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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 960, 13 July 1881, Page 3

Gisborne Library. f1 1 HE Annual Meeting of Subscribers wil be held in the Reading Room on SATURDAY the 13th August, for the purpose of receiving the report, and election of Members of Committee for the ensuing year. EDWIN WOON, 240 Hon. See.

The Public Trust Office. Guaranteed by the State. ALTHOUGH this Office has been in existence for a period of more than seven years, it is believed that the objects for which it was established are not sufficiently known or understood. It is desired to set forth in a concise form information respecting the business which this office undertakes :— 1. The charge of all kinds of money trusts, such as Marriage Settlements, moneys to be invested for the benefit of Minors, moneys bequeathed for charitable objects, moneys the title to which is in dispute, or whose legal owner is unknown or cannot be found, &c., &c. 2. The administration of the Wills of persons who by appointing the Public Trustee as their executor secure the guarantee of the State for the due fulfilment of their wishes, and avoid the risk consequent on the appointment of private persons as executors, who not unfrequently, though earnestly desirous of acting for the benefit of parties interested, fail to carry out legally the objects for which they were appointed, and consequently involve themselves and those whose interests they are striving to protect in costly and harassing litigation. 3' The administration of all estates of which no disposition has been made by will, whenever relatives do not wish to incur the responsibility of administration, or cannot from any cause obtain the necessary powers to act. In such cases it is the duty of the Public Trustee to discharge all legal debts so far as the assets extend, and divide the residue amongst the next of kin. 4. The administration of the estates of lunatics, lunatic patients, and convicts. 5. The charge of all lands lying waste and unoccupied of which the owner is unknown, or who has been absent from the Colony for ten years, having left no known agent. The cost of administering estates is very small. Information may be obtained from all agents. R C. HAMERTON, 270 Public Trustee.

Abridged prospectus of the EAST COAST NATIVE LAND AND SETTLEMENT COMPANY (Limited.) Capital, £500,000, in 100,000 shares of £5 each ; whereof 70,000 w’ill be allotted to the Aboriginal Native Contributors of Land called “ Original Shares,” and 30,000 to European subscribers of capital, and called “ Capitalist Shares.” First issue of Capitalist Shares 20,000, payable as follows : —ss on application, 5s on allotment; subsequent calls, if they are required, not to exceed 5s each, nor to be made at intervals of less than three months. Provisional Directors. John Barraclough, Esq., Oamaru Horace Bastings, Esq., M.H.R., Dunedin F. H. D. Bell, Esq., Wellington Joseph Bennett, Esq., Auckland Wm. Buchanan, Esq., Auckland John Buchanan, Esq., Napier W. Coleman, Esq., Auckland J. M. Dargaville, Esq., Auckland C. A. De Lautour, Esq., M.H.R., Gisborne G. Fenwick, Esq., Dunedin Allan Macdonald, Esq., M.H.R., Gisborne D. H. Mackenzie, Esq., Auckland F. J. Moss, Esq., M.H.R., Auckland Hon. H. R. Russell, M.L.C., Hawke’s Bay Hon. W. H. Reynolds, M.L.C., Dunedin Wiremu Pere, Native Chief, Gisborne Henare Potae, Native Chief, Tokomaru Bay J. B. Poynter, Esq., Gisborne D. Proudfoot, Esq., Dunedin C. A. Pritchard, Esq., Christchurch Montagu Pym, Esq., Dunedin G. M. Reed, Esq., Gisborne W. L. Rees, Esq., Gisborne R. 11. J. Reeves, Esq., M.H.R., Nelson R. C. Reid, Esq., M.H.R., Hokitika H. C. Robjohn, Esq., Napier Major Ropata, Native Chief, Tokomaru Bay J. M. Sliera, Esq., Auckland R. Stout, Esq., Dunedin J. S. M. Thompson, Esq., Wellington W. H. Tucker, Esq., J.P., Gisborne R. W r ilson, Esq., Dunedin Solicitors : Wellington—Messrs Sievwright & Stout. Gisborne—W. L. Rees. Bankers : The Colonial Bank of New Zealand. Brokers and Agents : Dunedin —J. B. Bradshaw Wellington —Lidbetter & Cooper. Auckland —A. Saundeis Oamaru —-Joseph Booth. Greymouth —G. M. Moss Hokitika—Messrs. Wade & Spence Christchurch —T. B. Craig Napier—M. R. Miller