Amount of calls made—None.
Total amount of subscribed capital paid up—£2256 9s 2d.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of the Company—Six (6).
Amount of calls in hand—None.
Whether in operation or not—In operation.
Total amount of dividends declared—£833 6s 8d.
Number of shares unallotted—None.

H. L. SQUIRES, Manager.
Gabriel’s Gully, 7th July, 1873. 15s.

NORTH-EAST VALLEY ROAD BOARD.—Abstract of Accounts for year ending June, 1873.

Dr.

To Rates—

Pine Hill Subdivision ... ... ... £173 2 6
Signal Hill do ... ... ... 185 17 9
Harlington do ... ... ... 99 1 6
Subscription ... ... ... ... 20 0 0
General Government subsidy ... ... 608 7 7

£1146 9 4

Cr.

By District Fund—

Salaries, £24 10s; Incidental expenses, £5 4s 6d ... ... ... 29 14 6
Advertising, £2 18s 6d; Election expenses, £1 1s ... ... ... 3 19 6

Pine Hill Subdivision—

Road construction, £93 4s 2d; Maintenance, £19 8s 6d ... ... 112 12 8
Compensation, £10; Incidental ex., 6s... ... ... ... ... 10 5 0
Legal expenses (1871) £110; Advertising £2 11s ... ... ... 112 11 0
Salary to H. Duncan (arrears) ... ... ... ... ... 10 0 0

Signal Hill Subdivision—

Maintenance, £40 1s 9d; Compensation, £7 10s ... ... ... 47 11 9
Legal expenses (1871) £32 11s; Incidental expenses, £1 1s ... 33 12 0

Harlington Subdivision—

Road Construction, £137 1s 8d; Maintenance, £9 19s 6d ... 147 1 2
Legal expenses, £4 12s; Advertising, £1 5s 6d ... ... ... 5 17 6
Balance ... ... ... ... ... 620 6 3

£1146 9 4

Audited and found correct—
JOHN H. SCHOLEFIELD, Auditor.
FRANCIS SMITH, Chairman.
North-East Valley, 14th July, 1873. 15s.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 42, July 3, 1873.)

Proceedings at Election of a Member of the Provincial Council of Otago declared valid.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of July, 1873.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the sixty-seventh section of “The Regulation of Elections Act 1870,” it is enacted that no election shall be void in consequence only of there having been no Returning Officer at the time of the issue of the Writ, or of any delay in the return of the Writ; and where any accidental or unavoidable impediment, misfeasance, or omission shall have happened, the Governor in Council may take all such measures as may be necessary for removing such impediment or rectifying such misfeasance or omission, or may declare any or all of the proceedings at or for any election valid, as to and notwithstanding such impediment, misfeasance or omission; and every such Order in Council shall state specifically the nature of the impediment, misfeasance or omission, and shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette:

And whereas a Writ for the Election of a Member of the Provincial Council of Otago was issued on or about the twenty-second day of May last for the Electoral District of Moeraki: And whereas in accordance with the terms of the said Writ the election of a member for the said district was held on the nineteenth day of June last, but at the town of Hampden, within such district, the polling at such election took place in the Court-house there instead of at the School-house, which last-named house is and then was the duly appointed polling place for the election of members of the said Provincial Council: And whereas one Charles de Vere Teschemaker was declared by the Returning Officer at the said election to be duly elected thereat: And whereas it is expedient to declare the said election valid, notwithstanding the said irregularity, misfeasance, and omission:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby declare all the proceedings at and for the said election valid as to and notwithstanding the hereinbefore recited impediment, misfeasance, and omission.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SUPERINTENDENT OF OTAGO ELECTED.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1873.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for the election of a Superintendent of the Province of Otago has been returned, with a certificate to the effect that JAMES MACANDREW, Esq., has been duly elected.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(for the Colonial Secretary).

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER OF THE WASTE LANDS BOARD OF OTAGO APPROVED.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has (on this 2nd instant) under the provisions of “The Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” been pleased to approve of the following appointment made by His Honor the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice and consent of His Executive Council:—

JOHN REID, Esq.,
of Elderslie, Oamaru, to be a Commissioner of the Otago Waste Lands Board.

G. MAURICE O’ROBKE,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 43, July 4, 1873.)

REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES, AND OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES APPOINTED.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM GABRIEL FILLEUL, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Oamaru, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 8th day of May, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 28, of 9th May, 1873.

DANIEL POLLEN.

REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES, AND OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES, APPOINTED.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

PETER FLETCHER, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Lower Mataura, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 8th May, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 28, of 9th May, 1873.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DICK and CO., of Stafford street, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.