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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Christchurch Drainage Board proposes to take, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” all that piece of land, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 34 perches, being part of rural section numbered 8103 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Canterbury District, for the purpose of a drain and pipe-line and the maintenance thereof, which is the work proposed to be done on the said land.

And notice is hereby further given that a plan showing the land required to be taken, together with the name of the owner and occupier of such land, so far as can be ascertained, is deposited in the public office of the Christchurch Drainage Board, in Hereford Street, in the City of Christchurch, and is open for public inspection during ordinary office hours, and that all persons affected shall, if they have any well-grounded objection to the taking of such land or to the execution of such works, set forth in writing such objections, and send such writing within forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice to the said Christchurch Drainage Board, addressed to the Secretary, at the office of such Board, in Hereford Street, in the City of Christchurch.

Dated this 11th day of May, 1903.

EDWIN CUTHBERT,
Engineer and Secretary to Board.

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I, WALTER HISLOP, Manager of the Perpetual Trustees, Estate, and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare, —

1. That the liability of members is limited.

2. That the capital of the company is £106,250, divided into 25,000 shares of £4 5s.

3. That the number of shares issued is 21,669.

4. That calls to the amount of 7s. 6d. per share have been made, under which the sum of £8,125 17s. 6d. has been received.

5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates under administration during the half-year ending the 30th day of April, 1903, is £9,551 18s.

6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates under administration during the half-year ending the 30th day of April, 1903, is £11,896 17s. 5d.

7. That the amount of the balance held to the credit of estates under administration during the half-year ending the 30th day of April, 1903, is £2,986 7s. 9d.

8. That the liabilities of the company on the 1st day of May last were debts owing to sundry persons by the company, viz. :—

On judgment .. .. .. £ s. d.
On specialty .. .. .. Nil.
On notes or bills .. .. .. Nil.
On simple contracts .. .. 10,878 11 3
On estimated liabilities .. .. Nil.

9. That the assets of the company on that date were, —

£ s. d.
Government securities .. .. 2,500 0 0
Bills of exchange and promissory notes .. .. Nil.
Other securities .. .. 14,391 3 7
Cash at banker’s and on deposit .. 6,314 12 2

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

WALTER HISLOP.

Declared by the said Walter Hislop, at Dunedin, this 11th day of May, 1903, before me—R. Ewing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between the undersigned William Hamilton Turnbull and Thomas Gwynne Horsley Williams, carrying on business in copartnership, at Wellington, as Land and Estate Agents, Auctioneers, Sharebrokers, &c., was, on the 31st day of March, 1903, dissolved by mutual consent so far as regards the said Thomas Gwynne Horsley Williams, who retires from the said business. The business will be henceforth carried on by William Hamilton Turnbull alone, who will pay and discharge all debts and liabilities and receive all moneys payable to the said late partnership.

Dated this 30th day of April, 1903.

W. H. TURNBULL.
T. G. H. WILLIAMS.

Witness to signatures of William Hamilton Turnbull and Thomas Gwynne Horsley Williams—E. F. Hadfield, Solicitor, Wellington.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between the undersigned William Hamilton Turnbull, Oswald Stephen Watkins, and Thomas Gwynne Horsley Williams, carrying on business in copartnership at Wellington, under the name of Turnbull, Watkins, and Williams, as Land and Estate Agents, Auctioneers, Sharebrokers, &c., was on the 31st day of March, 1901, dissolved by mutual consent so far as regards the said Oswald Stephen Watkins, who retires from the firm. The business will be henceforth carried on by William Hamilton Turnbull and Thomas Gwynne Horsley Williams alone, who will pay and discharge all debts and liabilities and receive all money payable to the said late firm.

Dated this 22nd April, 1903.

W. H. TURNBULL.
O. S. WATKINS.
T. G. H. WILLIAMS.

Witness to the signatures of William Hamilton Turnbull, Oswald Stephen Watkins, and Thomas Gwynne Horsley Williams—E. F. Hadfield, Solicitor, Wellington..

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PRIVATE BILL.

In the matter of a proposed Bill to amend “The Presbyterian Church of Otago Lands Act, 1866,” and “The Dunedin Church Lands Ordinance, 1861,” by determining the present trusts on which section numbered 4 on the record map of the North-east Valley District is held, and declaring new trusts upon which the said section shall be held, and declaring that the rents, issues, profits, and income of the lands secondly described in the said Ordinance may be held in trust for or applied towards the erection and maintenance of a college or other educational institution on the said Section 4.

PURSUANT to the Standing Orders of the General Assembly of New Zealand relating to Private Bills, the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property, the intending petitioners, give notice that within fourteen days of the meeting of the General Assembly of New Zealand to be held next after the date of this notice, a petition will be presented to the said the General Assembly of New Zealand, through the Honourable the Speaker and members of the House of Representatives, by it, praying and applying for leave to bring in a private Bill to be called “The Presbyterian College Site Act, 1903.” The objects of the said application and Bill are as follows :—

1. To amend “The Presbyterian Church of Otago Lands Act, 1866,” by declaring or enacting that all trusts, powers, and authorities on which section numbered four (4) on the record map of the North-east Valley District is and has been held, shall cease and determine.

2. To provide that, after the passing of the said proposed Bill or Act, the said Section Four (4) shall be held by and vested in the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property in trust as a site for the erection and maintenance of a college or other educational institution.

3. To amend “The Dunedin Church Lands Ordinance, 1861,” by declaring or enacting that the whole rents, issues, profits, and proceeds now held or which may arise from the piece of land secondly described in the preamble to the said Ordinance may be held in trust for or applied towards the erection and maintenance of a college or other educational institution on the said Section Four (4).

4. To provide that the said Board may, until the erection of any such college or institution, lease all or any part of the said Section Four (4), and, after the erection of any such college or institution, any part of the said section which in the opinion of the said Board shall not be required for the actual site of any building, upon such terms, provisions, and conditions as the said Board may think fit, and in particular, if the Board so think fit, upon the terms, provisions, and conditions set out in the form of lease usually granted by the Board, and to accept surrenders of any such leases.

5. To provide that, from the passing of the proposed Bill or Act, the whole rents, issues, profits, and proceeds arising from the said Section Four (4) shall be applied towards the erection and maintenance of the said college or other institution.

6. To provide that any of the said rents, issues, profits, and proceeds may, until applied as aforesaid, be invested in Government, municipal, or real property securities for accumulation.

A copy of the said petition and Bill will be deposited in the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders within fourteen days after the commencement of the said session.

Dated at Dunedin, this eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three.

DOWNIE STEWART AND PAYNE,
Solicitors to the Bill.

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