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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointment.

Office of the Commissioner of Telegraphs,
2nd June, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the
Government has been pleased to appoint
ANDREW THOMAS MAGINNITY, Esq.,
to be Chief Clerk in the Telegraph Department,
Head Office, vice Daniel Inwood, Esq., resigned.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Telegraph Commissioner.

Lands reserved for Site for a Redoubt.

WHEREAS by the regulations for the sale and
disposal of lands taken under the authority
of "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and
"The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and
Continuance Act, 1865," contained in the Schedule
to an Order in Council made and issued, bearing date
the 11th of May, 1871, it is provided that reserves
for roads and all other public purposes whatever, and
for education, and the sites for churches and chapels
or other places of worship for different religious
denominations, may be made by Government out of
any confiscated lands, and that notices of all such
reserves shall be published in the New Zealand
Gazette: It is hereby notified, that the lands
specified in the Schedule hereunder written shall
be reserved for the purposes therein mentioned and
set opposite the descriptions of the said parcels of
land respectively.

18th June, 1873.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

£10,000 OFFERED AS REWARDS TO DISCOVERERS
OF NEW GOLD FIELDS.

THE following terms and conditions on which
rewards will be paid for the discovery of new
gold fields are issued in pursuance of the following
resolution of the House of Representatives, passed
on the 26th September, 1872:—

Resolved, "That, in the opinion of this House,
rewards, to the extent of £5,000 in each island,
should be offered for the discovery of new gold fields,
on specific terms and conditions to be notified by the
Government, and the House pledges itself to make
good the same."

CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH REWARDS WILL BE GIVEN
FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLD FIELDS
FROM THE DATE HEREOF TILL THE 31ST DECEM-
BER, 1874.

I. That person will be deemed the discoverer who
shall first find gold and notify the same, in writing,
either to the Superintendent of the Province, or to the
Chairman of the County of Westland, or the nearest
Warden or Resident Magistrate. In such notifica-
tion the discoverer shall state as nearly as practicable
the exact locality and the distance from the nearest
gold workings or nearest town.

II. If two or more persons simultaneously discover
gold in the same locality or in places immediately
adjacent, and they each severally comply with the
conditions above mentioned, the sum proper to be

awarded will be divided amongst the several persons
who have discovered the gold field in such manner
as shall be determined after due investigation by the
Secretary for Crown Lands or his appointee.

III. Rewards will only be given for discoveries
made public subsequently to the publication of this
notice.

Conditions applicable to North Island.

(a.) The newly discovered gold field must be
distant at least thirty miles from the nearest gold
workings.

(b.) A reward of £5,000 will be given for the first
newly-discovered gold field that yields 25,000 ounces
between the date hereof and the 31st December,
1874. Should the yield not amount to 25,000 ounces,
the reward will be reduced according to the following
graduated scale :--

£4,000 if the field yield 20,000 ounces before
31st December, 1874.
£3,000 ,, ,, 15,000 ,, ,,
£2,000 ,, ,, 10,000 ,, ,,
£1,000 ,, ,, 5,000 ,, ,,

(c.) No prospecting to be allowed on Native land
without the consent of the Native owners previously
obtained and the approval of the Native Minister.

(d.) Prospectors going on Native land without
consent of the owners are liable to the penalties
imposed by the Acts relating to Gold Fields, and
will forfeit all claim to the reward.

(e.) Native owners will be entitled to rewards,
provided that, if the discovery be made on their own
land, they enter into arrangements with the Govern-
ment for throwing such land open for mining pur-
poses to the public.

Conditions applicable to Middle Island.

(a.) The newly discovered gold field must be
distant at least 10 miles from the nearest gold
workings.

(b.) No reward shall exceed £2,000.

(c.) Rewards, not exceeding in the whole £5,000,
will be given in accordance with the following scale :—

£2,000 if the field yields 20,000 ounces before
31st December, 1874.
£1,000 ,, ,, 10,000 ,, ,,

IV. The words "nearest gold workings" shall mean
gold workings recognized as such, and on which
miners are actually employed in searching for gold.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 12th June, 1873.

Money Order Offices.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1873.

THE following Notice, received from the General
Post Office, London, is published for general
information.

By order.

W. GRAY, jun.,
(for the Secretary).

MONEY ORDER OFFICES.
ENGLAND.

1. On the 1st of April the designation of the Office
   in London at Castelnau Terrace, Barnes, S. W., will
   be changed to Castelnau, Barnes, S. W.

2. Money Order Offices will be opened in the
   Country at—