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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.
O
NE 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."

W
HEREAS 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 Tangatakiho,
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.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1885.
T
HE following notices of elections of members of Road
Boards, under "The Road Boards Act, 1882," have
been received at this office.

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Mauku Road District, County of Manukau :
Heywood Crispe (Chairman).
William T. Wright.
James Goldsworthy.
Charles Shepherd.
Pelorus Road District, County of Marlborough :
William Henry Dalton.

Member of House of Representatives for Bruce elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1885.
T
HE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ
issued by him on the 8th day of July, 1885, for the
election of one Member to serve in the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Electoral District of Bruce, and by the
indorsement on such writ it appears that the under-men-
tioned gentleman has been duly elected Member for such
district, viz. :

For the Electoral District of Bruce.
DONALD REID.
G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Designation of Post Office changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1885.
T
IT is hereby notified for general information that the
designation of the Post Office in the Blenheim Postal
District known as Kaituna Valley will, from the 17th instant,
be changed to

OKARAMIO.
By order of the Postmaster-General.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Reward for Discovery of Illicit Distillation.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1885.
W
HEREAS it has from time to time been brought
under the notice of the Government that the prac-
tice of illicit distillation is carried on in various parts of this
colony; and it is believed that such practice now exists to a
large extent :
It is hereby notified that a reward not exceeding £50 and
not less than £5 will be paid to any one who gives such
information as will lead to the discovery of illicit distil-
lation, and to the detection and conviction of persons
engaged therein, or in buying or selling spirits illicitly dis-
tilled, or supplying to illicit distillers materials for making
spirits.
This reward will be paid on conviction being obtained, and
it will be independent of and in addition to one-third of the
net proceeds of any seizure, and of the penalty to which by
law the person giving information is entitled.
The amount of the reward will be in proportion to the
importance of each case.
Persons willing to give information are requested to com-
municate with any officer of Customs or of Police.
It may be relied on that any communication of the above
nature will be regarded as strictly confidential, and that the
name of the person giving information will not be divulged
without his consent.
By order.

WILLIAM SEED,
Secretary to Customs.

Officiating Ministers for 1885.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1885.
P
URSUANT 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 name of an Offici-
ating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is pub-
lished for general information :—

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Albert Charles Lawry,
Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Notice to Licensed Interpreters.

Native Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1885.
T
HE attention of Licensed Interpreters is called to the
under-mentioned section of "The Thermal-Springs
Districts Act, 1881," viz. :—
"3. After the publication in the Gazette of any Proclama-
tion defining a district as aforesaid, this Act shall be in force
therein; and it shall not be lawful for any person other than
Her Majesty to acquire any estate or interest in Native land
therein except by virtue of or through the means prescribed
or permitted by this Act."
Licensed Interpreters are cautioned against interpreting or
witnessing any documents in contravention of the above
section.
By order.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under-Secretary.