

5. The number of shares subscribed for is twelve thousand five hundred, being the entire number of shares in the company.

6. The amount already paid up is five hundred pounds, being one shilling per share on the contributing shares.

7. The name of the Manager is Percy Nichol Kingswell.

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

No. of Shares.

Contributing Shares, numbered 1 to 10,000.

Free, S. L. P., Reefton, Solicitor .. .. 1,000
Kingswell, P. N., Reefton, Mining Agent .. .. 1,250
Aitken, R. M., Reefton, Metallurgist .. .. 300
Spencer, E. W., Reefton, Engineer .. .. 750
Castle, H. S., Reefton, Accountant .. .. 250
Cradock, Montagu, Reefton, Gentleman .. .. 1,000
McMahon, B. P., Reefton, Accountant .. .. 250
Ferens, T. J. W., Reefton, Bank-manager .. .. 400
Montgomerie, J. A., Reefton, Surveyor .. .. 100
Stringer, T. W., Christchurch, Solicitor .. .. 1,000
Cresswell, W. J., Christchurch, Solicitor .. .. 1,000
Harris, Victor, Christchurch, Commission Agent .. 1,000
Dunn, Wm., Reefton, Contractor .. .. 250
Pearce, Frank, Reefton, Mine-superintendent .. 250
Kingswell, P. N. (in trust for absent shareholders), Reefton, Mining Agent .. .. .. 1,200

Shares paid up to Ten Shillings per Share, numbered 10,001 to 12,500.

Rundle, W. A., Ahaura, School-teacher .. .. 2,500

Total .. .. .. .. 12,500

Dated at Reefton, this 16th day of August, 1899.

P. N. KINGSWELL,
Manager.

Witness to signature — B. P. McMahon, Accountant, Reefton.

I, Percy Nichol Kingswell, 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.”

P. N. KINGSWELL.

Taken before me, at Reefton, this 17th day of August, 1899—Chas. Cohen, J.P.

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McKENZIE’S BEACH DREDGING COMPANY (LIMITED), (IN 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-named company will be held at the company’s registered office, Roxburgh, on Saturday, 28th October, 1899, at 7 o’clock in the evening, 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 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 Roxburgh, the 13th day of August, 1899.

JABEZ BURTON,
Liquidator.

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THE BALCLUTHA GOLD-DREDGING COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that at a special general meeting of the Balclutha Gold-dredging Company (Limited) the following resolution was passed as an extraordinary resolution:—

“That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the company that by reason of its liabilities it cannot carry on its business; therefore it is advisable that it be wound up, and that it be wound up accordingly.”

JAMES J. GIBSON,
Liquidator.

15th August, 1899.

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