Tenders.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1885.
THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenderers is published for general information.
W. J. M. LARNACH.

MARINE BOILER CONTRACT.
Accepted.
S. Luke and Sons, Wellington (hand-rivetted) .. 909 0 0
Declined.
W. Cable and Co., Wellington (hand-rivetted) .. 1,000 0 0
R. S. Sparrow and Co., Dunedin (machine-rivetted) .. 1,095 0 0
R. S. Sparrow and Co., Dunedin (hand-rivetted) 1,110 0 0
Morgan and Cable, Port Chalmers .. 1,161 0 0
George Fraser, Auckland .. 1,506 0 0
John Anderson, Christchurch (machine-rivetted) 1,590 0 0

Regulations for Aid to Prospecting, and as to Payment of Rewards for Discovery of New Goldfields.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th October, 1885.
THE following rules and regulations for aid to prospecting, and for the payment of rewards for the discovery of new goldfields, recommended by the Goldfields Committee in the session of 1885, having been adopted by the Government, are published for general information.
W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

REGULATIONS FOR AID TO PROSPECTING.

1. Upon the Council of any county, or, where the Counties Act is not in force, upon any Road Board, adopting the following regulations for prospecting for diamonds, gold, silver, or tin, the Government shall, subject to the following conditions, subsidize by pound for pound the amounts expended by each County Council or Road Board, as the case may be:-
2. Previous to the Government binding itself to subsidize any local body as aforesaid, each local body shall submit its proposals to the Minister of Mines for approval.
3. On the application and proposals having been approved of, each payment shall be made on the certificate of the County Chairman in the case of a County Council, and in the case of a Road Board on the certificate of the Chairman of the said Board, or such other person as may be appointed by the Minister.
4. The amounts payable by way of subsidy to any County Council in any one year shall not exceed £500.
5. The amounts payable to any Road Board in any one year shall not exceed £200.
6. The Government shall subsidize by pound for pound any amounts expended by County Councils or Road Boards in the purchase of boring appliances to be used for prospecting purposes.

CLASS I.-One party of two or three men in each riding of any county will be subsidized at the rate of 15s. per week per man for prospecting new and unprospected country three miles from any main or district road and from any known workings.
CLASS II.-One party of two or three men in each riding of any county will be subsidized as under while prospecting partially-worked and prospected country within tolerably easy access of road communication:-
Sinking.-Dry Ground : 1s. per foot from surface to 15 feet, 2s. per foot from 15 to 60 feet, 3s. per foot from 60 feet to any greater depth. Wet Ground, requiring slabbing: Double the above rates.
Tunnelling and Driving.-Through Drift or Blue Reef : 1s. 6d. per foot for the first 500 feet, 3s. 6d. per foot for next 500 feet, 4s. 6d. per foot for next 500 (or any portion of 500) feet. Through Hard Rock or Cement requiring blasting, or through Pug: 5s. per foot. All tunnels and drives to be at least 4 feet by 3 feet 6 inches.
Prospectors under both Class I. and Class II. are required before commencing operations to send in their names to the County Council or Road Board, who must approve of same.
The locality of prospecting operations must also be stated, for the approval of the Council or Road Board.
Each prospecting party must send in a report, once in every month, to the Council or Road Board, setting forth the nature, extent, and result of operations during the previous month.
All measurement of work done under Class II. shall be made by the County Engineer, Road Overseer of the district, or other person appointed by the local body, who will be required to certify to the voucher for payment.
The subsidy under Class I. and Class II. may be discontinued, if the Council or Road Board think necessary, on one

month's notice of discontinuance being given to the party or parties.
Payments will be made monthly.
Applications (giving the full names and residences of each man of the proposed party or parties, and specifying the locality in which it is proposed to prospect) must be sent to the Council Chambers or Road Board offices, and the application must be indorsed on the envelope, "Application for Prospecting, Class I." (or "Class II.," as the case may be).

REGULATIONS AS TO REWARDS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLDFIELDS.

1. Upon the Council of any county, or, where the Counties Act is not in force, upon any Road Board, adopting the following regulations, the Government shall subsidize by pound for pound the amounts paid by way of reward under the same:-
2. For the discovery of a new goldfield, three miles from any workings, there shall be paid, at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, a reward of £100 per hundred miners, up to £500 for five hundred or more miners so employed.
3. For the recovery of a lead in proximity to the place where a lead has been lost, and has not been worked for a period of six months, a reward equal to one-half of the above rates;
   And for the discovery of a new lead one mile from any lost lead, a reward equal to two-thirds of the above rates.
4. "Workings" shall be construed to mean an area of ground upon which alluvial- or quartz-mining operations are being carried on.
5. Distance shall be computed from any given point, measured in a direct line, from where gold-mining is being carried on to the site of the discovery.
6. Every application made by a County Council or Road Board within a mining district or gold-mining district shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Warden of the district in which the discovery has been made; or, if the discovery be outside any mining district or gold-mining district, then the certificate shall be signed by the Chairman of the Land Board of the land district in which the discovery has been made. Such certificate shall state the amounts paid by the local body, and that such payment has been made in accordance with these regulations.
7. In the event of any person discovering a payable goldfield beyond the jurisdiction of any County Council or Road Board, the Government shall recognize the application, and deal therewith in the same manner as if it had been made by a County Council or Road Board.
8. For the discovery of a payable diamond-field, lode of silver, or lode of tin, for every one hundred miners profitably employed thereon at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, there shall be paid a reward of £100 up to £500 for five hundred or more miners so employed.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1885.

PATENT for Curing Foot-rot in Sheep, and called "Graham and Co.'s Permanent Cure for Foot-rot."
WILLIAM GRAHAM, Shepherd, and GEORGE BERKELEY HILL, Gentleman, both of Canterbury, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 26th day of January next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 11th day of January next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
No. 1599.
Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for giving Alarm of Fire by Electricity.
REGINALD DONKIN, of Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 28th day of January next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 13th day of January next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
No. 1600.
Patent Officer.