JULY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 923

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.

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 Manihera Maaka, and William Iorns and Hamuera Tangataki no, 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 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 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,” containing 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.

Notice to Mariners, No. 23 of 1885.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th July, 1885.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, and the Marine Board, Sydney, are published for general information.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

REMOVAL OF LIGHTSHIP AND PLACING OF ADDITIONAL BUOY AND BEACONS, KEPPEL BAY.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 14th proximo the lightship will be removed from the Elbow, Keppel Bay, the channel now being marked by the leading lights on Balaklava Island, which were established on the 17th February last.

The elbow of the bank will be marked by a red buoy carrying a cage 3 feet in diameter, 12 feet above the water. The buoy will lie in 18 feet at low water, one cable north of the present position of the lightship.

Two additional red and triangular beacons have also been placed in 7 feet of water on the west bank (Wagtail Sand): one on its southern extremity, and the other about midway between that and the old beacon. These beacons should not be approached within half a cable.

On the Curlew Spit an additional beacon, black and square, has been placed in 8 feet at low-water springs.

A berth must be given it of not less than one-third of a cable.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 30th June, 1885.

WRECK OF THE SCHOONER “LITTLE PET.”

It is hereby notified for general information that the wreck of the schooner “Little Pet” lies in 11 fathoms of water, with her maintopmast head near the surface, about three-quarters of a mile off the shore, the Wollongong Light bearing S.S.W. two and three-quarter miles.

Masters of vessels are cautioned that the wreck is only a short distance inside the track of vessels trading to Wollongong.

FRANCIS HIXSON,
President.

Office of the Marine Board of New South Wales,
Sydney, 24th June, 1785.

Notice to Mariners, No. 24 of 1885.

BALLAST GROUND, TATA ISLANDS, GOLDEN BAY.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th July, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that vessels discharging ballast at the Tata Islands, Golden Bay, must discharge it within 30 yards of high-water mark of the southernmost island, and south of the boat-landing of the same island.

Proceedings will be taken against any person discharging ballast otherwise than as above directed.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

Notice to Mariners, No. 25 of 1885.

GREYMOUTH HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th July, 1885.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Greymouth Harbour Board, is published for general information.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

WHILST dredging operations are being carried forward on the Grey River a white light will be shown from the dredge moored on the north side of the river opposite the lagoon entrance.

Masters of vessels are cautioned that the dredge’s south moorings reach across the river, as also a wire rope; and on steamers approaching this point they must ring their bell and slow their engines, when the wire rope and chain will be slackened on to the bottom of the river.

M. KENNEDY,
Chairman, Greymouth Harbour Board.

Greymouth, 21st July, 1885.

Report of Court of Inquiry into stranding of Schooner “Helena” confirmed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th July, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to confirm the following report of the Court of Inquiry into the loss of the schooner “Helena,” of the Port of Melbourne, official number 40596, which stranded on Farewell Spit on the 5th instant, while on a voyage from Wanganui to Melbourne, whereby the Tasmanian Certificate of Service, as master, No. 25, held by Henry Bowden, the master of the vessel, is suspended for three months.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

THAT the loss appears, by the evidence, to have been caused by a serious error of judgment on the part of the master, Henry Bowden, in shaping his course too far to the southward. That the said Henry Bowden is further blamable for not taking more active steps to save his vessel after the accident occurred.

I hereby suspend the certificate of the said Henry Bowden for three months from this date, and require him to pay the costs of this inquiry, amounting in the whole to the sum of £8 14s.

Given under my hand this thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, at Nelson, New Zealand.

OSWALD CURTIS,
Resident Magistrate.

We concur in the above report.

W. WEBB BOWEN,
A. PALMER,
Nautical Assessors.