23

Liabilities.

[By Sixty (60) Shares at £20 each ... £12,000 0 0
March 1, 1865, Deposits forfeited and ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Plant sold ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 157 8 4
Dec. 31, Loan from Bank and several Shareholders ... ... ... 3,351 18 3
Outstanding Bills ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 197 2 3

£15,706 8 10

GEORGE PURTON, Manager.
St. Bathans, Otago, N. Z.,
January 12, 1867.
12s. 6d.

SHAG RIVER WATER RACE COMPANY, REGISTERED.

Liabilities.

Capital called up ... ... ... £ s. d.
... 9,900 0 0
Bills payable ... ... ... ... ... 2,493 11 8
Petty cash account ... ... ... ... 2 12 9

£12,396 4 5

Assets.

Value of Race utensils and materials ... £ s. d.
... 11,674 17 1
Cash in hand ... ... ... ... ... 63 8 0
Balance at Bank of New Zealand ... 227 19 4
Calls due on Shares ... ... ... ... 530 0 0

£12,396 4 5

RICHARD CREETH, Manager.
Dunedin, January 15, 1867.
7s. 6d.

STATEMENT of Accounts of the “Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock Water Race Company” (Registered),

from the time they came under the “Limited Liability Act, 1865,” to 31st December, 1866 —

Capital £5,000, in 500 Shares of 10/. each.
Allotted to Original Shareholders—
300 Shares at 10/. each ... ... ... ... 3,000 0 0
Sold 133 Shares at par ... ... ... ... 1,330 0 0
Remaining in the hands of the Company 67 Shares ... 670 0 0

Received.
133 Scrip at par ... ... ... ... 1,330 0 0
Rent for Water ... ... ... ... 258 10 4
28 oz. 5 dwt. 3 grs. gold ... ... ... 106 14 3

5,000 0 0

Paid.
Wages up to 31st Dec., 1866 ... ... 1,359 13 4
April 12th—Dividend ... ... ... 70 0 0
Blacksmiths ... ... ... ... ... 21 12 0
Timber ... ... ... ... ... ... 119 6 0
Advertising, &c. ... ... ... ... 14 6 0
Mr. Theyers ... ... ... ... ... 21 3 0
Application for Lease ... ... ... 20 0 0
Mr. Bearesford ... ... ... ... 20 0 0
Mr. M. Sholl ... ... ... ... ... 16 8 6
Messrs. Fergusson and Mitchell ... 5 5 0
Mr. Telford ... ... ... ... ... 2 3 0
Cash in hand ... ... ... ... ... 4 17 9

1,675 4 7

Assets.
67 Scrip at par ... ... ... ... 670 0 0
By Mr. Robertson for poles ... ... 4 8 0

Balance in favor of Company ... ... 522 8 4

Liabilities.
Due account of Wages up to 31st December, 1866 ... 45 13 4

The Race is completed, and the Company started sluicing—By order of the Directors,
JOHN COLD CHAPPLE, Manager.
7th January, 1867.
32s 6d

Mr. Theyers ... ... ... ... ... 29 12 9
Messrs. Rivers ... ... ... ... 57 1 0
Messrs. Hall and Finlay ... ... 4 13 4
Mr. Heyward ... ... ... ... ... 4 4 0
Mr. Bearesford ... ... ... ... 5 10 3
Mr. Robertson ... ... ... ... 5 5 0

151 19 8

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Jan. 11, 1867.)

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. seventy-two, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” the several Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago, are thereby established; and it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council.
And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that every Provincial Council shall continue for the period of four years from the day of return of the writs for choosing the same, and no longer: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand by proclamation or otherwise to dissolve the same whenever he shall think it expedient so to do.

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this Proclamation dissolve the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago accordingly.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is amongst other things enacted, that the fifth part of the said Act, including sections thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine, and that section fifty-two, shall have no force or effect upon any Gold Field until after the Governor shall, by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, have proclaimed and extended the operation of the said part and sections to the Province wherein such Gold Fields shall be situate. And further that such proclamation shall only be made upon the application of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of a Province, and the said part and sections of this Act shall thereafter be of force and effect within such Province only.

And whereas application has been made by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago that the operation of the said part and sections of the said Act be extended to the said Province.

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, in pursuance and exercise of the power vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and extend the operation of the said part and sections of the said Act to the Province of Otago accordingly.