SEPTEMBER 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2675

Under the Mining Act, 1908.

APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO SHIFT INTAKE AND ALTER PART OF COURSE OF WATER-RACE.

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Arrowtown.

Patrick Cosgrove and Francis Cosgrove, both of Gibbson, Retired Miners, hereby apply for permission to shift the intake and alter part of the course of water-race held under License No. 927, 15/12/1908, as specified in the Schedule hereto, the proposed altered course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Precise time of marking out : 7/9/25 at 12 noon.

Date and number of miners' rights : 128943, 18/10/24 ; 128944, 18/10/24.

Address for service : Care of W. A. Harlow, Solicitor, Clyde.

Dated at Clyde this 8th day of September, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

Commencing at a point in Camp Creek 60 chains up the creek from the present intake in Run No. 345, running in a northerly direction for a distance of about 30 chains through Section 18, Block I, Kawarau District; thence in a westerly direction into Sections 35 and 41 of said block, being land of Patrick Cosgrove, taking thereat portion of the water and carrying the water over the said Camp Creek in a pipe or fluming into the original course of the said water-race.

Length of proposed altered course; 1¼ miles (approximately); northerly and westerly.

Estimated time and cost of construction : Six months; £100. Mean depth and breadth : 2 ft. by 2 ft.

PATRICK COSGROVE and FRANCIS COSGROVE,

(By their solicitor, W. A. HARLOW), Applicants.

Precise time of filing foregoing application : 11th September, 1925, at 10 a.m.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto : Warden's Court, Arrowtown, 27th October, 1925, at 2 p.m.

Objections must be filed in the Registrar's office and notified to the applicant at least three days before the time so appointed.

904 F. STOOP, Mining Registrar.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the TARANAKI OIL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (N.Z.), LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a special meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held on the 9th day of September, 1925, the following special resolution was duly passed:—

"That the company be wound up voluntarily, and that THOMAS EDWARD WHITTON, of Auckland, Public Accountant, be appointed Liquidator."

Dated at Auckland this 10th day of September, 1925.

905 THOS. E. WHITTON.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership at will hitherto subsisting between Miss HARRIETTE FINN and Miss EMMIE STEVENSON, as Boardinghouse-proprietresses, at 14. Grafton Road, Auckland, has this day been dissolved by written notice given by the former to the latter.

Dated at Auckland this 17th day of August, 1925.

HARRIETTE FINN.

Witness to the signature of Miss Harriette Finn—D. C. Purdie, Law Clerk, Auckland.

EMMIE STEVENSON.

Witness to the signature of Miss Emmie Stevenson—F. J. Mouat, Solicitor, Auckland.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, FREDERICK JOHN ADCOCK and GEORGE HENRY ADCOCK, carrying on business as Pastrycooks at No. 83 Retreat Road, Avonside, Christchurch, under the style or firm of "Adcock Brothers," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 18th day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. All debts due to and owing by the late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said GEORGE HENRY ADCOCK, who will carry on the said business under the style of “G. H. Adcock” at the same address.

Dated this 18th day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

F. J. ADCOCK.

G. H. ADCOCK.

Witness to the signatures of Frederick John Adcock and George Henry Adcock—Rex C. Abernethy, Solicitor, Christchurch.

NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED).

TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR, AND AGENCY BRANCH.

In the matter of the New Zealand Insurance Company Trust Act, 1916.

Schedule as at 31st May, 1925.

CHARLES FREDERICK THOMAS, Manager, do solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1. That the liability of the members is limited.

2. That the capital of the company is £1,500,000 divided into 1,500,000 shares of £1 each.

3. That the number of shares issued is 1,500,000.

4. That calls to the amount of 12s. per share have been made, under which the sum of £900,000 has been received.

5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates is £3,109,626 5s. 10d.

6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates is £3,080,081 10s. 8d.

7. That the amount of the balance held to the credit of estates under administration is £29,544 15s. 2d.

8. That the liabilities of the company at the close of its financial year (to wit, the 31st day of May last) were,— Debts owing to sundry persons by the company, viz.,—

On judgment . . Nil.

On speciality .. Nil.

On notes or bills . . Nil.

On simple contracts .. £144,537.

On estimated liabilities £867,005.

9. That the assets of the company on that day were— Government securities, New Zealand : £424,592. Government securities, British and British Dependencies : £992,276. Bills of exchange and promissory notes : Nil. Cash at bankers : £184,110. Other securities : £768,970.

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, 1908.

C. F. THOMAS.

Declared at Auckland this 15th day of September, 1925, before me—C. F. Bennett, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Dominion of New Zealand.

NOTICE.

ALEXANDER BENJAMIN TOON, heretofore called and known by the name of “Alexander Benjamin Seabourn,” of Palmerston North, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Barman, hereby give public notice that on the seventeenth day of September, 1925, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of “Seabourn,” and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Alexander Benjamin Toon” instead of the said name of “Alexander Benjamin Seabourn.” And I further give notice that by a deed-poll dated the seventeenth day of September, 1925, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, Palmerston North Registry, on the seventeenth day of September, 1925, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “Seabourn,” and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Alexander Benjamin Toon” instead of “Alexander Benjamin Seabourn,” and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of “Alexander Benjamin Toon” exclusively.

Dated this seventeenth day of September, 1925.

909 ALEXANDER BENJAMIN TOON.