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STATEMENT of the Hit or Miss Water Race Company, Registered, for the Half-year ended June 30th, 1874.

Name of Company: Hit or Miss.

When formed and date of Registration: Aug. 22nd, 1866.

Where business is conducted, and name of legal manager: At Mount Ida. — I. H. Anderson.

Nominal Capital: £6020.

Number of shares in which Capital is divided: 301.

Number of shares taken: 301.

Number of shareholders at time of Registration: 6.

Amount of Cash in hand: None.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividends declared: £181 11s 6d. Sterling.

HENRY ANDERSON,
Manager.

1t. 15s.

STATEMENT of Affairs of the Elizabeth Quartz Mining Company, Registered, for the half-year ending 30th June, 1874, in accordance with section 135 of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

Name of Company: Elizabeth Quartz Mining Company, Registered.

When formed, and date of registration: 23rd January, 1872; 26th April, 1872.

Where business is conducted, and name of legal manager: Cromwell: Charles Colclough.

Nominal capital: £6400.

Amount of paid up scrip given to shareholders: Nil.

Number of shares in which capital is divided: 1280.

Amount of calls made, £768—none within six months.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £5568.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of Company: 9.

Amount of cash in hand: Nil.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Total amount of dividend declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: Nil.

CHAS. COLCLOUGH, Manager.

12th July, 1874.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of the Carrick Range Water Supply Company, Registered, held at Cromwell, June 27th, 1874, James Marshall was appointed Legal Manager in the room of Mr. D. MacKellar resigned.

JAMES TAYLOR, Chairman.

JOHN MARSH, Director.

1t. 3s 6d.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of the Star of the East Quartz Mining Company, Registered, held at Cromwell, July 16th, 1874, James Marshall was appointed Legal Manager, in the room of Mr. D. MacKellar, resigned.

ROBERT KIDD, Chairman.

WILLIAM GRANT, Director.

1t. 3s 6d.

NOTICE to make fence.—To George Coupar, owner of Section 26, Block XII, Jacob’s River Hundred.—Take Notice, that I desire that the boundary, or separating fence between Section 26, Block XII, and Section 27, Block XII, Jacob’s River Hundred, be made immediately, and that said fence shall be a three sod fence with stakes for two wires, and with rails on both sides.

Dated this 11th day of July, 1874.

W. HAMLYN,
Owner and occupier of Section 27, Block XII,
Jacob’s River Hundred.

3t 12s.

NOTICE TO FENCE.

I hereby give Notice to George Harvey, or whom it may concern, to erect Fence between section 1, Block XI Pomahaka, and sections 52, Block III. Waipahoe.

3t 6s

THOMAS MADDEN.

LETTER, addressed T. W. Fyfe, Esq., care of his Honor the Superintendent, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, may be had by Mr. Fyfe, at the Superintendent’s Office, Dunedin.

SUPREME COURT CIRCUIT SITTING.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that a Circuit Court Sitting of the Supreme Court for the despatch of Criminal and Civil business, will be held in the Court House at Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 15th day of September next, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon; at which time and place all persons bound by recognizances or otherwise to appear as prosecutors, plaintiffs, defendants, or witnesses are required to give their attendance.

EDWARD FRAS. WARD,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 3rd August, 1874.

AMENDED NOTICE.

WHALING BONUS, £500.

Open until the first day of Nov. 1874.

THE Provincial Government will pay £250 by way of Bonus to the first vessel which leaves the Province fully equipped for a whaling cruise, provided such vessel shall leave on or before the 1st day of November 1874; also £250 on her returning to the Province with a cargo of oil; provided that such vessel is owned in, and hails from a port within the Province. Vessel not to be under 150 tons. Provided also that she carries at least five boys as apprentices. Bonus will be paid on production of certificate from the Harbor Master that these provisions have been complied with.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Dunedin 7th July 1874.

BONUS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF POTTERY WORKS IN OTAGO.

THE Provincial Government, being desirous of encouraging the establishment of Pottery Works in Otago, is prepared to pay a Bonus of £250, as under:—

On the erection of buildings and plant to the value of at least £300—£75.

On the production of pottery to a value of not less than £150—£75.

On the production of a further quantity of pottery to a value of not less than £200—£100.

The pottery ware in each case to be suitable for household or domestic purposes, to be produced in works permanently established in the Province, and to be manufactured either wholly or to a large extent from material obtained in the Province.

Proposals will be received at the Provincial Government Offices, Dunedin, until the 1st of October, 1874, and should state the estimated cost and productive power of the works proposed to be erected, the date at which the same will be in operation, and that the parties will be bound in the sum of £100 to produce pottery to the value of £300, within two years from the date on which their offer is accepted.

D. REID, Provincial Secretary.

24th June, 1874.

INCENDIARISM.

Maliciously setting fire to two Stacks of Wheat and Oats and one stack of Hay.

£100 REWARD.

And a Free Pardon to an Accomplice.

WHEREAS between 5 and 10 o’clock on the morning of the 8th instant two stacks of Wheat and Oats and one of Hay, situate at Grange Farm, near Alexandra, the property of Thomas Oliver, were discovered on fire, by which they were destroyed: And whereas at an inquest held on the 20th instant to enquire as to the origin of the said fire the Jury returned the following verdict: “That the stacks were set on fire by some person or persons unknown.”

Notice is hereby given that a reward of £100 will be paid by Provincial Government of Otago to any person