1720
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 132

IRON.
A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be given for the production in New Zealand of 300 tons of pig-iron, of marketable quality, from ore produced in New Zealand.

WROUGHT-IRON.
A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be given for the production in New Zealand, by a direct process, of 200 tons of “iron blooms,” of marketable quality, from ore produced in New Zealand.

Conditions.

1. The bonus not to be given for any quantity less than 100 tons.
2. Notice of the intention to erect ironworks and claim the bonus must be given to the Colonial Secretary before the 30th June, 1885.
3. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st December, 1886.
4. In the event of more than one claimant giving such notice, not more than seven-tenths of the bonus may be claimed by the first producer, and not more than three-tenths by the second producer; but, if only one claimant becomes a producer on the above conditions, he may claim the whole of the bonus.
5. The iron in respect of which any bonus is claimed, and the ore from which it is manufactured, will be examined by an officer to be appointed by the Government, who may require the production of bonâ fide account-sales of quantities not less than 100 tons weight, showing that such iron has been sold at a fair market price as wrought-iron.

Further information and particulars may be obtained by application at the Colonial Secretary’s Office.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

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Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Hoani Meke and Kingita Ngahoro, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Anaru Kune, as Trustee under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said lands may be leased by the said Trustee for a term of twenty-one years from the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

Dated at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

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SCHEDULE.
ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, containing by admeasurement 26,300 acres, more or less, being called or known by the name of the Purahotangihia Block, on the plan deposited in the Survey Office at Napier. Bounded on the North and North-east by the Maungaharuru Block, the Waikoau Stream, and the Arapawanui and Tongoio Blocks; on the South by Morris Block, and the Petane and the Pakuratahi Blocks; and on the West by the Waiohinganga or Esk River: excepting and reserving thereout as a reserve for the lessors all that parcel of land, portion of the said block, containing by estimation 400 acres, and contained in a straight line drawn from the north-east portion of the Pakuratahi Block, at a gate in the track between the lands hereby demised and the Pakuratahi Block, and thence running northerly till it meets the creek, running at right angles from the waterfall in the creek forming the boundary between the lands hereby demised and the Tongoio Block.

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Government Life Insurance Agencies.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 16th December, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that agencies of this department have been opened at the following Post Offices:—

PETONE, Wellington;
MARTINBOROUGH, Wellington; and
FORTROSE, Otago.

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

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Officiating Ministers for 1884.—Notice No. 26.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1884.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Reverend Richard Heffernan.

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend Andrew Cameron, B.A.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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Public Notice under “The Property Assessment Act, 1879,” Section 76.

Property-Tax Department,
Wellington, 27th November, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that property-tax under “The Property Tax Act, 1884,” for the year commencing on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, will be payable as follows:—
(1.) In respect of the duty of three-eighths of a penny, where the amount of such duty shall be under two hundred and fifty pounds, the same shall be paid on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four:

And where such duty amounts to two hundred and fifty pounds, or exceeds that sum, the same shall be paid in two equal instalments, the first of such instalments being payable on the said twenty-second day of December, and the second of such instalments on the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

(2.) In respect of the duty on fire, marine, or guarantee policies issued by any insurance company, the same shall be paid on the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

And notice is hereby further given that the places in each district where the said tax shall be paid shall be any post office within such district which is also a money-order office, except in the district of Wellington, in which district the tax shall be paid at any such post office as aforesaid, and at the office of the Property-Tax Commissioner, at the Government Buildings, Wellington.

J. SPERREY,
Property-Tax Commissioner.

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Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1884.

PATENT for an Improved Compound, and its Use, for resisting the Action of Water and Weather, Acids and Alkalies, and as a preserving and insulating medium.

TRUMAN JUNIUS PEARCE, of No. 1455, Broadway Street, Oakland, California, one of the United States of America, Inventor, and MELVIN WARREN BEARDSLEY, of No. 1320, Telegraph Avenue, in the same city, Oil Refiner, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 10th day of March next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 23rd day of February next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1325.

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Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for renovating old Billiard Cushions, to be called “Reed’s Patent Process for renovating Billiard Cushions.”

GEORGE REED, of Hobson Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 10th day of March next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to