2778
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 73

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Talisman Consolidated (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 1904.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Karangahake and Auckland; Harry Stansfield.
Where mine is situate: Karangahake.
Nominal capital: £345,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £345,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £237,705 15s.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares:
(b.) In partly paid-up shares:
(c.) In cash:
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 345,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register at 29th February, 1912: 248,369.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): Fully paid.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register):
Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register): Nil.
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register at 29th February, 1912: 1,212.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 360.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 271,648 oz. 18 dwt.; £233,297 14s. 11d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand to 29th February, 1912: 2,258,448 oz. 7 dwt.; £1,379,990 2s. 7d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £114,099 16s. 5d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand to 29th February, 1912: £752,901 19s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £629,109 7s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £17,112 13s. 9d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand:
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of such debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: Nil.

I, Harry Stansfield, of Karangahake, in New Zealand, the Attorney of the Talisman Consolidated (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 29th February, 1912 (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, 1908.

H. STANSFIELD,
Attorney.

Declared at Karangahake, this 13th day of September, 1912, before me—J. Kitching, J.P.
648

BOROUGH OF TAPANUI.

In the matter of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and the Tapanui Commonage Reserve Exchange and Leasing Act, 1911.

PURSUANT to section 7 of the Tapanui Commonage Reserve Exchange and Leasing Act, 1911, I, WILLIAM SINCLAIR, Returning Officer at a poll of the electors of the Borough of Tapanui taken this day on a proposal that sections 5 and 6 of the last-mentioned Act be assented to by the said electors, hereby notify that at such poll the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal was as under:—

For the proposal .. .. .. 44
Against the proposal .. .. .. 1

And I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.
Dated at Tapanui, this 6th day of September, 1912.

WILL. SINCLAIR,
Returning Officer.
649

BOROUGH OF MATAURA.

PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Mataura taken on the 4th day of September, 1912, on the proposal that the system of rating property in the said borough be on the basis of the unimproved value thereof, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 115, the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 95; informal, 5; majority for the proposal, 20.

I therefore declare the proposal was carried.
Dated this 5th day of September, 1912.

JOHN LOWDEN,
Mayor.
650

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JOSEPH COOPER and WILLIAM COOPER, carrying on business as Farmers at Wendon, under the style or firm of “Cooper Bros.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 1st day of September, 1912.

Dated this 13th day of September, 1912.

JOSEPH COOPER.
WILLIAM COOPER.

Witness to both signatures—W. F. Inder, Solicitor, Gore.
651

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us, the undersigned, as Farmers, and carried on by us at Netley, near Waikanae, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent.

The Partnership affairs will be wound up by the undersigned, ALEXANDER FRANCIS HADFIELD.

Dated this 12th day of September, 1912.

A. F. HADFIELD.
R. HADFIELD.

Witness—Henry Frank Davis, J.P., Outfitter, Wellington.
652

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1908.

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

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned, William Braithwaite Rogers, of Teviot District, Sheep-farmer, 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: 20th June, 1912; No. 92223.

Address for service: Care Jabez Burton, Mining Agent, Roxburgh.

Dated at Roxburgh, this 12th day of August, 1912.

Schedule.

Locality of the race and of its starting and terminal points: Block I, Teviot Survey District—commencing at a point in Butcher’s Creek at the east end of Section 3 and terminating at the south end of Mrs. Rogers’s area held under occupation license, about 8 chains distant from the Clutha River.

Pegs marked: =.

Length and intended course of race: 75 chains south, through Section 3; thence south-west, through Sections 17 and 16, same block; thence south, through part of area held by Mrs. Rogers under occupation license.

Points of intake: One at head.

Estimated time and cost of construction: Already constructed.

Mean depth and breadth: Depth, 1 ft.; breadth, 4 ft.

Number of heads to be diverted: Four.

Purpose for which water is to be used: Irrigation,

Proposed term of license: Forty-two years.

W. B. ROGERS
(By his Registered Agent, JABEZ BURTON),
Applicant.