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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 978, 25 June 1883, Page 4

—Public" Companies;' ■\TEW ZEALAND LOAN & MERiN OANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED). Capital, £3,000,000. Reserve, £200,000. Makes LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES on Freeholds, on Stations and Stock, and on growing clips of Wool. RECEIVES CONSIGNMENTS of Wool, Grain, Tallow, Leather, Hides, Skins, : etc., for sale in New Zealand, Australian, and London Markets, UNDERTAKES INDENTS of British, Continental, East Indian, and American- goods, and Co&itmsaioris in -all branches of Mercantile Business. Supplies WOOL PACKS- and: 'CORN! SACKS, at Lowest Current Rates. AGENTS IN CANTERBURY FOR— Rus,ton Proctor and Co.’s celebrated Oomr nined Threshing Machines and Engines, acknowledged to be the Best Machines imported into New

Zealand. - Felton and Guilleaume’s Patent Galvanised Steel-barb Fencing Wire. . ; Candy’s Patent Cotton. Belting. •/' ' t Maldon Island Guano.

Further particulars on application at the Company’s Offices, Christchurch or Ashburton. ■ , . JOHN COOKE, Manager, Christchurch, GEO. WILKIN, Agent, n lO Ashburton. Prospectus Prospectus OF THE Lion Brewery Co. (LIMITED), ASHBURTON. CAPITAL £20,000 - In 4,000 shares of £5 each, Of which only 2,000 shares are now offered to the public. Provisional Directors : Joseph Ivess, Esq., M.H.R * H. T. Winter, Esq ,J. P. Donald' Williamson, Eaq., Mayor of Ashburton. : Hugo Friedlander, Esq. (Messrs. Friedlander Bros.) David-j Thqmas,, Jssq. ’(Messrs. Matson, C Cfor and Co.) [ John Carter, Esq. (Messrs. Wilkin and ! C&rf&Fh;! vGJ ’ ■ ■. j 'William Horne, Esq. (N. Z. Grain i

| Joseph Clark, Esq. ! ’ Octavius'DigbyyEsq. ; Bankers —Bank of New Zealand, j Solicitor— C. W. Purnell, Esq. I Secretary, pro tem—W. H. Gundry. i The Company is proposed to be formed jfor the purpose of purchasing the projperty and business of the Lion Brewery 'Company in Ashburton. { The very extensive agricultural district, in the centre of which the town ; of AshBurton is situated, is one in which a very (large private as well as hotel trade is parried on, and the. facilities for brewing all that could be wished, and the water of better quality for the purpose than can be found elsewhere in the Province of Canterbury. ! The'Libn Brewery is situated on T.S. 566 and 367, att the corner of Dobson and Cass streets. The building is of brick, with a concrete cellar, which can be extended underground at a very small iost, and is quite new,! i having been erected about twelve months. - j The BuiliJiiig and'Elant is all of firatblassquality, well arranged and very complete, and .with the connection already established it,is anticipated that there will nodifficulty in extending the business, with the influence of the Company and aapitalr. throughout - Canterbury, but particularly throughout the ■ Ashburton County. , , ' , • J The success Which has attended the Brewery Companies in every part of the \forld offers a. l great inducement to capitalists and investors to take up shares ip GoiripAhies*of this description, and the promoters have the greatest’ confidence ip the,success of the .proposed; Company, apd hWye agreed to take One, Thousand FoflMds" Worth of fully paid lip shares should the Company desire them to do so. ( It is further proposed to obtain the ser-' vjces of a first-class brewer, to ensure a large and profitable trade being done. ; Although'fhfe nominal capital of the Company is £20,000, a comparatively is!required.to purchase the present premises and plant of the Lion Brewery, viz., £3,000, the stock being at a valuation. (The increased Capital id required to extend the present premises and business, add also to erect a malthouse. It is believed ihat malting will be a very ahle'branch’of -the 1 Company’s business, owing to the qua itity of barley grown in the immediate iistrict. jit is prouo e.l to is ue 2;000 shares only at; present hut it will bo left to the discretion of the ’Provi ional Directors to as man shares as they think desirable. •It proposed to call up £2 per share, as reijuixadi in calls.®f not more than 10s per shiire, and at intervals, after the allotmbnt r o£not less than three months. {l’he remaining shares will be issued to thp -public (preference being given to existing shareholders) as the requirements of Ithe Company develops, and it is confidently believed that a substantial premium Will be obtained on them, as in the case of other Brewery Companies, such premiums to he placed to a reserve fund, and there-by-strengthen the position of the Company. .. ,r. If the Company is not floated, the deposits will be returned in full to the applicants. '

Boarding Honses, &c. PRINCE. ALBERT BOARDING ~ . f (HOUSE. ■ In' consequence ot insufficient accommodation at the Echo Dining Rooms, the proprietor .has...taken the PRINCE ALBERT BOARDING HOUSE, whore a good table always be kept. Meals Is j leabb. 1 Gbbd Accommodation for Boarders and Travellers, at 16s, 18s, and £1 per week, to meet the times. Private Rooms for families. Remember the ad dross— Charles Truckle, Prince Albert Boarding House, Wills street, near the Pail way Station. : ' ' ‘944Panama ho ds e ■I •. (late a stee’s), , .Tanored ‘street Ashburton. The undersigned begs to inform the pubjo thafi he hits REMOVED from the Prince-Albert - Dining-rooms to the more commodious Boardihgihouse lately in the occupation of Mr Anstee, where he hopes to jnerit the same patronage bestowed upon him as/ heretofore'.- Good Bathboom. . / S, LUCAS, ’■ '■* l Proprietor. L e R.s. FOR .sale at the Guardian Office, the “ New Zealand Volunteer Drill Manus| for 18fj(3. ”, PriCe laeaoh. , 1211