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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 6863, 20 April 1883, Page 1

Amusements, T H E N .3E XI M g- A L L < MONDAY, APRIL 23. DRAWING-ROOM ENTE RTAINMENT. NEILL PAMI LY, Kindly assisted by some of tbu leading Local Amateurs. 225 Meetings, &c. WELLINGTON PATENT SLIP COMPANY (Limited',. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. The Annual Meeting of this Company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce on MONDAY, 23rd April, 1383, at noon. Business : To receive Annual Report To elect two Directors To elect Auditors J. REES GEORGE, 193 Manager. nnilE COLONIAL INSURANCE COMJL PANY OF NEW ZEALAND, FIRE & MARINE. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. The fifth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at 3 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 16Mi May, 1883, in the Chamber of Commerce room, Lambtou.quay, Wellington. Business : To receive and adept Directors’ Report and Balance-sheet ’ To declare a dividend To elect two Directors (‘hose retiring iu accordance with the Articles of Association being Mc.-a-rs G. Randall Johnson and j. B. Harconrt, who are eligible, and olfer themselves for roclectiou) To elect two Auditors, and fix the amount of their remuneration By order. GEO. S. GRAHAM, General Manager. The Transfer Boohs are closed, and will remain so until after the above meeting. April 12th, 1883. 135 nno THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE JL COLONIAL INSUHANOI! COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Notice is hereby givm that at the Ordinary Annual Meeting of Sbarehohters to be held at the Chamber of t’omuifcee, on WEDNESDAY, the Kith May, 188 !, the following resolutions will be proposed, that is to say—• That the Articles of ABsocintiou be altered as fallows : . To omit from clause 38 the words “ twenty-ono”aad to substitute the words “ thirty clear." To omit from clause 3!) the word 11 thirty ’ and to sub-ditute the words “twentyone clear.” To add clause 76a.—’“ The Directors may, whenever they deem it expedient so to do, declare ;n interim dividend, to bo paid to shareholders in proportion to their shares.” GEO. S. GRAHAM, 176 General Manager. Sweeps Fidelity company’s £2,000 ON THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY MEETING. Races, May 24. — Close about May 19. Nominations and 40 New Zealand Bonds, Queen’s Birthday Handicap. Nominations-. First £3OO Second ... ... ••• •• 200 Third 100 All others divided (about £ls each) 200 Total No. Amount £BOO Tradesmen's Handicap. Nominations. First ... ... ... £2OO Second ... ... • ... 130 Third 100 Allothersdivided(about£l2 each) 150 Total No. Amount £6OO 20 Bonds at £2O each ... ... £4OO 20 Bonds at £lO each ... •• 200 Total of 40 Bonds £6OO The total number of Prizes is about 75, and the total amount of the event is £2OOO. There will be four separate drawings for each ticket, viz, Two drawings for the races and two separate drawings for the 40 bonds. Programmes—£l each, and two 2d stamps. Cheques (with Is exchange) to be payable to a No. or to bearer. Post Office Orders payable to Fidelity Company only. If Half Notes, send by separate Posts. No Registered Letters or Telegrams accepted. Address only to -‘Fidelity Company, care of Alfred A. Cameron’s Box No. 251, Dunedin. 156 A UCKLAND RACES; AUTUMN MEETING. APRIL 21, 1883. WILL CLOSE 20th APRIL, 4000 Members at 5s each. The drawing is made in ten sections, therefore each ticket has ten chances. First ... .. ... £3OO Second ... ... ... 150 Third ... ... ••• ... 100 Starters (divided) ... ... 250 Non-etartera (divided) .. ... 200Result slips posted immediately after drawing. N.B.—Registered letters or telegrams not received. Money orders or cheques should be drawn in favor of Nellie Grsv.” Address—“NELLlE GKaY,” (Care of G. G. Miller), Box 8, Post Office, Ouebunga, near Auckland. No tickets will be issued from Dunedin after April 13th. 40 Government Land Sales PLAINS, AIM A T E WEST COAST SETTLEMENT RESERVES. LLE OF LEASESFOR A TERM OF 21 YEARS. West Coast Settlement Reserves Office, Hawera, March 31, 1883. enders will be received at this Office, until ’clock in the forenoon of MONDAY, the 1 April, for the Leases of 70 Sections, coming 7590 acres of the above-mentioned Is. The npset rents- range from 2s to 15s acre. . ~ _ , lans and schedules of the sections, and ies of the regulations under which leases be sold and issued, also, forms of tender declaration respectively, can be obtained he District Land Offices, New Plymouth, ea, and Hawera, or at any of the other id Offices in the colony; also, at the othco ;he Collector of Customs, Wanganui; and he Post Offices, Thames, Wanganui, ReefWestport, Greymouth, Ashburton, and Qarn * THOMAS MACKAY, Reserve* Trustee,