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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 979, 14 June 1872, Page 4

Miscellaneous. mk b. NOTICE. INANGAHUA AND CENTRAL BULLER DISTRICT. niME noxt Sittings of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts will be held at Christy's on Tuesday, \Bth June; and at the Lyell on Wednesday, the 19th June. In the event of the weather preventing travelling the Court will stand adjourned from day to day. CHARLES BROAD, Resident Magistrate and Warden. SOUTH PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (limited). Capital—£2oo,ooo, In 20,000 Shares of £lO each ; £G of which will he at once called up, viz., £1 on application and £5 on allotment. For the convenience of investors, one-half of the called amount may bo paid by bills at three and six months, bearing 8 per cent, interest. If no allotment is made, the deposit money will be returned in full. Provisional Directors : Hon. Edward Cohen, M.P. Charles Croaker, Esq. (Messrs Croaker, Scott, and Co. Chas. Ibbotson, Esq. (Messrs Dalgety, Ibbotson, and Co., Geelong). Hon. U, J. Jenner, M.L.C. Captain Hugh Macraeikan R. Twentyman, Esq. Bankers Union Bank of Australia. Solicitous : Messrs Macgregor, Ramsay, & Braho. Bbokeii; Mr John Watson, Seceexauy, pro tern. : Mr Edward Langton, M.P. Temporary office : 6S, Temple Court, Melbourne.

The object of the Company is to procure and maintain a fleet of firstclass steamers, to be employed in tho trade between the seveval Australian Colonies and JS T ew Zealand, and in such other branches of trade as may be considered advisable. In the first instance, it is proposed to purchase the undermentioned wellknown vessels, now the property of Messrs M'Meckan and Blackwood, who arc retiring from business, their partnership expiring, by effluxion of time, at the end of June next: — Omeo—B2o tons, 120-horse power. Ai/bton—Bo6 tons, IGO horse power. Alhambha—7Gs tons, 140 horse power. Tarartja—G92 tons, 155 horse power. Gothenburg, 67-4 tons, 120 horse power. CLA.UD Hamilton—GGl tons. 100 horse power. Eangitoto—s74 tons, 140 horse power. Aldinga—447 tons, 140 horse power. Coorong—39o tons, 70 horse power These vessels are all registered at Melbourne. They have all been recently surveyed by Mr William Duthie, late surveyor to the Southern Insurance Company ; Captain M'Galium, surveyor to Lloyds'; and Mr Alexander Kirkwood, formerly foreman to Messrs Scott, Russell, and Go., of London, and for years past superintending Engineer for the above steamships. The reports of these gentlemen show that the vessels have been kept in excellent condition, and are now in first-ciass order. They can be delivered to the Company, free from any incumbrance, aa they arrive in the port of Melbourne, after the 10th of June next, without interruption to the several trades in which thoy are engaged. In addition to the steamships, Messrs M'Meckan and Blackwood will sell to the Company the land situated at the corneF of Flinders and King streets, Melbourne, having a frontage of 59ft to Flinders street by a depth of 113 ft, upon which stands the offices and stores where the business has hitherto been conducted, and other buildings let to tenants. The price at which the - steamships, premises, and goodwill of the business are offered to the Company is £165,000, which includes all the spare gear, sails, yards, shafts, propellers, machinery, &c, whether on board or on shore, and all the stores and coal on board when they arrive; and also includes the cost of supplying boilers, condencers, and putnps to the Claud Hamilton, which have been already contrapted for. In the event of the loss of either of the vessels before delivery, a deduction from the purchase