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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 687, 21 July 1870, Page 3

PUBLIC MEETING. J. O'CONOR, M.P.C., will be . glad to meet the Electors of the District, at the MASONIC HALL on SATURDAY EVENING NEXT, the 23rd iust., at 7 o'clock. NOTICE. IHE Partnership heretofore subsist- ■ ing under a certain Deed dated the 25th day of July, 1867, and formerly carried on under the style and firm of "Fleming, Parry, and C 0.," afterwards under the style and firm of " Fleming, Parry, and Murray," and subsequently under the style and firm of " Fleming and Murray," as Drapers, in Westport, Province of Nelson, in New Zealand, has expired through effluxion of the time limited by the said Deed for the continuance of the said partnership. Dated this 18th day of July, 1870. JOHN STUART FLEMING. Witness:— "William Pitt, Solicitor, "Westport Referring* to the above notice, the business in future will be carried on by GRAVES & FLEMING, who have purchased the estate of Fleming and Murray from the trustees. NOTICE. ill Debts contracted previous to the 23rd March, 1870, and owing to the estate of Fleming and Murray must be paid at once to Graves and Fleming, Gladstone House, who are authorised to receive all monies. Legal proceedings will be instituted on all outstanding accounts after the Ist August, 1870. EXCELSIOR QUARTZ MINING COMPANY, ashman's Cheek, Lyell District. (To be Registered under " The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1565," when all the Shares are applied for.) Capital £9,600, in 960 Shares op £lO EACH. A deposit of 20s. per Share to be made on application, and a further sum of £2 per Share on allotment, as it is the intention of the promoters to commence work without delay, the balance of the Shares will be made payable at intervals of not less than one month, and not more than 20s per Share at any call, after due notice of the same has been made in the local newspapers. The Board op Directors to be appointed at a General Meeting of Shareholders immediately after all the available Shares shall have been applied for. Bankers : Bank of New Zealand. Company's Temporart Office : Jno. Munro's Offices, Molesworth-st. This Company has been formed by the amalgamation of two claims, held under miner's rights, viz. Florian and party (6), and Davie and party (6); consisting of a block of ground, measuring 720 feet, along the line of reef, by 606 feet in depth; the above interest having been assigned to Messrs M'Laren and Munro in trust for the benefit of the public Shareholders, an application has been made for a lease of the amalgamated claims under the Nelson South-West Goldfields Regulations The Reef is found cropping out on the easterly side of a range, at a height of 800 feet above the level of tbe Lyell Creek, the range being a slate formation, running N.N.E. The position of the claim, the property of the Company, is about the centre of the range, and adjoins the prospectors' claim, and it is a notable fact that Irishman's Creek, which takes its rise on the north boundary of the claim running east, has yielded 900oz of specimen gold to one party. A tunnel of 40 feet has been put in by which a well-defined reef, 12 feet thick, has been exposed, running N. and S., with a very slight underlay, on the west side again there is a perfect formation of blue slate, and on the east side is a body of wash intermixed with quartz leaders 10 feet thick; the