AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. The maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved
   discovery of a new gold field in accordance with these condi-
   tions 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 ten miles from the nearest
   alluvial gold workings, or, if in quartz, not less than five 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 applica-
   tion 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 con-
taining 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 informa-
tion 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; pro-
vided the essays reach a sufficiently-deserving standard of
excellence.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Notice under "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act,
1883."

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Te Waari, Te
Rimene Rire, Te Ahikouhai, and Karamana Kiki,
aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in
the Schedule hereto, is vested in William Iorns and Mani-
hera Maaka, and William Iorns and Hamuera Tangatakino,
as Trustees 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 re-
strictions:

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 Trustees for a term of fourteen years, from
the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three.

Dated at Wellington, this sixth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,

Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situate at Te Oreore, in the District
of Wairarapa, known by the name of "Okurupatu," contain-
ing 5,600 acres, more or less, except thereout the portion of
the said block lying to the south side of the main road from
Masterton to the Upper Taueru, and excepting also all that
piece of the said block, containing 20 acres, marked off for
the use of the lessors.

Inquiry into Collision between Steamers "Herald" and
"Gairloch" confirmed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th July, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pur-
suance of the provisions of section 244 of "The
Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," to confirm the report of
the Court of Inquiry into the collision between the steamers
"Herald" and "Gairloch," by which the New Zealand Cer-
tificate of Service, as master, No. 2428, held by Samuel
Richard Savory, the master of the "Herald," is suspended
for three months from the 29th May, 1885.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

THAT the collision was caused solely by the default of the
master of the "Herald," for the following reasons, namely:-

After considering the evidence in this case, the result at
which I have arrived is to exonerate the master and crew
of the "Gairloch," and to attribute the collision to the
default of the master of the "Herald." I have come to
the conclusion that the "Gairloch's" lights were burning,
and ought to have been visible to the "Herald," if they
were not, in fact, seen by them. I think also that the
foresail was not set so as to affect the navigation of the
"Gairloch," or to bring the master within the terms of the
harbour regulations.

We have, therefore, to consider the case of two steamers
meeting in a narrow channel, and to determine which of
them is responsible for the collision.

In the first place, it seems clear, both from the general
tenor of the evidence, and from the nature of the damage
sustained by the "Gairloch," that the "Herald" ran into
the "Gairloch," and not the "Gairloch" into the "Herald."
It seems equally clear that the collision took place on the
southern or Waiuku side of the channel. Had it been in or
near mid-channel, as the master of the "Herald" alleges,
the starboard light must have been visible to the "Herald"
some considerable time before the collision. That it was
not seen cannot be attributed to its being obscured by the
foresail, for the "Herald's" witnesses themselves admit
that the starboard clew was hauled up. The master of the
"Gairloch" gives a consistent account of the transaction
from first to last. He passed the corner buoy at a distance
of some 60 feet; he sighted the middle buoy when half-way
between it and the corner buoy; he then saw the "Herald,"
as he described it at the time, coming down upon him
"ported, then hard-a-port;" and ran his ship ashore. Her
head then canted out and showed her green light to the
"Herald," and soon after the collision took place.

The evidence all concurs in determining that the "Gair-
loch" did take ground. The mate noticed that she lost way,
and her head began to pay-off. The man at the wheel found
that she lost steerage-way, and the engineer found that
the engines were brought up. It is impossible for her to
have gone ashore on the northern bank. It therefore
follows, as a necessary consequence, that she must have
touched on the southern. When we turn to the evidence
of the "Herald" we find that those elements which
make the evidence of the "Gairloch" trustworthy are
almost entirely wanting. The master admits that, had the
"Gairloch" been where he believed her to be, she could not
have shown her red light alone. He was going at a higher
rate of speed than he thought, believing that his engines
were at half speed, when, in fact, they were at full speed;
thus giving the ship at least a rate of eight knots instead of
five or six. He cannot have been aware of his position when
rounding the black buoy, or he would not have been so im-
prudent as to pass within 8 or 10 feet of it. If he had then
ported and hard-a-port, as he said he did, he must inevitably
have gone ashore on the northern bank. It seems, there-
fore, clear that the mate is correct in his statement that the
helm was steadied before the order Hard-a-port was given.

This, then, seems to be the way in which the collision
came about: The master of the "Herald" did not know his
proper course. After rounding the black buoy, seeing the
"Gairloch's" lights, and believing, in common with his
mate, that she was on the lee bank, he thought he was
steering down channel, when, in fact, he was steering across
it towards the southern side. (This is corroborated by the
mate's having called out to him to starboard.) Then, having
probably discovered his mistake, he reversed his engines
and put his helm hard-a-port, but too late to avoid a col-
lision. The "Gairloch," although aground, cannot have
been fast on the ground, and the result of the blow was to
float her. The two ships then ranged side by side, and the
"Herald," still having headway on her, forged ahead, and
at last drew clear. I am not at all satisfied that the master
gave any order to heave the lead at the time of the collision.
Had he done so, it is scarcely credible that he would not
have attended to any report; nor am I inclined to accept the
statement of the man Mathews, who alleges that he hove the
lead without any order to do so, and that between the two