JAN. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 169

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Gold Fields.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1884.

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.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Mines.

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 fifteen miles from the nearest
   alluvial gold workings, or, if in quartz, not less than ten 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.

DESIGNS FOR MEDAL AND CERTIFICATE.

Wellington, 2nd January, 1885.

A PRIZE of five pounds each is hereby offered for the
best design for the medal and for the ornamental
certificate which are to be awarded to successful competitors
at the above Exhibition.

The size of the medal is to be 2 inches in diameter.

The size of the certificate is to be 18 inches by 12 inches.

Designs for competition to be sent to the Secretary of the
Exhibition, Wellington, on or before the 14th February,
1885, signed with a motto, and accompanied by a sealed
envelope containing the competitor's name, and bearing the
same motto on the outside.

JULIUS VOGEL.

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.

Despatch.—Excepting Belgian Vessels from Remeasurement.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th January, 1885.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, is published for general informa-
tion.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

Downing Street, 7th November, 1884.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for information
and publication in the colony under your Government, a copy
of an Order of the Queen in Council, dated the 17th October
last, exempting from remeasurement, in any port or place
in Her Majesty's dominions, Belgian vessels, the tonnage of
which is denoted in the certificates of Belgian nationality or
registry issued after the 1st January, 1884.

I have, &c.,
DERBY.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

At the Court at Balmoral, the seventeenth day of October,
1884.

Present:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment
Act, 1862," it is enacted that, whenever it is made to appear
to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement
of tonnage of merchant-ships for the time being in force
under the principal Act have been adopted by the Govern-
ment of any foreign country, and are in force in that country,
it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to
direct that the ships of such foreign country shall be deemed
to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry
or other national papers, and thereupon it shall no longer
be necessary for such ships to be remeasured in any port or
place in Her Majesty's dominions, but such ships shall be
deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of
registry or other papers, in the same manner, to the same
extent, and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the
tonage denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships
is to be deemed the tonnage of such ships:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty
that the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of
merchant-ships now in force under "The Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854," have been adopted by the Government of His
Majesty the King of the Belgians, with the exception of a
slight difference in the mode of estimating the allowance for
engine room, and such rules are now in force in that country,
having come into operation on the first day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four:

Her Majesty is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of
her Privy Council, to direct as follows:—

1. As regards sailing-ships, that merchant sailing-ships
   belonging to Belgium, the measurement whereof on or after
   the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
   eighty-four, shall have been ascertained and denoted in the
   certificates of registry or other national papers of such sailing-
   ships, testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to be of
   the tonnage denoted in such certificates of registry or other
   national papers, in the same manner, and to the same extent,
   and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the tonnage
   denoted in the certificates of registry of British sailing-ships
   is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships.

2. As regards steamships, that merchant-ships belonging
   to Belgium which are propelled by steam or any other power
   requiring engine room, the measurement whereof on or after
   the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred
   and eighty-four, shall have been ascertained and denoted in
   the certificates of registry or other national papers of such
   steamships, testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to
   be of the tonnage denoted in such certificates of registry or
   other national papers, in the same manner, and to the same
   extent, and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the
   tonage denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships
   is deemed to be the tonnage of such ship: Provided, never-
   theless, that, if the owner or master of any such steamship
   desires the deduction for engine room in such ship to be esti-
   mated under the rules for engine-room measurement and
   deduction applicable to British ships, instead of under the
   Belgian rules, the engine room shall be measured and the
   deductions calculated according to the British rules.

C. L. PEEL.

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

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Haimi Wheraro,
aboriginal native of New Zealand, in the land
described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Pera Wheraro,
as trustee 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 interest aforesaid, in order that the said land may be