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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4891, 24 November 1876, Page 3

Funeral Notices THE Funeral Procession of CHARLES HURSTHOUSE, Esq!, will leave Mount View Asylum THIS DAY (FIHDAY)> at 3 o'clock p.m. Friends are respectfully invited, W. NICHOLSON. • Public Companies. ' ABRIDGED Prospectus of the Wellington CITY TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED. To be incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies’ Act, 1860, Capital, £40,000, in 8000 Shares of £5 each, with power to increase. The Promoters reserve to themselves the right to allot only 75 per cent, of the shares applied for. Payments per share—ss. on application ; 10s. on allotment; 10s. one month after allotment ; 10s. three months after allotment; 10s. six months after allotment; 10s. nine months after allotment; 10s. twelve months after allotment, and the balance in calls of not more than 10s. each at intervals of not less than three months from the date of the call preceding. Promoters : John Henderson, C.E. Charles O’Neill, C.E. Thomas Kennedy Macdonald. Bankers : The Bank of New Zealand. Offices : Temple Chambers, Wellington. At the pressing request of a large number of, the residents of the City, the promoters of the Wellington City Tramways have decided to allow the public an interest in their undertaking by forming it into a Joint Stock Company. From careful calculations a return of upwards of 20 per cent, per annum is expected, but the promoters guarantee 10 per cent, from the date of allotment of shares up to the end of 1878. The share list will be only open for a limited period, and prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained from the Bank of New Zealand, or from the promoters. Intending shareholders’should send in their applications without delay. Government Notices Public Works Office, (Colonial Architect’s Branch), Wellington, November 4, 1876. TENDERS are invited for the Erection of Public Offices for the General Government at Gisborne. : General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at the office of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, and at the Public Works Offices, Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland. Tenders addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside “Tenders for Public Offices, Gisborne,” will be received at the office of the undersigned up to noon of Thursday, the 30th day of November, 1876. Telegraphic tenders will be received provided the original tender and deposit are lodged with the nearest District Engineer at the time above specified. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the COOK STRAIT CABLE has been Buoyed with a Red Buoy, Staff and Flag flying, about six miles S.W. from Penoarrow Lighthouse, with the following magnetic bearings, viz.:— Penoarrow Light, N.E. JN. )-Sinclair Head, N.W. G. R. SIMS, Commander s.s. Agnes. A SECOND CABLE BUOY has been put down under the following magnetic bearings, viz.:— i Taourakira Head, E. by N. Cape Terawiti, N.W. 4 N. Point Palmer, N.E, by N. G. R. SIMS, • Commander s.s. Agnes. Wellington, 9th November, 1876.. . LOST. —Yesterday afternoon, two Letters, addressed Mace and Dixon, Hokitika. The finder will oblige by leaving same at Mace and ArkeU's Brewery.