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New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 964, 11 July 1855, Page 4

PROSPECTUS OF TUE WAIUKU IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. [TO BE INCORPORATE!) BY AN ACT OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,] Capital £9,009, in 1,800 £5 Shares. Chairman: Provisional Committee ,* Secretary: Engineer: Solicitor: Banker st 1. rsnjTE object of this Company is, as its S title denotes, to improve the Waiuku District. . . 2. In the present slate of the Country, it is not proposed to construct cither difficult or expensive works, but only such as will increase production by facilitating communication without weighing upon the resources of the Province, or expending more money than is warranted by the present trade of the Southern District. 5. The immediate improvements proposed, consist of—a Pier at Onehunga ; one at Waiuku ; a single track metalled Road from Waiuku to Purapura; the construction of a few temporary crib locks on the Awaroa River , the deepening of a shoal on the Waikato Diver; and the blasting of the rocks which form dangerous rapids on the Waipa. A. Should the funds of the Company admit of it, after the above works are constructed, steamers will be placed by them on the Manukau, the Waikato, and Waipa Rivers, and those improvements extended according to the requirements of the trade. fj. In order to enable the Company to carry out, in an efficient manner, the requisite improvements, it is proposed to apply lo the Provincial Council for an Act of Incorporation, conferring upon them the usual powers granted (o,such Companies. 6. It is further proposed to seek from the Council a grant of land as an endowment for the Company. 7. As the want of fuel is now being experienced, as well as from its increased price, the Company intend to request the Government lo purchase for them from the natives (the Company providing the necessary funds) the tract of land containing coal on the Waikato ami Waipa Rivers; with the intention of working the same for the advantage and improvement of the Province in general, and more particularly of the Southern District,

8. Also for power lo increase Iheir Capital within specified limits in proportion as the requirements of the public shall demand an extension of their works. 9. The large quantities of fish in the Waiuka waters, which would prove invaluable to the new settler, will render it advisable for the proposed Company lo introduce into their Act of Incorporation a clause empowering them to work (he same, or to assist private enterprise in doing so. 10. The provisional Committee consider that in bringing this most important improvement before the public of Auckland, they are conferring a general benefit on the community, and the Committee are therefore led to hope that all will unite to forward an undertaking which is entirely independent of all parly or personal feeling, and intended solely to advance the public good. Estimated Cost or Proposed Works. I. s. d. Estimated Yearly Revenue, Calculated according to (he present trade of the Southern District. I, s. d. Toll (on GOO tons of produce delivered at Papaknra) for improvements on Waipa, Waikato, and Awaroa lockage, per ton, M. 2s, ... Toll on same on road from Purapura to Waiuku, at one shilling per ton Toll for wharfage at Waiuku, at one shilling per (on Toll at Onehunga on 2000 tons of goods of various kinds, exported and imported there; at (wo shillings per (on Toll from Waiuku to Waipa on 200 lons of dutiable goods imported there U. per ton C6O 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0

Total Yearly Revenue . 1120 0 0 Or very nearly Thirteen per Cent, on the Capital. Arthur S. Ohmsby, (Civil Engineer) lion. Secretary, Waiuku Improvement Cominittco HOLLOWAYS PILLS. SOLD by Messrs. BROWN ami HAMILTON Sole Agents at Auckland, A Lady cured of Asthma after Twenty Years Suffering, by the use of Holloway's Pills. T II E Wholesale Agent for the sale o ■ Holloway’s Pills in New South Wales, alludes, in a letter to Professor Holloway, to several extraordinary cures of Asthma, effected in that Colony, by the use of these invaluable Pills; and to one case in particular —that of a dy residing near a hill named the Kazorback, who, alter having for twenty years been articled with great difficulty of breathing, and unable, in consequence, to bear the slightest exertion, at last used this remedy, and is now, to use her own expression, able to run to the top of that high hill. Extraordinary cure of Rheumatic Fever by Holloway's Pills, in Van Diemen's Land. Margaret M‘Connigan, nineteen years ol age, residing at New Town, had been suffering from a violent rheumatic fever for upwards of two months, which had entirely deprived her of the use of her limbs. During this period she was under the care of three of the most eminent medical men in Hobart Town, and by them her case was considered hopeless. A friend prevailed npon her parents to try Holloway’s celebrated Pills, wind they consented to do, and in an incredib y shor space of time a perfect cure was e) cled. The particulars of this case are copied from the ‘Hobart Town Courier.’