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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4951, 3 February 1877, Page 4

Boots. Stationery, &c. rp A. BOW DEN.AND SONS list or NEW BOOKS AND SERIAL VOLUMES, Just received. The Races of Man and their Geographical Distribution—Peachel Finger Ring Love—Jones, F.S.A. Tom Sawyer—Mark Twain Golden Lives, biographies of the day—H. A. Page , Land of the White Bear Cruise of the Pandora to : Franklin Straits, 1875 —Lieut. Innes-Lillingston, R.N. - Jack Afloat and Ashore—Rowe Language and its Study—Whitney Parkwater—Mrs. Henry Wood A Settler’s Fare Due South—Kennaway Noctes Ambrosinse-—edited by Skelton The Great Army, by the “River SideVisitor” The Gentle Life ; Essays in aid of the Formation of Character; in two vols. ■■ The Better Self—by the same author Her Title of Honor—Holme Lee Valentine and his Brother—Mrs. Oliphaht This Troublesome World—Lady Barker Hurlock Chase—Sargent - . The Months—illustrated by pen and pencil , Mysterious Island Abandoned —Verne Scientific London —Beokot Book of Scottishs-Story ! The Naggletons, by Shirley Brooks Forty -Years of American Life—Nichols | . Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Primitive Man-—Figuier : v | Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid-^; Smyth - • ; : Sports and Pastimes of the English People—Strutt - Romance of Astronomy—Miller * 1 Fiji, our new Province in the South Seas —De Ricci Explorations in Australia Forest The Great Ice Age—Geikie ; Men of the Time, new edition ANNUALS. The Quiver ' Sunday'Magazine ■ Routledge’s' Every-Boy’s Annual • Belgravia Chatterbox .Sunday Peep-show Little Wide-awake Childs’'Companion ' Cottager and Artizan &c., ■ &c., &c. T. A. BOWDEN AND SONS, BOOKSELLERS, : Featherston-street. Prospectuses. PROSP E C T U S ■ OP THE ■ ■ NEW ZEALAND SILVER MINING COMPANY (LIMITED), . Mount Rangitoto, County of Westland, N.Z. Capital, £40,000, in 8000 shares of £5 each; payableaa follows; —Fiveshillings on application; five shillings bn allotment; the balance on calls not exceeding 2s.’6d. per month. ; Head Office to be at Dunedin or Wellington, according to decision of majority of shareholders. Provisional Directors : Messrs. S. M. . South, J. B. Hudson, and Henry Young, Hokitika. Dunedin Broker : Mr. J. B. Bradshaw, Bank of New Zealand. The object of the proposed company Is to work a mineral lease- of 500 acres, situate at Mount Rangitoto, County of Westland, formerly known aa Hudson’s Lease,.which lease has since been purchased from the ■ Waste Lands Board.by Mr. Henry Young. The: Lease is known as No. 2, West of the Mount Rangitoto Company’s mine. The area secured is 500 acres, on which two distinct lodes of ore—one fifteen inches, and the other varying from three to five feet in ■ width—outcrop. , ' Mr. ■ Arthur,: Mining Surveyor, who has recently returned from completing a, survey of the Lease, reports as follows “I may state that in addition' to: lodes formerly reported on, Mr. Palmer, oneof the original prospectors of the Mount Rangitoto Silver Mine, who kindly volunteered his assistance in the survey, discovered a large lode in one of the creeks running-through this Lease, the position, of .which you will see on the plan, and marked “quartz reef.” The reef is from fifteen to eighteen feet in thickness, and bearing east .13 deg. south, and west. 13 deg. north, underlying to the north at an angle of about 80 degrees: This lode is' in a direct line with those now being worked by the Prospectors’ Company, and shows both galena and pyrites. Mr. Palmer also discovered a great quantity'of stream tin in two different creeks in the Lease, some of the boulders being from two to three hundredweight. I am of the opinion that an immense tin lode must also, run through the Lease, from the quantity of stream tin in the two creeks,” . : ■ - The. original prospectors of the Mount, Rangitoto Company’s Mine also report as fol-. lows upon this lease:—' “Two lodes of ore similar to thostf in the Mount Rangitoto Company’s Mine outcrop in this Lease, one of fifteen inches—the other varies from three to five feet in thickness.”! ; It is, proposed t.o engage, from California a thoroughly, competent ;«nd ’experienced silver mining manager, and to have the mine developed and worked on sound scientific .principles, and with the’‘latest machinery. l As there is an abundant supply of waiter’and timber in the immediate vicinity of , the minei and the Government have now ■in progress 'a line ■of road which will conhect'the Mount 1 Rahgitoto Mines with the main Hokitika road,'it is . expected that the working of the mine will he conducted with' facility and economy. . On transferring the property to the proposed company, the promoters will receive 2000 fully ,paid-up £5 shares, and the sum of £IOOO in cash, ; Early application for shares will_ be neoes-. aary. as the promoters confidently expect applications for fully double the number ? of shares to be allotted. " Applications' will be received at any of the principal branches of the Bank of New Zealand throughput'the,colony, or by . 1 - - : HENRY YOUNG; - ‘ / Hokitika, Interim Secretary'. ; ONE Y T O . L E N D Several sums of Money, tor Investment Freehold or Leasehold Securities. ■ , , MOORHOUSE & STAFFORD, Solicitors, Wellington.