170

Minimum (on 3rd) ... 17
Mean for month ... 23

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation = 100) ... 75.2
Mean elastic force of vapour ... 205 inches.
Mean temp. of dew point ... 35.0 Fah.
Total rainfall on 13 days ... 2.159 inches.
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 1st) ... .634
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, 10) ... 6
Wind: Mean velocity per day for month ... 150 miles.
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 9th) ... 360
Number of days on which the wind blew from each point:—
N. N.E. E. SE. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.
2 1 0 0 3 14 0 11

Note.—The results of all the self-registering instruments were recorded on the dates above given, and therefore occurred during the preceding 24 hours.

HENRY SKEY,

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1869.

It is hereby notified, that in conformity with clause 3 of “The Otago Municipal Corporations Act 1865,” the names of the following persons have been sent in to this office by the Town Clerks as having been elected Mayors for the places set opposite their names, viz.:—

Bendix Hallenstein, Queenstown;
Robert Finlay, Alexandra;
James Haslett, Clyde;
Samuel Gibbs, Oamaru;
Daniel Rolfe, Port Chalmers.

W. GISBORNE.

I, the undersigned, James Campbell, hereby make application to Register the Otago Gold Mining Company (Registered) under the provisions of the “Mining Companies Limited Liability Act 1865;” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is to the best of my belief and knowledge true in every particular.

1. The name and style of the Company is the Otago Gold Mining Company.

2. The place of operations is the Blue Spur, Gabriel’s Gully, Tuapeka, Province of Otago, and Colony of New Zealand.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is four thousand eight hundred pounds sterling, in eight shares of six hundred pounds sterling each.

4. The amount already paid up is four thousand eight hundred pounds sterling.

5. The name of the manager is James Campbell.

6. The office of the Company is at Blue Spur, Gabriel’s Gully.

7. The names and addresses of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date are as follows, viz.:—

Thomas Cousins, Blue Spur, 1 share
James M’Kinlay, do do
William M’Culloch, do do
James Farrell, do do
James Campbell, do do
Moses Wilkinson, do do
Nicholas Mills, junr., do do
John Teesdale, do do

Total, 8 shares.

JAMES CAMPBELL, Manager.

Dated this 17th day of August, 1869.

Witness to signature—
W. LAURENCE SIMPSON,
Justice of the Peace.

15s.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between John Reid, Edward Herbert, and George Forrest Reid, trading under the style of Reids & Herbert, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts owing by the Firm will please be at once sent in for liquidation, and those indebted to the Firm will oblige us by a prompt settlement of their accounts.

(Signed) JOHN REID,
EDWARD HERBERT,
G. F. REID.

Signed at Dunedin, this thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the presence of

Wm. Turnbull, Clerk, Dunedin.

With reference to the above, I beg to intimate to the customers of the late Firm and the public that I will carry on the business in the same premises, under the style of G. F. Reid, and I beg to solicit for myself a continuance of the support so largely accorded to the old Firm.

33s—3t

NOTICE.— An Extraordinary Meeting of Shareholders in the Independent Water Race Company (Registered), will be held at the Camp Hotel, Switzer’s, on Tuesday, the 24th of August, at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the Company.

By order of the Directors,
ROBERT CAMERON, Manager.
Switzer’s, 4th August, 1869.

3t.—17/6

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.