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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 19th
June, 1873.

A copy of the said plan, marked I., is deposited
and may be seen and inspected at the Post Office,
Gisborne.

And notice is hereby further given, that all or
any person or persons affected by the making of the
said line or lines of road from Gisborne to Ormond,
from Makaraka to Pipiwaka Bush, and from Men-
dlesham to the Ferry at Wharaurangi, are required
to set forth in writing, addressed to the Governor,
and left at the office of the said Post Office, Gisborne,
within forty days from the first publication hereof,
any well-grounded objection he or they may have to
the said line or lines of road.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of June, 1873.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

£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.

Officiating Ministers registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1873.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information:—

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend HENRY JOHN EDWARDS.
The Reverend CHARLES JOHN MERTON.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Names of Officiating
Ministers, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th January; No. 9, of the
13th February; No. 11, of the 27th February; No.
17, of the 20th March; No. 22, of the 10th April;
No. 25, of the 24th April; No. 26, of the 1st May;
No. 30, of the 15th May; No. 31, of the 22nd May,
and No. 38, of the 12th June, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same,
as to application of the Bank of New Zealand, on or
before the 30th September, 1873, and in each other
case within one calendar month from date of gazetting
this notice.

The BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, Applicant.—
1 rood, Town Section 133, Napier. (E. Lyndon,
Broker.)