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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 778, 2 October 1852, Page 2

Nelson Mining Company. WANTED, a Person competent to * V superintend the Mining and Working of the Company's Coal Field at Pakawau. Applications, accompanied by testimonials and specifying the amount of salary required, to be forwarded to W. T. LOCKE TRAVERS, Secretary to the Company, Nelson, / New Zealand. Nelson, September 22, 1852.

TV"ELSON MINING COMPANY.— -*-~ Capital £3,150, in 600 shares of £5, ss. each, with power to increase the capital by additional shares ; deposit, ss. per share. Provisional Committee — Messrs. Monro, Stafford, Buxton, Renwick, Elliott, Bush, Wells.Moorb, Wilson, Frazer.Foy/Finline, and Outridge (with power to add to their number.) Secretary pro. tern., Mr. Travers ;

Treasurer, Mr. W. R. Nicholson. The Company has been established for the purpose of acquiring and working the Coal Mines lately discovered at Pakawau, in Massacre

Bay. It has been resolved that, so soon as 400 shares are subscribed for, the Company shall be deemed to be established. That in the constitution of the Company every share should confer a vote, and that no alteration should he made in the fundamental principles of the Company, unless the votes in favour of such alteration represent two-thirds of the capital of the Company. That at meetings of shareholders all voting

should be by ballot. That shareholders residing more than five miles distant from the place of meeting should be at liberty to vote i>y proxy, but that at ordinary meetings of shareholders no person should act as proxy for mere than two shareholders. That all the estates of the Company should be vested in trustees for the benefit of the Company such trustees to be elected in the usual

--manner. That in the deed of settlement of the Company all usual and necessary clauses should be introduced to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their respective shares; and further to secure this object, that application should be made as early as possible for a charter of incorporation. The Coal discovered at Pakawau has. been pronounced to be of excellent quality, quite free from sulphurous and other noxious smells, and adapted to every economical and manufacturing purpose, and the promoters of the Company conceive it to be of great importance to the interests of the settlement that it should be worked at as early a period as possible. The Company will take the earliest possible steps to obtain accurate surveys of, and reports upon, the Coal Fields, and are now in correspondence with the Government on the subject of acquiring a block of land in the district. Persons desirous of taking shares are requested to apply to the Secretary or Treasurer, or to Messrs. Heney, Johnston, & Co., Wellington, at whose offices share lists are now opened. All persons applying for shaies are requested to pay the deposit at the same time, as no applications will be received winch are not accompanied by such payment. No call will be made, or payment required beyond the deposit, until the Company has been established, and the diiectors have been elected. By order of the Provisional Committee, W. T. LOCKE TRAVERS, Secretary pro. tern. Nelson, September 22, 1852.

Splendid Investments FOR SALE,

A FREEHOLD PROPERTY, consisting of Two Houses (nearly new and lined throughout), with laige Garden attached to each, let to respectable tenants, and yielding an annual rental of Forty- seven Pounds. Apply to EDWARDS & HAYDEN, Willis-street. September 18, 1852.

Ex "Persia." AND ON SALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED. TTORSE Nails, Cabinetand Glass Paper -*--*- Patent Shot, all numbers Hall and Sons' Gunpowder Sash Weights, Iron Weights, 7 14 and 28 lbs. Black and Bronzed' Fenders Steel Fire Irons Shot Belts and Powder Flasks . Norfolk Latches, Hooks and Eyes Rim and Cabinet Keys, assorted Plate and Rim Locks Brass and Iron Sail Thimbles Brass, Chest, Till and Desk Locks Iron, Chest, Till and Cupboard Locks Hasps and Staples, Staples for Locks Catches, Keeps and Latches for Norfolk Latches Iron Stands, Milk-Yokes and Spade Handles Bill Files, Hair Brooms Shoe,- Scrubbing and Bannister Brushes . Brass Curtain Pins and Bands Sheep and Cattle Bells Japanned and Brass Chamber Candlesticks Egg Boilers, Copper Scales Counter Weighing Machines Steelyards 112 to 400 lbs. .Jelly and Pudding Moulds Tin Baking Dishes, Cashboxes €orkscrews, Tea and Table Spoons Skewers Cast Steel Pit and Cross Cut Saws Cut and Wrought Tacks Cast Iron Frying Pans, Marbles Girdles, Japanned Lamp Heads Japanned Cruet Frames with 3 4 5 and 6 bottles each Looking Glasses, Solar Lamp Chimneys Tweezers and Ear Picks, Cruet Bottles Mahogany, Zebra Wood and Japanned Drawer

Knobs Flat Irons, Japanned T Hinges Smoothing, Jack and Trying Planes Saucepans, Butter Prints Small Telescopes Welsh and Turkey Oil Stones Carpenters' Baskets Dustpans and Cinder Sifters Horn and Glass Lanterns Shingle Nails " Newcastle Grindstones 14 to 30 inches

J. E. WATKIN. Wellington, Septembei l"i, 1852.