JUNE 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1275

Total quantity and value of gold or silver produced since registration: Nil.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations during preceding year: £90 17s.
Total expenditure since registration: £675 10s.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash at banker’s: £2 12s.
Amount of cash in hand: 18s.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £123 1s. 3d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any):

I, Osmond Russell Bendall, the Secretary of the Murchison Gold-dredging Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company on 31st December, 1901; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

O. R. BENDALL,
Secretary.

Declared at Wellington, this day of June, 1902,
before me—C. D. Morpeth, J.P.
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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Waiho Gold-dredging Company.
When formed, and date of registration:
Whether in active operation or not: No.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: Christchurch; Chas. G. Lamb.
Nominal capital: £9,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £2,550.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £322 10s.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £2,000.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 9,000.
Number of shares allotted: 2,550.
Amount paid per share: 3s., £7,000; £1, £2,000.
Amount called up per share: 4s.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: —; £119.
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: 67.
Present number of shareholders: 67.
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: Nil.
Total expenditure since registration: £248 5s. 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: £15 4s. 6d.
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.
Amount of debts due by company: £158 1s.

I, Chas. G. Lamb, the Legal Manager of the Waiho Gold-dredging Company, do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the company at the 31st December, 1901; and I hereby make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

CHAS. G. LAMB,
Manager.

Declared at Christchurch, this 26th day of January, 1902,
before me—W. Rollitt, J.P.
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THE BENGER BURN GOLD-DREDGING COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 202 of “The Companies Act, 1882,” that a General Meeting of the members of the above company will be held on the 16th day of August, 1902, at 8 o’clock in the evening, at Noonan’s Hotel, Miller’s Flat, in the Provincial District of Otago, in order that there may be laid before the said company an account, and hearing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company has been disposed of, and in order that the said company may hear any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator; and also that an extraordinary resolution may be passed for determining the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the said company and of the Liquidator shall be disposed of.

WILLIAM BURTON,
Liquidator.
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In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882”; and in the matter of the Okarito and Five-mile Gold-dredging Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the abovenamed company by the Supreme Court was on the 5th day of June, 1902, presented to His Honour Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, by William Patrick, of Okarito, in the County of Westland, Blacksmith, a creditor of the said company; and the said petition is directed to be heard before a Judge of the said Court on the 20th day of June, 1902; and any creditor or contributory of the said company desirous to oppose the making of an order for the winding-up of the said company under the above Act should appear at the time of hearing, by himself or his counsel, for that purpose; and a copy of the petition will be furnished to any creditor or contributory of the said company requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same.

YOUNG AND TRIPE,
Agents for T. W. BEARE, Solicitor for Petitioner.
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UNDER “THE MINING ACT, 1898.”

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

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

PURSUANT to “The Mining Act, 1898,” the undersigned, the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors and Citizens of the City of Dunedin, 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.

Date and number of miner’s right: 29th October, 1901; No. 18420.

Address for service: The office of David Finlayson, Solicitor, Lawrence.

Dated at Lawrence, this 31st day of May, 1902.

SCHEDULE.

Locality of the race, and of its starting and terminal points: In Block 8, Waipori Survey District, taking water from Waipori River, commencing at a point on the west bank of that river opposite the Crystal Falls, at the head of Waipori Bush, and terminating at a point on the said river about 100 chains down the river from the commencement; pegs marked D.

Length and intended course of race: About 80 chains; course southerly.

Points of intake: At head of race.

Estimated time and cost of construction: Eighteen months; £4,000.

Mean depth and breadth: 6 ft. in breadth by 3 ft. 6 in. in depth.

Number of heads to be diverted: Eighty.

Purpose for which water is to be used: Generating electricity for transmission of power and electric lighting.

Proposed term of license: Forty-two years.

THE CORPORATION OF THE MAYOR, COUNCILLORS, AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN

(By its Solicitor, DAVID FINLAYSON),
Applicant.

Precise time of filing of the foregoing application: 10.40 a.m., 31st May, 1902.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application, and all objections thereto: Monday, 23rd June, 1902, at 2 p.m., at Warden’s Court, Lawrence.

Objections thereto must be filed in the Registrar’s Office and notified to applicant at least twenty-four hours before the day so appointed.

A. M. EYES,
Mining Registrar.

Notice is hereby given that upon the hearing of the above-mentioned application a certificate of abandonment of water-race held under license (No. 109) dated 7th May, 1900, granted to John Lawson, will be applied for, and may be granted unless cause to the contrary is shown.
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