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9. The total tonnage upon which the Treasurer may grant
   bonuses as aforesaid under this Act shall not exceed 6,000
   tons.

10. Every person intending to apply for the grant of a
    bonus shall register a special trade-mark under the laws for
    the time being in force in New Zealand providing for the
    registration of trade-marks, such trade-mark to be used for
    all cured and canned fish to be prepared for export by such
    person, and shall, within six years after the passing of this
    Act, give notice to the Treasurer of his intention to export
    canned and cured fish with a view to applying for a bonus,
    and shall append to such notice a copy of such trade-mark;
    and all cases, barrels, or cans containing fish cured and
    canned for export by any such person shall, before exporta-
    tion, be marked with the trade-mark so registered by him,
    and no part of any such bonus shall be payable except in
    respect of cases, barrels, or cans so marked.

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 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 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.

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.

"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 whereof 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
Judge of the Court, and it shall thereupon be a duty of a
Judge to inquire into the circumstances thereof, and who, if
satisfied that there had been a purchase or lease as alleged,
and that the transaction was bonâ fide, and that a fair value
or rent was given or reserved, may give his certificate to that
effect to the person alleging himself to be such purchaser or
lessee, who shall transmit the same to the Commissioner.

Section 25. Upon the grant of such certificate the person
therein named,—

(a.) If a purchaser, shall be the owner of the share of his
vendor in the land the subject of such purchase, and
shall be entitled to have partitioned to him in severalty
such part of the land as the Court may deem just;

(b.) Or he may within one month after the date of the
certificate give notice to the Commissioner that he is
desirous of purchasing the shares or interests which
he has not already acquired, and in such case he
may, on obtaining a certificate from a Judge that
such Judge is satisfied that he had, before the first
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
six, obtained the signature of one or more owner or
owners to a writing purporting or agreeing to convey
the share or interest of the persons signing, at any
time within twelve months from the said first day of
July, but not afterwards, purchase all or any of such
shares or interests.

If all such outstanding shares or interests are not pur-
chased, he shall be entitled to have partitioned to him
such part of the land as the Court may deem just;

(c.) If a lessee, shall be entitled to have the share of his
lessors in the land comprised in his lease ascertained,
and partition made thereof to such lessors, and shall
be entitled to hold his lease subject to the terms
thereof until its expiry;

(d.) Or he may, within one month after the date of the
certificate, give notice to the Commissioner that he is
desirous of obtaining a lease of all or some of the
owners who have not already granted him a lease, and
in such case he may, on obtaining a certificate from a
Judge that such Judge is satisfied that he had, before
the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-six, obtained the signature of one or more
owner or owners to a writing purporting to be or agree-
ment to grant a lease of the land or of the share or
interest of the person signing, at any time within
twelve months from the first day of July, one thousand