391

General rates collected ... 56 10 0

Rate Expenditure

Paid into Treasury ... 42 0 0
Clerk’s salary for 1870-1 ... 8 7 0
Receipt-book and advertising, &c. ... 0 18 0
Stamps and stationery ... 1 0 0
Clerk’s salary for 1871-2 ... 7 0 0
Collecting rates ... 2 19 6
Cash in hand ... 0 13 8
62 18 2

Treasury Receipts

Balance at last audit ... 7 0 11
Rates paid in ... 42 0 0
Subsidy on same ... 42 0 0
91 0 11

Treasury Expenditure

Contract—Jones Bros. ... 11 0 0
Do Anderson & Key ... 47 10 0
Do Anderson ... 23 9 0
By Balance ... 9 1 11
91 0 11

We certify that we have examined the above Balance Sheet and found it correct.

F. F. DIEHL,
DONALD CAMPBELL, } Auditors.
ALEXANDER PRIE, Treasurer.

1st August, 1872.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between James Macfarlane, John Orkney and John Mill, stevedores, Port Chalmers, has this day been Dissolved by mutual consent. The business will in future be carried on by John Mill & Co. for their own benefit.

(Signed) JAMES MACFARLANE.
JOHN MILL.
JOHN ORKNEY.

Witness to the signatures of Jas. Macfarlane and John Mill.
WM. ELDER,
Chemist,
Port Chalmers.

Witness to the signature of John Orkney.
JOHN BLACK,
Engineer,
Auckland.

10s

I, THE Undersigned, William Smellie Douglas, hereby make application to register “The Perseverance Quartz 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, namely—

1. The name and style of the Company is “The Perseverance Quartz-Mining Company (Registered).”
2. The place of operations is at Shag Valley, in the Province of Otago.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is £12,000 in 2400 shares of five pounds each.
4. The amount already paid up is three thousand pounds.
5. The name of the manager is William Smellie Douglas.
6. The office of the Company is at Princes street, Dunedin.
7. The names and several residences of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follow:

James Ellis Glover, Shag Valley ... 500 shares
William Reid, Dunedin ... 500
Hugh Sutherland, Shag Valley ... 200
Peter Peterson, do ... 200
George Duncan, Dunedin ... 500
Edward Pritchard, do ... 500

Dated this 27th day of August, 1872.
WILL. S. DOUGLAS, Manager.

Witness to signature:
RICHARD H. LEARY, J.P.

20s

I, THE Undersigned Malcolm M’Lennan, hereby make application to register “The Pneumatic 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, namely—

1. The name and style of the Company is “The Pneumatic Gold Mining Company (Registered).”
2. The place of operations is on the Molyneux river.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is £1000, in 200 shares of £5 each.
4. The amount already paid up is £270.
5. The name of the manager is Malcolm M’Lennan.
6. The office of the Company is at Clyde.
7. The names and several residences of the Shareholders and the number of shares held by each at this date are as follow:

Malcolm M’Lennan, of Rangitata ... 6 shares
Henry Tuone, do ... 6
George Alyeo, do ... 6
James Archibald, do ... 6
James Waters, do ... 6
Thomas Brown, do ... 6
David Monroe, do ... 6
Samuel Goodwin, do ... 3
Paul Sherley, do ... 3
Samuel Salt, do ... 3
William Manson, do ... 3
Malcolm M’Lennan, in trust for the Company ... 146
200

Dated this thirteenth day of August, 1872.
MALCOLM M’LENNAN.

Witness to the signature:
GEO. TURNBULL,
A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

20s

[From New Zealand Gazette, 12th August, 1872, No. 40.]
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 1872.

IT is hereby notified that in conformity with Clause 3 of “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering 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:—

JOHN U. CAMBRIDGE — Clyde;
JOHN STUBBS WAIT — Oamaru;
MICHAEL FRAER — Cromwell;
JAMES GOODALL — Milton.

W. GISBORNE.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 41, August 22, 1872.]

(L.S.)
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871,” it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation to be published in the