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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5680, 13 June 1879, Page 3

In Bankruptcy £SSSS®I IE THE SUPREME COURT OP NEW ZEALAND, WELLINGTON DISTRICT. IN THE MATTER OP THE DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT, 1876, And Of the Bankruptcy of CHARLES PRYKE, of Pahautanui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, Hotelkeeper, a debtor. THIS is to notify that Charles Pryke, of Pahautanui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, did this day tile in the Supreme Court at Wellington a declaration of his inability to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting of creditors to be held at the Supreme Court House, Lambton-quay, Wellington, on TUESDAY, the seventeenth day of JUNE, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, at 12 o’clock noon. Dated this twelfth day of June, 1879. (Signe-l) H. C. WILMER, Deputy-Registrar. J. G. Allan, Solicitor for the Debtor. Tenders OTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Public Works Office, Wellington, 7th June, 1879. TENDERS will be received at this office np to Noon on WEDNESDAY, the eighteenth day of JUNE, 1879, for Kerbing, Formation, and Gravelling Footpaths of portions of Whitmore and Featherston streets and Waterlooquay, and the whole of Ballanoe, Stout, aud Magiunity streets, on Thorndon reclamation, Wellington. Plans and specifications may be seen at this office, and at the office of the City Surveyor, Wellington. J. D. BAIRD, Engineer-in-oharge. w EST WANGANUI COAL PANY (Limited). NOTICE. COMTENDERS will be received at, the Company’s Offices, up to noon on SATURDAY, the 14th instant, for the purchase, in lots of five tons and upwards, of the cargo of Coals (about 50 tons more or less), shortly expected per Aspasia, from West Wanganui. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By order, R. S. LEDGER. Secretary. 10th June, 1879. Prospectus PR O S PECTUS OF THE VICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). Incorporated under the Companies Statute, 1864. Capital : £1,000,000, of 100,000 Shares of £lO each. Head Office : Melbourne. Directors : The Honorable Henry Miller (Chairman) The Honorable H. J. Wrixon William Hoffman, Esq. George Kirk, Esq. Henry Darlot, Esq. Edward Miller, Esq. This company will take over the large business of the present Victoria Fire aud Marine Insurance Company, so well known as a highly successful institution for the last thirty years, during which period it has never failed to pay substantial dividends to the shareholders. Branches and Agencies have b;en established for many years all over Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, aud at London ; and the public are now offered participation in this already formed and flourishing concern, as hereunder. The present Victoria fire and Marine Insurance Company ceases operations on 30th day of June next. The shareholders of the present company, in consideration for their goodwill of the business, will be allowed to take up 40,000 Shares at par. The balance of the Shares, viz., 60,000, are offered to the public of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania, at a premium of £1 per Share, which premium will go to the credit of the new company. A Call of 10s. per share will be made upon allotment, and in three months another Call of similar amount may be made. Applications for Shares in New Zealand will be received until Monday, the 23rd day of June next, at the various Branches and Agencies of the National Bank of New Zealand (Limited). Every application must be accompanied by a cash deposit of £1 per Share for the premium, which premium will be returned in full on each Share not allotted, should the demand for shares exceed the number for distribution. The company will commence to do business on the Ist July. JOSEPH COLLIE, Secretary. Melbourne, 6th May, 1879. MESSES. LEVIN AND CO., Wellington. Conveyances NAPIER SERVICES. mday, Wednesday, and Friday, isterton 3.15 p.m. etahunaarj. 0 p.m. etahuna, dep. folowing mornng 4.15 a.m. ipua 2. 0 p.m. 6.30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Napier, dep. 7.35a.m. Kopua 11.45 a.m. Eketahuna 8.80 p.m. Eketahuna, dep. folio wi n g morning 7. 0 a.m. Maaterton 11. 0 a.m. HASTWELL, MACAEA, AND CO., OTICE WELLINGTON TO FOXTON DAILY. COBB AND CO.’S TELEGRAPH LINE OF COACHES. PASSENGERS BY COACH are requirec to book the day before starting, to ensure their seats. Office at Mountain's New Zealander Hotel, Manners-street. S. SMITH, Agent. Habtwell, Macara, and Co., Proprietors. Every care taken of parcels for the Wairarapa. M Money o N E Y. WANTED TO BORROW, on first-class Freehold Securities, with large margin, for a term of years, at full current rates of interest, sums from £IOO to £20,000. CHAS. POWNALL & CO., Scriveners, Grey-street. Missing Friends TOM MEDLAND RIDGE, Your father, John Ridge, upholsterer, of 60 North End, Croydon, England, died on 4th March, 1879. Please communicate with your friends at above address. IP this should meet the eye of THOMAS PENROSE, or any of his friends, please write to his brother, CHARLES PENROSE, Waitara.