THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 433

SCHEDULE.
Report, New Zealand Company's Commissioner.

APPLICANTS: Timothy J. O'Leary and party. Style
under which it is intended to conduct the business:
"The Enterprise Gold-Mining Company. 10 acres,
at Back Lead, Charleston, in the Nelson South-West
Mining District.
I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed
by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI.,
of the Legislative Council of New Zealand to hear
and decide claims to land by persons claiming title
thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand
Company, report that the claim of John Alfred Sutton,
of Oamaru, in the Provincial District of Otago,
having been referred to me for investigation, I do
hereby decide that the said John Alfred Sutton will
be entitled, upon the production of the proper
authority, to take the delivery of a Crown grant to
be issued in the name of John Sutton, of Wellington,
Chemist, for part of Section No. 895, in the City of
Wellington. The legal estate to be antevested therein
as from the 5th day of January, 1844.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-
fourth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.
Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of March, 1879.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)
DAVID LEWIS, Commissioner,
New Zealand Company's Land Claims.

Tenders Invited.
Legislative Council Standing Orders relative to Local
Bills.

TO IRONMASTERS. - WANTED, 100,000 TONS OF
STEEL RAILS.
Legislative Council,
1st February, 1879.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, New Zealand,
6th November, 1878.
IN accordance with a resolution of the Legislative
Council, the following Standing Orders relative
to Local Bills are published for general information.

WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at Wel-
lington by the Hon. the Minister for Public
Works up to 30th September, 1879, for the supply
of the whole or any portion of 100,000 tons of steel
rails, to be manufactured within the colony from New
Zealand ores. Payment will be made in cash on
delivery at the works-the Government of New
Zealand agreeing to pay, in addition, one-half of the
cost of the conveyance to the colony by sea of the
workmen to be engaged in the manufacture.
L. STOWE,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.

Information as to the mineral resources of New
Zealand, and maps indicating the various localities in
which mineral deposits are situated in relation to
means of transport, may be had on application to the
Agent-General of New Zealand, 7, Westminster
Chambers, Victoria Street, London; or to W. Walton
Evans, Esq., 66, Pine Street, New York.
STANDING ORDERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
RELATIVE TO LOCAL BILLS.

As it is unlikely that intending contractors will
enter into an engagement of the above nature with-
out first satisfying themselves by personal inspection
as to the position and extent of the raw material in
New Zealand required for the manufacture of iron,
every facility and information on this subject will be
afforded on application to Dr. Hector, C.M.G., F.R.S.,
Director of the Geological Department, Wellington.

1. Local Bills are those which not being such as
   require to be introduced as Private Bills, are yet
   Bills specially affecting local interests and dealing
   with private rights, or with public reserves for local
   and municipal purposes; also Bills altering the con-
   stitution, election, or powers of local public bodies.

For the information of parties desiring to tender,
it may be stated that the official returns show that
there were imported into New Zealand, within the
last eight years, 15,500 tons of cast-iron, and 93,000
tons of wrought-iron, exclusive of iron for Govern-
ment and other railways, during which period 1,068
miles have been constructed and opened for traffic.
2. There shall be a Standing Committee, to consist
of five members, to be called the "Local Bills Com-
mittee," to which shall stand referred, after their
first reading, all Bills which may appear to the
Speaker to come within the description given in the
preceding Order. Such Committee shall, in the case
of every Bill referred to it, decide whether the same
comes within the definition of a Local Bill; and, if
so, whether the conditions laid down in Orders 3, 4,
and 5 have been complied with.

JOHN KNOWLES,
Under Secretary for Public Works.
3. No Local Bill shall be introduced into the
Legislative Council by any member later than two
months after the commencement of the session.

NOTICE.
4. The member in charge of a Local Bill shall pro-
duce to the Local Bills Committee satisfactory evi-
dence that the intention to introduce the Bill and
the purport of the same has been made public in the
locality whose interests are affected, by advertisement
in a local newspaper, at least four times in four suc-
cessive weeks. When the Bill specially affects the
interests of any private individual, evidence shall
also be produced that personal notice to the effect
above stated has been given to such individual.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, New Zealand,
6th November, 1878.
5. When a Local Bill refers to an exchange of or
other dealing with any Crown lands, or with a public
reserve, the member in charge thereof shall also pro-
duce a certified map, on a scale of not less than 20
chains to an inch, showing the land or reserve in
question, and the mode in which it is proposed to
deal with the same. When any Schedule containing
a description of any land is attached to such Bill, it
shall be accompanied by a certificate of its correct-
ness from an officer of the Survey Department or
other duly-authorized Surveyor.

THE foregoing advertisement will be published in
the United Kingdom, the North American
States, and the Continent of Europe.

New Zealand colonists who may have friends and
correspondents connected with the iron manufacture
are requested to be good enough to draw attention to
the highly advantageous and profitable field for enter-
prise which this colony presents to those who can
bring the necessary capital and practical experience
to bear upon such manufacture.

JOHN KNOWLES,
Under Secretary for Public Works.