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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 78

Total quantity and value of gold produced since registration: —; £45,725 7s. 9d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations during preceding year: £1,990 5s. 9d.
Total expenditure since registration: £39,260 8s. 5d.
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): Nil.

We, William Brown and Co., of Dunedin, the Managers of the Island Block Gold-mining 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 December, 1899; and we hereby make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
WILLIAM BROWN.

Declared at Dunedin, this 27th day of January, 1900, before me—A. Bartleman, J.P.
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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Piano Flat Hydraulic Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 10th October, 1898; 20th December, 1898.
Whether in active operation or not: Awaiting erection of plant.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Athenæum Chambers, Invercargill; Alex. Cross.
Nominal capital: £3,000.
Capital subscribed: £2,250.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £1,250.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): £1,000.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £1,000.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 3,000.
Number of shares allotted: 2,250.
Amount paid per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
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: 18.
Number of men employed by company: 20.
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 of expenditure in connection with carrying on operations during preceding year: £1,666 17s.
Total expenditure since registration: £1,666 17s.
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): £416 17s.

I, Alex. Cross, of Invercargill, the Manager of the Piano Flat Hydraulic Gold-mining 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 December, 1899; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
ALEX. CROSS,
Manager.

Declared at Invercargill, this 23rd day of January, 1900, before me—Aaron Blacke, J.P.
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UNDER “THE MINING ACT, 1898,” AND “THE MINING ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1899.”

APPLICATION FOR ALTERATION OF WATER-RACE.

To the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Southland Land District, at Invercargill.

Pursuant to “The Mining Act, 1898,” and “The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1899,” the undersigned Elizabeth Doull, wife of Robert Doull, of Mandeville, Farmer, hereby applies for a license for an alteration of a water-race held under License No. 34, dated 19th October, 1899, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Address for service: At the office of W. F. Inder, Solicitor, Gore.

Date and number of miner’s right: 2/8/1900; 7896.

Dated this 27th day of August, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

Locality of the race, and its starting and terminal points: To alter the head of water-race held under License No. 34, dated the 19th day of October, 1899, and divert the course thereof as follows: To alter the head of the present race to a point on the Otamita River on Section 247, Hokonui District, and joining the present race 8 chains from its present head.

Length and intended course of race: 42 chains 50 links; west and south-west.

Points of intake: 3 chains above the artificial channel constructed by the residents of Mandeville.

Estimated time and cost of construction: 12 months; £100.

Mean depth and breadth: 3½ ft. by 10 ft.

Purpose for which water is to be used: Purpose specified in license.

Proposed term of license: Forty-two years, from 19th October, 1899.

ELIZABETH DOULL
(by her Solicitor, W. F. Inder),
Applicant.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application, and all objections thereto: Friday, 21st September, 1900, at 11 a.m., at Land Office, Invercargill.

Objections must be filed in the Land Office, Invercargill, and notified to applicant, at least twenty-four hours before the time so appointed.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
763

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884”; and in the matter of the New Zealand Talisman Gold-mining Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, that the New Zealand Talisman Gold-mining Company (Limited) will, after the expiration of three months from the date hereof, cease to carry on business in the Colony of New Zealand.

Dated this 13th day of August, 1900.

A. H. CURTIS,
Attorney for the Company.
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Private Advertisements.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned HENRY HARRIS HILL and FRANCIS JAMES HARTRIDGE, late of St. Mary Axe, in the City of London, and the City of Birmingham, Merchants, and ROBERT STRUTHERS, of the City of Christchurch, in New Zealand, Merchant, in the business of Ironmongers, Saddlers’ Ironmongers, and General Merchants, at Christchurch, New Zealand, aforesaid, under the style or firm of “Mason, Struthers, and Co.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the 31st day of December, 1899. All debts due to and owing by the late firm will be received and paid by the said Robert Struthers, who will carry on the said business on his own sole account.

Dated this 14th day of July, 1900.

HENRY H. HILL.
FRAS. J. HARTRIDGE.
ROBERT STRUTHERS.
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In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882,” and amendments; and in the matter of the Makotuku Co-operative Dairy Company (Limited).

NOTICE.

A MEETING of the members of the above company will be held in the Public Reading-room, Makotuku, at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, the 3rd day of November, 1900, for the purpose of having laid before them the accounts and report of the Liquidator connected with the voluntary winding-up of the aforesaid company.

Dated at Ormondville, this 30th day of August, 1900.

DAVID WILSON,
Liquidator.
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