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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

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.

New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, 1885.

PRIZE ESSAYS.

Wellington, 29th December, 1884.

ONE gold medal and twenty guineas, one silver medal and ten guineas, and one bronze medal and five guineas will be awarded for essays on the present condition and future prospects of the industrial resources of New Zealand, and the best means for fostering their development.

In judging of the merits of the essays preference will be given to those which are of a practical character, rather than to mere abstract or theoretical disquisitions. The essays must be sent in to the Secretary of the Exhibition, signed with a motto and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the author’s name and address, on or before the 1st day of December, 1885. This late date is fixed to enable the essayists, if they desire to do so, to utilize the information which the Exhibition itself will supply.

The essays will be submitted to a Board of three persons, to be hereafter appointed, on whose decision respecting the merits of the essays the above prizes will be awarded; provided the essays reach a sufficiently-deserving standard of excellence.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Election of Assessor under “The Licensing Act Amendment Act, 1882.”

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th March, 1885.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hand of the Returning Officer, that

HEMI KOKIRI

has been duly elected to be the Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Omataroa.

F. WALDEGRAVE.
(for the Under-Secretary.)

Notice to Mariners, No. 7 of 1885.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 13th March, 1885.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, and the Portmaster, Brisbane, are published for general information.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

IRISH CHANNEL.

Cablegram from Lighthouse Department, Dublin.

TUSKAR LIGHT, Irish Channel, will be extinguished from the 1st June to the 31st August, 1885, and in lieu of same a lightship will be moored one mile north 55 degrees west therefrom, showing a light of the same character, until the Tuskar Light is relighted.

ADDITIONAL LIGHTS, KEPPEL BAY.

NOTICE is hereby given that, on and after this date, the following additional lights will be exhibited in Keppel Bay :—

Two white lights on Balaklava Island, which, when in line on a S. by W. ¼ W. bearing, will lead just to the westward of the Timandra Bank buoy. These lights are catoptric, are 1,763 yards apart, and stand at an elevation of 87 and 30 feet respectively.

Two catoptric lights, 54 and 25 feet high respectively, and 860 yards apart—the more northern being red—will be exhibited from the western shore of Port Alma, south of Eupatoria Point, and when in line on a S.W. ¼ W. bearing will lead through Sea Reach (with not less than 19 feet at low water) and Port Alma, the line passing close to the position of the lightship, and cutting the line of lights on Balaklava Island in 7 fathoms of water.

A third pair of lights will be exhibited from Cardigan Point. These lights are similar to those at Port Alma, being 52 and 25 feet high respectively, and 850 yards apart, and will lead on a west southerly bearing to the northward of the lightship and into Rocky Point Reach abreast Flat Island.

Directions by Night.—After rounding the Timandra Buoy, open the two lights on Balaklava Island slightly to the westward, and keep them in that position until the obscured sector of the light on Little Sea Hill is passed, then open the lights slightly to the eastward and keep them in that position until the lights on Eupatoria Point are nearly in line, then steer for them and bring them into line, which direction will lead to a point just below the new Government wharf at Port Alma.

If going up the Fitz Roy River, after getting the Eupatoria Point Lights in line, keep them in that position until the red and white lights on Cardigan Point are getting into line, when haul up and steer with them in that position until the steep bank of the channel in Rocky Point Reach is neared, when that shore is to be kept on board and the channel followed as formerly.

The lightship at the Elbow will be shortly removed, the elbow of the bank being then marked by a red buoy carrying a cage.

G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 17th February, 1885.

Report of Court of Inquiry into Stranding of s.s. “Grafton” confirmed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 14th March, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to confirm the following report of the Court of Inquiry into the stranding of the steamer “Grafton” on a rock off Kiourangi Head, on the 17th February, 1885, by which the New Zealand Certificate of Competency as First Mate, No. 398, held by Alfred Stoddart, the chief officer of the vessel, is suspended for one month.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

THAT the chief officer, Alfred Stoddart, judged the distance from the land incorrectly : he fancied he was further off than was really the case, and thereby ran the steamer upon the rocks or reef at Kiourangi Head. He was therefore culpably negligent, and for his negligence I order the cancellation of his certificate for one month, subject to His Excellency’s approval, and order him to pay the costs of the inquiry, amounting to four guineas.

Given under my hand, this nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, at Wellington, New Zealand.

H. S. WARDELL, R.M.

We concur in the above report.

A. KENNEDY,
CHARLES J. S. GRANT,
Nautical Assessors.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond; namely :—

Port of Lyttelton.

The cellar, ground and first floors, of a brick building situate on Section 710, City of Christchurch, to be known as

THE CITY BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

ROBERT STOUT,
(Acting for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.)
Commissioner’s Order No. 223.]

New Zealand Railways.—By-law regulating the Traffic on Private Roads crossing a Railway on the same Level.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by section 144 of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” I, Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works, do hereby make the following by-law, being an addition to the existing by-laws published