Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Gold Fields.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1884.

REWARDS are offered for the discovery of new gold
fields, upon the conditions set forth hereunder, payable
out of the parliamentary vote of £2,500.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Mines.

CONDITIONS.

1. The maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved
   discovery of a new gold field in accordance with these conditions is £500; but, if the total sum claimed as rewards in
   any one year exceeds the parliamentary vote, the amount
   available only will be divided equally.

2. The newly-discovered gold field, if in alluvial ground,
   must be situated not less than fifteen miles from the nearest
   alluvial gold workings, or, if in quartz, not less than ten miles
   from the nearest existing quartz mines.

3. No grant will be paid upon any application until it
   shall have been proved that not less than 20,000 ounces of
   gold have been extracted from the new gold field within two
   years from the registration of the discovery, if in alluvial
   workings, and, if in quartz workings, proof of a similar yield
   from this source within three years from such registration
   will be required.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being
   desirous of obtaining a reward, shall immediately forward a
   written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to the
   Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within which
   such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or Resident
   Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an application for reward.

5. No prospecting is allowed upon Native land without the
   approval in writing of the Native Minister, or of some one
   appointed by him in that behalf.

Prospectors going upon Native land without the consent
of the owners are liable to the penalties imposed by the Acts
relating to gold fields, and will forfeit all claim to reward.

Notice to Mariners, No. 58 of 1884.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th December, 1884.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, is
published for general information.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

PORT PHILLIP BAY.—SOUTH CHANNEL LIGHTS.

REFERRING to Notices to Mariners, dated the 13th May,
1874, and the 1st November, 1877, pilots, masters of vessels,
and others are hereby informed that, on and after the 1st
January, 1885, the existing lights (two) shown from the
“Eastern” or Shore Lighthouse, immediately under Arthur’s
Seat, will be discontinued, and, in lieu thereof, one new and
more powerful light will be exhibited.

The auxiliary white light—one of the two mentioned, and
which is particularly referred to in the notice of the 1st
November, 1877, as being 40 feet below the red light—will
be abolished.

The new “Eastern” or Shore Light is a third order fixed
light with dioptric illuminating apparatus, elevated 100 feet
above high-water level, and will be visible, in clear weather,
at a distance of about thirteen nautical miles. The lighthouse is constructed of iron and painted white.

The colours and bearings of the new light will be the same
as set forth in notice of the 13th May, 1874, and the sailing
directions for the South Channel remain unaltered.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Engineer in Charge, Ports and Harbours.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 29th November, 1884.

Regulations under “The Timber-floating Act, 1884.”

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th December, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased,
in pursuance of the provisions of subsection 2 of
section 13 of “The Timber-floating Act, 1884,” to make the
following regulations as to notices, &c., to be given relative
to applications for the laying-down of booms in navigable
waters.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

REGULATIONS as to the Notices, &c., to be given under
Subsection 2 of Section 13 of “The Timber-floating Act,
1884,” relative to Applications for the Laying-down of
Booms in Navigable Waters.

1. Any person applying for authority to lay down booms in
   navigable waters shall serve notice in writing of such intention on the owner, lessee, or occupier of any land on the
   banks adjacent to the place where it is proposed to lay down
   such booms.

2. Such notice may be served by delivering the same to
   the person or persons to whom such notice is directed, or by
   leaving the same at the usual or last known place of abode
   or business of such person or persons in this colony, with
   some person appearing to be above the age of fourteen years.
   If any owner, lessee, or occupier of the adjacent land is
   unknown, or cannot after due inquiry be found, or has no
   known agent in the colony, the notice may be affixed in some
   conspicuous place upon such land.

3. Every such notice shall specify a period, not being less
   than fourteen days from the date of service of such notice,
   within which objections to the laying-down of such booms
   will be received by the Secretary, Marine Department, Wellington.

4. Such notice shall be published at least twice during
   such last-named period in a newspaper generally circulating
   in the provincial district within which it is intended to place
   such booms.

5. Upon the expiration of the said period the applicant
   shall forward to the Secretary, Marine Department, at Wellington, a statutory declaration setting forth such facts as
   will show that the provisions of the foregoing regulations
   have been strictly complied with.

Approved in Council, 22nd December, 1884.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authority to frank and to receive.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

The SUPERINTENDENT COLLECTORS OF AGRICULTURAL
STATISTICS
to frank and to receive letters and parcels, and frank telegrams, for a period of four months, from the 1st proximo, on
the business of agricultural statistics only.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Tenders for Sole Right of Advertising.

Railway Department,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1884.

THE following is a list of tenders received for the sole
right of advertising on the New Zealand Railways, from
the 1st January, 1885, to the 31st December, 1887.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Section of
Railway.

Tenderer.

Rent per
Annum.

Accepted
or
Declined.

Auckland

J. H. Withford

115 0 0

Accepted.

R. Shannon

63 0 0

Informal.

Wellington

S. R. Dransfield

162 10 0

Accepted.

Blundell Brothers

53 0 0

Declined.

Hurunui-Bluff

Charles Colclough

755 0 0

Accepted.

Cuff and Graham

736 0 0

Declined.

Erskine and Whit-
more

619 10 0

J. M. Heywood
and Co.

575 10 0

James Finch

501 0 0

George Donne

450 0 0

All sections

Charles Colclough

1,050 0 0

Informal.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1884.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders
is published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works,