Feb. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 507

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: 49.
Present number of shareholders: 62.
Number of men employed by company: 7.
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 expended in connection with carrying on operations during preceding year: £3,367 14s. 1d.
Total expenditure since registration: £3,765 6s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash at banker's: £168 4s. 4d.
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) £900 (approximately).

I, John Marten Butt, of Wellington, the Secretary of the Dome Creek Gold-dredging Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of affairs of the said company on the 31st December, 1900; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
J. M. BUTT,
Secretary.

Declared at Wellington, this 18th day of January, 1901, before me—Chas. W. Benbow, J.P. 408

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Premier (Buller) Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 9th March, 1900.
Whether in active operation or not: Not in active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Wellington; John Marten Butt.
Nominal capital: £9,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £6,585.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £2,132 5s.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any):
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £1,500.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 9,000.
Number of shares allotted: 6,585.
Amount paid per share: Various.
Amount called up per share: 11s.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: —; £1,451 5s.
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: 120.
Present number of shareholders: 147.
Number of men employed by company: Nil.
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 expended in connection with carrying on operations during preceding year: £1,903 1s. 4d.
Total expenditure since registration: £1,903 1s. 4d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash at banker's: £225 4s. 8d.
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): £5,710 (approximately).

I, John Marten Butt, of Wellington, the Secretary of the Premier (Buller) Gold-dredging Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of affairs of the said company at the 31st December, 1900; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
J. M. BUTT,
Secretary.

Declared at Wellington, this 8th day of January, 1901, before me—Chas. W. Benbow, J.P. 409

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884”; and in the matter of the Royal Oak of Hauraki (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the above-named company to cease carrying on business in this colony, the said company being now in liquidation.
Dated this 31st day of January, 1901.
BUDDLE, BUTTON, AND CO.,
Attorneys for the Liquidator of the said Company. 404

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern (Taranaki) District.—In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882,” and its amendments; and in the matter of the Mokau Coal-mines Syndicate (Limited), (in liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given that all debts or claims against the company not received by the Official Liquidator by the 25th day of June, 1901, and not brought in and proved at the office of the Registrar at New Plymouth on the 22nd day of July, 1901, will be liable to be excluded from the benefit of any distribution.
Dated at New Plymouth, this 9th day of February, 1901.
J. H. QUILLIAM,
Official Liquidator. 549

THE ACHILLES GOLD-MINES (LIMITED).

“The Foreign Companies Act, 1884.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Office of the above-named company is at Bullendale, Lake County, in the Colony of New Zealand, where legal proceedings of any kind may be served upon it, and where notices of any kind may be addressed or given, and where the colonial register of the company is kept.
Dated at Bullendale, this 26th day of January, 1901.
FRED. J. DONNAL,
Attorney for the said Company. 551

In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882”; and in the matter of the Criffel Lead Dredging Company (Limited), (in liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Criffel Lead Dredging Company (Limited), held at the registered office of the company, No. 14, Bond Street, Dunedin, on Monday, the 28th January, 1901, it was resolved, “That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the shareholders 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, and that Hector Faulkner Monro Mercer be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up.”
Dated at Dunedin, this 14th day of February, 1901.
H. F. M. MERCER,
Liquidator. 556

THE CORNISH POINT GOLD-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 office of Reeves and Co., Vogel Street, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 30th April, 1901, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 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 (in pursuance of section 216 of the said Act) the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator thereof shall be disposed of.
Dated at Dunedin, the 13th day of February, 1901.
LAWFORD G. REEVES,
Liquidator.
Witness—J. White, Solicitor, Dunedin. 548

Land Transfer Act Notices.

APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a provisional title for Section 19, Block VI., Clarendon District, containing 35 acres, more or less, being the land registered in the name of SAMUEL EDWIN GREEN, in Register-book, Vol. lxxxii., folio 244, and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the title, I hereby give notice that I shall issue a provisional title as requested unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within fourteen days from the date of the publication hereof in the Gazette.
Dated this 14th day of February, 1901, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.
H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar. 553