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Evening Star, Issue 4240, 28 September 1876, Page 4

Prosperous. iPEOSPEOTUS USTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY (LIMITED). Head Office ... ... Melbourne. Capital—£2so,ooo, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each. To be registered under the " Companies Statute, 1864." and the liability of the .shareholders will be limited to the amount of the subscribed Bhares. It is intended to call ui LIOO.OOO within the next twelve months, payable— I 1 per share on application, l 1 10s on allotment, and the balanc) by calls not exceeding L2 10s each, but on not less than three months' previous notice. L 50.000 of the amount to be called np has already been subscribed in Melbourne and Mew Zealand before the issue of this Prospectus. Provisional Dieectobb, With power to add to their number (To remain in office for twelve months after the regidtrati n of the ■ omp my). J''SKPK Esq., Melbourne UAVII) SPENCc;. Esq., of Meson Spence Bros, and Co., Melbourne J. H WHITE Esq., of Messrs J. H. White and Co , Melbourne H. B. D NALDS N, Esq., of Messrs H. B. I'onakUon and Co., Melbourne WILLIAM CROSRY, Esq , of Messrs William Crosby and Co., riobart Town and Me bonrne JAS. M'CULLOCH, Esq., Queen street, Melbourne WILLTAM YOT7*G, E?q.. of Messrs William Young and Co., Melb urne WM M'PHERSON, T so.. Invercarsill, N.Z , of Messrs Wm. M'Fnerson and Co. W. J. M. 1 ARN Fsq., Dunedin, N.Z., of Messrs Guthrie and Larnach WAI.TEK TUHNK»'LI.. Esq.. Wellington, N.Z., of Messrs W and G. Turnbnll and

WILLIAM T.AIDLEY, Esq., cf Messrs V' illiam Laidley and Co., S>dney, HENRY SAWT.KLL. Etq., of M ssrs Wilson, Sawtell, and Co., Christchurch. Bankers. In Melbourne—TdE COLONIAL BANK In New Zealand-THE BANK Off NEW ZEiLA D. SOLICITORS. BENNETT, ATTENBOROGH, & WILKS. AUDITORS. MESSRS JOHN TLRNBULL & W. G. Si RIG. Bhokehs. MESSRS J. B. WERE & SON, 80 Collins Btreet Weßt. Melbourne, and MR J. B BRADSHAW, Temple Chambers, Dunedin, To whom applications for shares are requested to be made, or to the ••■ gents of the Company, MESSi.S GTJ HRTE & LARtfACH, Dnn-e-.in, K ew Zealand. The Share List will close on the 30th September, 1876. T»is Company is projected by gentlemen largely interested in the New Zea'an-i trade, under the conviction that th.; exist ng commanication is i adequate for the work. Ihe promote s are convi ced that f he growing rayuHvinents of the trade i-all urgently for ad litional steim communication. They couhdeutly be ieve. and ae assured by many of he pi mcip 1 mercantile fi ms in M 1bourne and N'ew Zealand, thxt an iinp-Htan'. expansion of the traffic will certai ly follow the emmencenien. of thi Company's operations. The promoters are already in possession of particular and prices obtained from some of the first s ipbuilder* in Great Britain, of steamers best suited for the tradi with New Zetland, >tw Caledonia thn I'iji Is aeds, etc. Such ste merß may be briefly des ribed as vessels of larg* capacity on such a draft of wa'er as will enable them to take their cargoes to and from the wh rve j , with accommodation for about 200 first and second class passenges, and steaming fnl y 12 km >ts an hour with the latest improv d com, ound engines for economising fuel and space. The promoters have great confidence in pi cing the pre-ent enterprise before the public, based on thu marked i-uecess of the large and i ere <sing number of steamers trading on our coasts there being now registered as belonging to the Port of Melbourne rixty-one steam vessels f a 1 descriptions, which have grown out of the earnings of twelve i-teamers «>f all sorts belonging to the port in 1853, and the increa-e of vessels employt-d in the New Zealad trade is perhaps more marked than anv other. is desired further to direct attention -o t e following f cts, tending to the rdvanta/e of the project, viz :-The stimulus to trade by the established telegraphic communication between the tw.. countries. 'I h•* great r fa i ilie * for development of the lar. e grainproducing interest, • anifest in the growing trade of o;ima u and I inr-iru as well a-! the more s uthern part* of the Middle Island, for wl.kh produce Victor a can find a permanent j market. The prospect of an ea ly r virion of the Victo-ian Tar.ff in the interests of tr de and commerce. 'I he cur tive Hot », rings of TVew Zea'and as temling t-» promote an increase of visitors in que-t of health. And the large number of steamers nd pa senger ships from ■■ uro e Tndia, Chin , and me ica having their tatnini i t Mistra lian ports, carrying an increasing nuu.ber of pa-seny;er-< for or from New Zealand. All which growing interest will tend to the advantage of the new Company. Following the plan of 1 <te > dopted in England by recentlv-torm d >hippin.' Compa lies, it is pr> posed th.t the busiues- Bha 1 be managed in Melbourne as an agency, under the control of the Diiectory, thus .voiding the out lay for a lar e and cost y establi hj >;ent < Gentlemen have lately visited New Zealand m the interests of the pr posed Comp.iny. They met with a most cordial reception received numer* us subseiip ions and promises of supp rt ftao'g many t-ections of the comuiumry. In fact, interests are thua bo extensive y enisted in the Company, a- shareholders and otherwise that 11 - ew . ine f Steam*-ra cannot fail to obtain thitam le support which wi 1 render the enterprise a mo,-ens. _ In conclusion, the promoters would invite intending investors l> make prompt ap licatioi.s for sha> es, t enable th mto . ontract for the biiiioinj of the new ships while the <o t of construction rues low as at the preset time There are no spe.-itd advantage offer d to any shareholders and therefore no promoter<' i-Le ests to b paid. If no allotment is made the deposit money »ill be returned in full r orms of api lication and all nformation are obta nable from the Company's brokers, M> 1and Dnnedm, who will rectiw app ica-t-ions accompani. d by a d posit o 1,1 per s are and from the Provision <l irectors or their ap'oi tees in ;» ew Z al »nd, and at the branches of the Bark cf New Zeal nd. ho Articles of Associati n, when prepired will be open for iospoc ion at the branches <f the Bank of >ew Zealand in ew Zealand, and at the- brokers in Melbmi nc and Zealand, and at the office of the agents of tile CdinGUTHRIE & LARNACH, "Uunodin, jf.Z, |