CORPORATION OF INVERCARGILL.

BALANCE SHEET for Year ending 31st December, 1873.

RECEIPTS.

Dr.

To Rates, 1873-74 ...... £1200 14 0
Rates, 1872-73 ...... 1199 7 0
Rates, 1871-72 ...... 19 14 0
Second and portion of third and fourth instalment of proceeds of sale of the Tay-street Block ...... 951 5 0
Rents, Town Belt ...... 93 18 1
Liquor Licenses ...... 599 0 0
Auctioneer’s do ...... 150 0 0
Carriers’ do ...... 24 0 0
Theatres do ...... 19 5 0
Dog Registration ...... 55 10 0
Goat do ...... 0 10 0
Bye Law Licenses ...... 76 8 6
Penalties, R.M. Court ...... 66 15 6
Rent, Jetty ...... 137 10 0
Cemetery Fees ...... 110 16 0
Subsidies Insurance Offices, Fire Brigade ...... 40 15 0
Deposits on Contracts ...... 724 19 6
Interest on Current Account ...... 14 0 3
Premium on Debentures ...... 70 0 0
Debentures issued ...... 3500 0 0
Hawker’s Licenses ...... 8 0 0
Rent, Endowment Sections ...... 161 17 3
Overdraft, due by Reserves Account ...... 951 16 11
Forfeited Deposits ...... 13 4 0
Sundries ...... 12 12 0

£10,201 18 0

DISBURSEMENTS.

Cr.

By Balance due Bankers, 31st December, 1872 ...... £90 8 2
Balance Credit Reserves Account, 31st December, 1872 ...... 76 2 7
Do. do. Contractors’ Deposits, 31st December, 1872 ...... 56 14 6
Expenditure on Public Works ...... 5340 1 6
Do. do. Reserves ...... 1997 10 0
Do. do. Cemetery ...... 77 9 6
Do. do. Jetty ...... 152 9 6
Ordinary—including Printing, Advertising, &c. ...... 452 17 7
Interest ...... 113 19 6
Maintenance, Fire Brigade ...... 106 5 9
Refund, Contractors’ Deposits ...... 430 14 6
Salaries ...... 323 15 0
Day Labor ...... 463 12 0
Cash in Bankers ...... 519 17 11

£10,201 18 0

GEORGE LUMSDEN,
Mayor.

W. B. SCANDRETT,
Town Clerk.

We do hereby declare that the within is a correct Balance Sheet of the Corporation Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1873, and that we have examined and checked the Books, Vouchers, Rates, &c., and have found the same correct in every particular.

D. MACRORIE,
D. FLEMINGTON,
Corporation Auditors.

Invercargill, 8th January, 1874.

FREE Nominated Immigration.—Forms of application and Regulations may be obtained at any of the School-houses and Police Offices out of Dunedin.

CORPORATION OF INVERCARGILL.

FIRE INSPECTOR.

I HEREBY notify that I have in terms of the 331st Clause of the “Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” appointed

Mr WILLIAM JOHN MOFFET, a Fire Inspector for the Town of Invercargill.

GEO. LUMSDEN,
Mayor.

Council Hall, Invercargill,
January 3rd, 1874.

Maerewhenua, January 5th, 1874.

THE Maerewhenua Water Race and Mining Company Registered.

Formed on the 30th day of December, 1872.

Date of Registration: 21st January, 1873.

Business conducted on the Maerewhenua.

Name of Legal Manager, Daniel Kermode.

Nominal Capital £3000.

Amount of paid-up scrip given to shareholders: Nil.

Number of Shares in which Capital is divided: Nil.

Number of shares taken: 200.

Amount of calls made: £14 14s. 3d.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid-up: £14 14s. 3d.

Number of shareholders at time of Registration of Company: Six.

Amount of cash in hand: Nil.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

DANIEL KERMODE,
Manager.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of the Scandinavian Water Race Company, Registered, for the half-year ended December 1st, 1873, made in conformity with the provisions of sec. 135, Mining Companies Act, 1872.

Name of Company: Scandinavian Water Race Company, Registered.

When formed, and date of Registration: 1865; May 6th, 1868.

Where business is conducted, and name Legal Manager: St. Bathans, Otago; George Purton.

Nominal Capital: £12,000.

Amount of paid-up Scrip given to Shareholders: £50 (fifty pounds).

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 240.

Number of shares taken: 240.

Amount of calls made: —

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £12,000.

Number of shareholders at time of registration: 28.

Amount of calls in hand: —

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: —

Number of shares unallotted: —

GEORGE PURTON,
Manager.

St. Bathans, Dec. 29th, 1873.

1t. 15s.

STATEMENT of the Affairs of “The United M. and E. Water Race Company, Registered,” for the half-year ending 27th December, 1873, in accordance with section 135, “Mining Companies Act, 1872.”

Name of Company: “The United M. and E. Water Race Company, Registered.”

When formed, and date of registration: 8th April, 1872; 23rd April, 1872.