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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

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.

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Goldfields.—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 goldfield 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 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 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 goldfields, and will forfeit all claim to reward.

Additional Regulation as to Payment of Rewards for Discovery of New Goldfields.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th June, 1886.

THE following additional regulation for the payment of rewards for the discovery of new goldfields, recommended 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 considered by the Goldfields Committee unless such claim be made within one year from the date of the discovery.

Members of House of Representatives elected.—General Election.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1887.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received returns to the writs issued on the 26th day of August, 1887, for the election of members to serve in the House of Representatives for the districts hereinafter specified; and by the indorsements on such writs it appears that the under-mentioned gentlemen have been duly elected members for the said districts, viz.:

Bay of Islands :
Richard Hobbs.

Marsden :
Robert Thompson.

Rodney :
William Pollock Moat.

Waitemata :
Richard Monk.

Eden :
Edwin Mitchelson.

Newton :
Edward Withy.

Ponsonby :
Thomas Peacock.

Auckland North :
Thomas Thompson.

Auckland West :
David Goldie.

Auckland Central :
Sir George Grey, K.C.B.

Parnell :
Frederick Joseph Moss.

Manukau :
Sir George Maurice O’Rorke, Knight.

Franklin North :
Frank Lawry.

Franklin South :
Ebenezer Hamlin.

Coromandel :
Alfred Jerome Cadman.

Thames :
William Fraser.

Waikato :
John Blair Whyte.

Tauranga :
William Kelly.

Waipa :
William Jackson.

East Coast :
Andrew Graham.

Taranaki :
George Albert Marchant.

New Plymouth :
Oliver Samuel.

Egmont :
Harry Albert Atkinson.

Wanganui :
John Ballance.

Waitotara :
George Hutchison.

Napier :
John Davies Ormond.

Hawke’s Bay :
William Russell Russell.

Waipawa :
Thomas Tanner.

Rangitikei :
Robert Cunningham Bruce.

Manawatu :
Douglas Hastings Macarthur.

Foxton :
James Glenny Wilson.

Woodville :
William Cowper Smith.

Masterton :
George Beetham.

Wairarapa :
Walter Clarke Buchanan.

Hutt :
Henry Samuel Fitzherbert.

Wellington South and Suburbs :
Charles Beard Izard.

Thorndon :
Alfred Kingcome Newman.

Te Aro :
Andrew Agnew Stuart-Menteath.

Wellington East :
George Fisher.

Nelson :
Henry Augustus Levestam.

Waimea-Picton :
Arthur Penrose Seymour.

Motueka :
John Kerr.

Buller :
Eugene Joseph O’Conor.

Wairau :
Henry Dodson.

Inangahua :
Richard Harman Jeffares Reeves.

Greymouth :
Arthur Robert Guinness.

Kumara :
Richard John Seddon.