Mar. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 499

APPLICATION having been made to me to issue a provisional certificate of title for Allotment 1, Block II., Township of Ravensbourne, Register-book, Vol. xlvii., folio 120, in the name of WILLIAM HENRY FITZ-PATRICK, and satisfactory evidence having been produced of the loss of the original certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I shall, as requested, issue a provisional certificate of title for the said land on the expiration of fourteen days from the date of publication hereof.

Dated this 22nd day of February, 1900, 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.

Part of Section 53, Block XXX., Town of Dunedin.—ELIZABETH SARAH RITCHIE, Applicant. Occupied by Applicant. No. 4338.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 26th day of February, 1900, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.

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Private Advertisements.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership heretofore carried on in the name of “J. H. Swann and Co.,” Oil Merchants, Crawford Street, Dunedin, is dissolved by mutual consent as from this date, and the said firm has ceased to carry on business. The book debts will be payable at the late office of the firm.

Dated this 19th day of February, 1900.

J. H. SWANN AND CO.

Witness—Fredk. Chapman, Solicitor, Dunedin. 391

In the matter of the Companies Act; and in the matter of the Cycle Link-action Company (Limited), (in liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given that a General Meeting of shareholders will be held at the offices of Hulme and Co., 218, Hereford Street, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 2nd May, 1900, at 8 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the final balance-sheet showing the liquidation of the company, and to pass the necessary resolution as to the custody of books, documents, &c.

F. D. KESTEVEN,
Liquidator.

Christchurch, 24th February, 1900. 413

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Office of the General Exploration Company (Limited) in New Zealand has this day been removed from the premises hitherto occupied to the office of Messrs. Harden and Wilson, Solicitors, Palmerston Street, Westport.

E. G. BRADDON, Attorney of said Company.

Westport, 14th February, 1900. 371

Under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and the Acts amending the same.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the Amuri County Council to take, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, the lands mentioned and described in the Schedule hereunder written for the purposes of a gravel-pit, and that a plan showing the lands required to be taken, together with the names of the owners and occupiers of such lands so far as they can be ascertained, has been deposited at the Amuri County Council office, Culverden, and is open for inspection. All persons affected by the taking of the said lands are hereby required to set forth in writing any well-grounded objection to the taking of such lands, and to send such writing, on or before the 7th day of April, 1900, to the Amuri County Council.

Dated at Culverden, this 15th day of February, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Land.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being part of Section 210, Square 90, situated in Blocks III. and VII., Culverden Survey District, Amuri County. Commencing at a point marked by a peg No. 1 on the north-western side of the road running north-easterly at the south-eastern side of the Red Post, the said point being distant north-easterly 12395·9 links from an old peg, also on the north-western side of the said road, and distant 50 links south-east of and bearing 318° 16′ on the said Red Post; thence north-easterly along the said road 707·5 links, and extending backwards 707·5 links north-westerly in a square block: as more particularly delineated on the accompanying plan, and coloured green.

D. RUTHERFORD,
WM. THOMSON,
[L.S.] Members of the Amuri County Council.
A. J. O'MALLEY,
Clerk, Amuri County Council.

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TO SOLICITORS, NATIVE AGENTS, ETC.

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REGULATIONS UNDER “THE NATIVE TOWNSHIPS ACT, 1896.” In English, 6d.; in Maori, 6d.

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