THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 581

Cheltenham,
Chester,
Clifton,
Brighton,
Liverpool,

2 to the College of Preceptors,
3 to the Science and Art Department.
I propose that the following Exhibitions shall be
given to Artisans only:-
3 to the Society of Arts,
Also one for Artisans to each of the following
towns:-
Birmingham,
Bristol,
Swansea and Cardiff,
Huddersfield or Halifax,
Leeds,
Northampton,
Sheffield;

and if there be any of the above unapplied, they may
be given by the Science and Art Department to any
other Scholastic institution which makes satisfactory
arrangements for affording instruction in Mathematics
and Mechanics, Freehand and Mechanical Drawing.
IX. I would point out that the Exhibitions to
Artisans may perhaps be increased to £50 for the
year, by connecting them with the Science and Art
Department, under the Minute of the 21st December,
1867.

Manchester, 4th May, 1868.
JOSEPH WHITWORTH.

MINUTE ON MR. WHITWORTH'S OFFER TO ENDOW
SCHOLARSHIPS.

At Whitehall the 27th day of March, 1868.
By the Right Honourable the Lords of the Com-
mittee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council on Education.

My Lords consider Mr. Whitworth's letter to the
First Lord of the Treasury, dated 18th March, 1868.
In this letter, Mr. Whitworth offers to found thirty
scholarships of the annual value of one hundred
pounds each, to be applied for the further instruction
of young men, natives of the United Kingdom,
selected by open competition for their intelligence
and proficiency in the theory and practice of
Mechanics and its cognate Sciences, with a view to
the promotion of Engineering and Mechanical
Industry in this country; and he expresses hopes
that means may be found for bringing Science and
Industry into closer relation with each other than at
present obtains here.

It is unnecessary now to repeat the thanks which
the First Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury and the
Lord President of the Council have already conveyed
to Mr. Whitworth for his generous offer, which, they
are convinced, the country will fully appreciate.

Mr. Whitworth proposes that these Scholarships
should be tenable on conditions to be defined by a
deed of trust regulating the administration of the
Endowment Fund during his life, and that thereafter
the management of this fund, subject to the condi-
tions specified therein, should rest in the Lord
President of the Council or other Minister of Public
Instruction for the time being.

It is the wish of My Lords to see provision made
in several large centres of manufacturing industry in
the United Kingdom, for affording to all classes of
Her Majesty's subjects ample opportunities for
acquiring instruction in the Sciences which are
applicable to productive industry. My Lords are of
opinion, that by the union of local and private efforts,
supplemented as far as is proper by State assistance,
this provision will be best made.

This will be rendered easy if the munificent
example set by Mr. Whitworth shall be extensively
followed by others.

My Lords will be happy to receive any further
suggestions from Mr. Whitworth, should he desire
to make them, and to be informed if the Department
can render him any assistance in carrying out his
liberal intentions.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM MCGRIGOR MURRAY, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Births,
Deaths and Marriages, for the District of Popotuna,
as the same is defined in Proclamation of 24th
day of June, 1868, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 35, of 29th June, 1868.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FREDRICK GEORGE DOWNES, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Port
Chalmers, as the same is defined in Proclamation
of 30th day of November, 1865, and published in
New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of 11th day of December,
1865.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY GAISFORD, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the District of Hampden,
for the election of Members of the Provincial
Council of Hawke's Bay, vice Thomas Tanner, Esq.,
resigned.

WILLIAM FOX
(in absence of Colonial Secretary).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1869.

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with clause
133 of "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1867," the name of the following person has been
sent in to this office by the Town Clerk as having
been elected Mayor for the Borough set opposite his
name:-

SAMUEL BOYLE, Esq., Hokitika.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the under-mentioned
persons, viz.:-

Name. Residence. Occupation.
Samuel Amsel Meyer- Hokitika ... Storekeeper.
stein
Bartholomew Dellepiane Auckland ... Mariner.
Francis Anderson Hokitika ... Farmer.
William Theodore John- Tuapeka, Otago ... Miner.
son

W. GISBORNE.