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West Coast Prospecting and Gold Mining Company (Registered).

I, THE undersigned, JOSEPH PAYTON do hereby make application to register "THE WEST COAST PROSPECTING AND 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 knowledge and belief, true in every particular, namely:-

1. The name and style of the Company is "The West Coast Prospecting and Gold Mining Company (Registered)."

2. The place of operations is at the West Coast of the province of Wellington.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is five hundred (500) pounds in one hundred (100) shares of five (5) pounds each.

4. The amount already paid up is fifty-five (55) pounds.

5. The name of the manager is Joseph Payton.

6. The office of the Company is at the residence of the manager at Pahautanui.

The name and several residences of the shareholders and the number of shares held by each, at this date, are as follows:

Names. Residence. No. of Shares.
Joseph Payton Pahautanui 3
Henry London do 4
Hugh M’Donald Porirua road 2
Frederick Martin Otaki 1
William Lewes Wellington 1
Thomas Hollis Stace Pahautanui 1
Malcolm Maenee do 1
Edward Boulton do 1
Thomas Gilbert do 1
Nathaniel Bartlett Tawa Flat 1
James Taylor do 1
William Earp do 1
Theophilus Bartlett do 1
Jessie Bowles Porirua road 1
William Clapham Ngahauranga 1
Henry Taylor Wellington 1
Thomas Rowell do 1
James Mitchell Porirua 1
Alexander Nicol Pahautanui 1
Andrew Orr Porirua 1
Anthony Wall, junr. do 1
David Anderson, junr. Wellington 1
Benjamin Draper Pahautanui 1
Maurice Samuels Wellington 1
James Wallace do 1
William Henry Lucas do 2
Henry Brown Porirua 1
William Cam do 1
Thomas Gilbert Pahautanui 1
James Pearce do 1
James Fisher Porirua road 1
Cornelius Fisher do 1
William Gardiner Porirua 1
Joseph Payton Pahautanui 1
James Townsend Edwards do 1
David Galloway do 1
George Spaekman, senr. Porirua 1
Frederick Bradey Pahautanui 1
Alfred Lindsey Porirua 1
John Wheeler do 1
George Spaekman, junr. do 1
Betsey Bartlett Porirua 1
Charles Stuart Pahautanui 1
J. H. Bromley, senr. Porirua 1
Isabella Bromley do 1
Frances Bradey Pahautanui 1
A. W. R. Bould Porirua 1
Joseph Bartlett do 1
James Bromley, junr. do 1
John Jones do 1
Alfred Judge Pahautanui 1
John Teal do 1
William Tappin do 1
William Henry Quicea Wellington paid up 1
Henry Abbott Pahautanui 1
Robert Hall do 1
Charles London Porirua road 1
William Edwards do 1
Mary Sole Payton Porirua road 1
Richard Spicer do 1
George Morris do 1
Charles Pryke Wellington 1
William Spinks do 1
Charles Smith Pahautanui 1
Isaac Howell do 1
Ellen Barrow do 1
James Robinson Wellington 1
h. de Nowille do 1
Richard Woodman Porirua 1
Robert Woodman do 1
James M’Ewen Pahautanui 1
Charles Duncan Porirua road 1
Robert Miller Wellington 1
William Whitehoase Porirua 1
James Moore do 1
George Henry Taylor Pahautanui 1
Thomas Florence, junr. do 1
Thomas Florence, senr. do 1
George Champion do 1
Joseph Graham do 1
Ferry William Thomas 1
Thomas William Pilcher Wellington 1
James Walker Pahautanui 1
Alfred de Bathe Brandon Wellington pd. up 1
Joseph Payton, in trust for the Company 8

Dated this fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

JOSEPH PAYTON.

Witness to signature,
WILLIAM LYON, J.P.

NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF WANGANUI BRIDGE DEBENTURES, ISSUED BY THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF WELLINGTON.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, 10th September, 1869.)

WHEREAS an Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington, Session X., No. 6, was passed, intituled "An Act to authorise the construction of a Bridge over the Wanganui River and levying of Tolls on Traffic over the same :" And whereas, under and by the authority of the said Act, the sum of £16,909 was raised for the purposes of the said Act, as therein mentioned : And whereas it is expedient that notice should be given, in accordance with the fourteenth section of the said Act, that the Debentures for the said Loan of £16,000 should be paid off:

Now therefore I, Julius Vogel, Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand, do hereby on behalf of the Government of New Zealand, and I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the said Province, do hereby, on behalf of the Government of the said Province, give notice that all Debentures issued under the said Act shall become payable at the Colonial Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand, on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

JULIUS VOGEL.

I. E. FEATHERSTON.

Wellington, 8th September, 1869.