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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 goldfield, 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 goldfield 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 goldfields, and will forfeit all claim to reward.

Progress-payments for Exported Fish.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 24th September, 1886.

WITH reference to the notification in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 12th November, 1885, respecting the
payment of bonuses to persons who prepare canned and
cured fish for export under regulations published on the
same date, it is hereby notified that progress-payments on
account of such bonuses, claimed in accordance with those
regulations, will now be made by this department. Claims
to be for quantities not less than one ton net weight, and to
be sent through the Collector of Customs at the port from
which the fish was exported.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Additional Regulation as to Payment of Rewards for Dis-
covery of New Goldfields.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th June, 1886.

THE following additional regulation for the payment of
rewards for the discovery of new goldfields, recom-
mended by the Goldfields Committee on the 22nd June, 1886,
having been adopted by the Government, is published for
general information.

This regulation applies to the notifications published in
the New Zealand Gazette of the 19th March and 29th
October, 1885, offering rewards for gold discoveries.

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

ADDITIONAL REGULATION.

No claim for a reward for the discovery of gold will be con-
sidered by the Goldfields Committee unless such claim be
made within one year from the date of the discovery.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 23rd August, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £4,000 has
been voted by Parliament for distribution to public
libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1887,
and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not
have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary
for Education, Wellington, on or before the 31st January,
1887.

A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the
sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the
control of an association, society, or club, whose member-
ship is composed of a section of the community only, and if
within a borough it must be open to the public free of charge.
The receipts for the year must not have been less than £2,
exclusive of moneys received from endowments, or from
Government, or from Borough or County Councils, or for
special building purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration
for the use of any room, or building, or land belonging to the
institution, in respect of none of which will subsidy be
allowed. The net proceeds of concerts, lectures, or other
entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the
library will be regarded as voluntary contributions. A sub-
sidy will not be given to more than one library in the same
town.

A nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of
each library’s receipts, and the vote of £4,000 will be divided
in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented, but so as
that no institution shall receive more than £50.

Application to share in the distribution must be by means
of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or
Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made,
and must be accompanied by a statement of the receipts and
expenditure of the institution for the year ending on the 31st
day of December, 1886; and such declaration must be on
the form provided for the purpose, which form shall be as
follows:—

DECLARATION.

I [name], of [place of abode], [occupation], do solemnly and
sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary or
Treasurer] of the [name of institution]; that during the
year ending on the 31st day of December, 1886, the receipts
of the aforesaid institution for the maintenance of the library
only was as follows: From rates levied by a local governing
body under “The Public Libraries Act, 1869,” pounds
shillings and pence; from the subscriptions
of members, pounds shillings and
pence; and from voluntary contributions other than mem-
bers’ subscriptions, pounds shillings and
pence. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the
information hereinafter furnished by me in the appendix
hereto is correct in every particular; that the abstract of ac-
counts is a true statement of the receipts and expenditure of
the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of Decem-
ber, 1886; and that by the rules of the institution admission
to the reading-room is open to the public free of charge.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices
of the Peace Act, 1882.”
(Signature.)

Declared at , this day
of , 188 , before me—

Justice of the Peace,
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public.]

[NOTE.—The words relating to free admission may be
struck out if the library is not in a borough. The words in
brackets are not part of the form, but indicate matter to be
inserted or substituted.]

Copies of the form of application may be obtained from
the Secretary for Education, Wellington, and from the Secre-
tary of any Education Board.

ROBERT STOUT.

“The Native Land Administration Act, 1886.”

Native Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1886.

To Persons having dealings with Natives for Land in-
complete on the 1st day of January, 1887.

ATTENTION is hereby called to the provisions of
sections 1, 24, and 25 of “The Native Land Adminis-
tration Act, 1886,” which said sections are set out in
Schedule A herein.

A printed form of the notification mentioned in the said
section 24 may be obtained on application to a Registrar of
the Native Land Court.

The notification should be signed in duplicate by the
person making it, and should contain such particulars of the
purchase or lease intended to be notified as will show clearly
the nature of the transaction alleged.

One of such duplicates should be delivered to a Commis-
sioner under the above Act, and the other to the Chief Judge
of the Native Land Court. Such delivery may be personal
or by post in a registered letter.

The burden of proving delivery will be upon the party
asserting it.

Notifications under section 24 must be so delivered as to
reach the Commissioner and the Chief Judge of the Native
Land Court respectively before the 1st day of April, 1887.

SCHEDULE A.

SECTION 1. The Short Title of this Act is “The Native Land
Administration Act, 1886.” It shall come into operation on
the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven.

Section 24. A person who may claim to have heretofore
purchased or leased the share or interest of some out of
several owners of land (the title whereto was not at the time
of such purchase or lease subject to any restriction preclud-
ing such purchase or lease) may, within three months after
the coming into operation of this Act, notify the fact of such
purchase or lease to the Commissioner and also to the Chief