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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Additional Office at which Franklin North Electoral Roll can be inspected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1885.

IN accordance with the provisions of “The Registration of Electors Act, 1879,” I hereby appoint

The Post Office, Otahuhu,

to be an office at which the Franklin North Electoral Roll can be inspected.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Date for First Meeting of Council of County of Taranaki extended.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th September, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to extend the date for holding the first meeting of the newly elected Council of the County of Taranaki from Saturday, the 12th September, 1885, at 2 o'clock p.m., to Monday, the 12th October, 1885, at 2 o'clock p.m. The place of meeting to be the office of the Taranaki County Council, New Plymouth.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Arrangements for First Elections, Town District of Dannevirke, County of Wairarapa.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN MIDDLETON NELSON

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of five Commissioners for the Town District of Dannevirke, as constituted under “The Town Districts Act, 1881;” also to appoint Saturday, the 10th day of October, 1885, to be the time, and the Schoolhouse, Dannevirke, to be the place, for holding such first elections; also to appoint Saturday, the 17th day of October, 1885, at noon, to be the time, and the office of Duncan McCallum, Dannevirke, to be the place, for the first meeting of the Commissioners of the said town district.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th August, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that Augustus F. Des Veaux, of Christchurch, in the Colony of New Zealand, Patent Agent, has applied, on behalf of Ninian Hyslop and Company, of Cashel Street, Christchurch, in the said colony, Tea Merchants, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz.:—

Description of Trade Mark.

A device or figure of a tea bush, above which are the words “Pure Indian Teas,” below it the word “Registered,” on the left-hand side of it the words “Hyslop's Tea Bush,” and on the right-hand side of it the words “Trade Mark.”

Nature of the Article to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.

Tea.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Bonus for Kerosene.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th February, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus will be paid for the production of kerosene under the following conditions:—

A bonus of sixpence per gallon will be paid on kerosene produced within the colony to an extent not exceeding 50,000 gallons, in quantities of not less than 10,000 gallons at a time; the kerosene to be of a quality approved of by Government, and to be sold at a fair average market price.

Conditions.

1. Notice of intention to claim the above bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1885.

2. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1886.

3. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions to be the recipient of the bonus.

4. The other conditions as to quantity, priority, quality, and value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Government.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Gold Fields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1885.

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.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED 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 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 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.

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 Tangatakiro, 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,