1920
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

In Bankruptcy.—In the District Court of Timaru and Oamaru, holden at Timaru.

NOTICE is hereby given that RICHARD CAMERON TORRANCE, of Waimate, Contractor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, at Arcade, Timaru, on Tuesday, the 17th day of July, 1906, at 11 o’clock.

ALEX. MONTGOMERY,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Timaru, 9th July, 1906.

MINING NOTICES.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company : Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in colony: 7th December, 1887.
Whether in active operation or not : In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys : Shortland Street, Auckland ; Charles Rhodes.
Where mine is situate : Waihi.
Nominal capital : £500,000.
Amount of capital subscribed : £495,907.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in the colony : £19,212.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares : £53,333.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £ paid up : Nil.
(c.) In cash : £48,637.
Number of shares into which capital is divided : 500,000.
Number of shares on Colonial Register : 32,495.
Amount paid per share (Colonial Register) : £1.
Amount called up per share (Colonial Register) : £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear (Colonial Register) : Nil.
Number of shares forfeited (Colonial Register) : Nil.
Number of forfeited shares on Colonial Register sold, and money received for same : Nil.
Number of shareholders on Colonial Register : 358.
Number of men employed by company in colony : Say, 1,460.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during period since last statement : 975,831 oz. bullion ; £723,521.
Total quantity and value of gold or silver produced since registration of office of company in colony : 4,687,751 oz. bullion ; £4,573,701.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in colony during period since last statement : £356,366 14s. 1d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in colony : £2,628,785 1s. 7d.
Total amount of dividends paid in colony : £79,780 6s.
Amount of cash at banker’s in colony : £23,711 6s. 3d.
Amount of cash in hand in colony : £1 14s. 11½d.
Amount of debts directly due to company in colony : Nil.
Amount of such debts considered good : Nil.
Amount of liabilities of company (if any) in colony : £1,363 17s. 1d.
Amount of debts owing by company : £26,590 5s. 8d.

I, Berkeley Howard Stafford, of Waihi, the Attorney of the Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 31st day of December, 1905, being the date of the last balance-sheet; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

BERKELEY H. STAFFORD,
Attorney.

Declared at Auckland, this 5th day of July, 1906, before me—Samuel Jackson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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“THE COMPANIES ACT, 1903,” SECTION 266, (3).

Re the Pioneer Gold Prospecting Company (Limited).

TAKE notice that the name of the above-mentioned company will at the expiration of three months from the date hereof, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the company will be dissolved.

Dated at Christchurch, this ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six.

P. G. WITHERS,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

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In the matter of the Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold-dredging Company (Limited), (in liquidation); and in the matter of “The Companies Act, 1903.”

TAKE notice that a General Meeting of the above-named company will be held on Monday, the 30th day of July, 1906, at 4 o’clock p.m., at the office of Messrs. Crawford and Bartleman, 14 Crawford Street, Dunedin, for the purpose of having laid before it an account showing the manner in which the winding-up of the company has been conducted and the assets of the company disposed of.

Dated at Dunedin, this 2nd day of July, 1906.

D. CRAWFORD,
A. BARTLEMAN,
Liquidators.

652

In the matter of the Shotover Quartz-mining Company (No Liability).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the above-named company, duly convened, and held at Dunedin, on Thursday, the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and six, the following special resolutions were duly passed, and at a subsequent extraordinary general meeting of the members of the said company, also duly convened, and held at the same place on Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and six, the said resolutions were duly confirmed, viz. :—

1. That it is expedient to effect an amalgamation of this company with the Ophir Mining Company (Limited).

2. That the Shotover Quartz-mining Company (No Liability) be wound up voluntarily; and that SEPTIMUS EDWARD BRENT, of Dunedin, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding-up.

3. That the said Liquidator be and he is hereby authorised to consent to the registration of a new company to be named “The Shotover Consolidated Mining Company (Limited),” with a memorandum and articles of association which have been already prepared with the privity and approval of the directors of this company.

4. That the draft agreement expressed to be made between the Liquidator of this company of the first part, this company of the second part, the Liquidator of the Ophir Mining Company (Limited) of the third part, the Ophir Mining Company (Limited) of the fourth part, and the Shotover Consolidated Mining Company (Limited) of the fifth part, be and the same is hereby approved; and that the said Liquidator be and he is hereby directed to enter into an agreement on behalf of this company on the terms of the draft, and to carry the same into effect.

5. Resolved that the Liquidator’s fee be £25.

Dated at Dunedin, this third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six.

S. E. BRENT,
Secretary.

Witness—Donald Reid, jun., Solicitor, Dunedin.

655

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

WHEREAS dealings have been presented for registration affecting Lease No. 250, from the AUCKLAND IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS to MARY VICKERS and LOUISA VICKERS, of the whole of the land comprised in Volume 5, folio 22, and part of the land in Volume 5, folio 23, of the Provisional Register books, and being Lot 6 and part Lot 7 of Subsection 2, Section 13, City of Auckland, and evidence adduced of the loss of the duplicate of the said lease: notice is hereby given of my intention to register such dealings at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice without requiring the production of the said duplicate lease.

Dated the 20th day of June, 1906, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

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LEASE No 2195, of Lot 11, part of Section 16, Suburbs of Rotorua, from ELIZABETH ELLEN WYLIE to ALICE COPPELL: the lessor having re-entered for non-payment of rent, it is my intention to notify such re-entry upon the Register at the expiration of one month after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 28th day of June, 1906, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

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