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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 4021.-ARTHUR SHUCKBURGH COLLINS, of Mount Fyffe,
Kaikoura, Marlborough, New Zealand, Runholder, has de-
posited at this office a specification of an invention for
improvements in the patent Kaikoura wire-strainer.

No. 4022.-ALFRED DEACON, of Dunedin, Otago, New
Zealand, Sawmaker, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of an invention for an improved cramp, to be known as
"Deacon's Quadruple Cramp."

No. 4023.-GEORGE HENRY DAVIES, of Karori, near Wel-
lington, in the Colony of New Zealand, Civil Servant,
has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for
trapping rabbits by means of a patent burrow with en-
closure, to be called "Bunny Emunctus."

And I have appointed Friday, the 17th day of January
next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear
the said applications and all objections thereto; and I
require all persons having an interest in opposing the
grant of any such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 2nd
day of January next, at this office, particulars in writing of
their objections to any of the said applications, otherwise
they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

Rainfall for September, 1889.

Meteorological Office, Colonial Museum,
Wellington, 18th October, 1889.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of September,
1889:-

J. HECTOR,
Director.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke's
Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable
for two years, are offered for competition. One of
these scholarships is open to all Maoris that have regularly

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and continuously attended a Native school during the pre-
vious year, and are under sixteen years of age at the end of
the month preceding the date of the examination; the
other two scholarships are open to all Maoris that are under
fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the
date of the examination, and that have attended a Native
village school regularly and continuously during the previous
twelve months. These scholarships are offered for competi-
tion to Maori youths, on the conditions laid down in the
regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships
Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1886, and in
the supplementary regulations sent out to all teachers in
May of the current year. The examination will be held at
convenient centres on the 16th and 17th December, 1889.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers,
send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education
Department, Wellington, of their intention to present them-
selves for examination. Such notice must be posted not
later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be
obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding insti-
tutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secre-
tary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 26th August, 1889.

Goldfields Notices.

Reward of £10,000 offered for the Discovery of New Gold-
fields.-Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1888.

REWARDS of £10,000 are offered for the discovery of new
goldfields, upon the amended conditions set forth
hereunder.
G. F. RICHARDSON,
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 £5,000 for the North Island, and £5,000 for the
   Middle Island.

2. The newly-discovered goldfield must be situated not
   less than forty miles from any existing goldfield or any
   existing workings.

3. No reward shall be payable until 50,000 ounces of gold
   have been produced from the newly-discovered goldfield
   within three years from the date of its being registered.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being
   desirous of obtaining the 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 will be allowed upon Native land with-
   out a prospecting license authorising the person therein
   named, with the consent of the owner of the land, to prospect,
   in accordance with the provisions of sections one hundred
   and thirty-five to one hundred and thirty-seven of "The
   Mining Act, 1886," inclusive.

No reward shall be paid for any discovery that may be
made upon Native land without the consent of the Native
owners and the approval of the Minister of Mines.

Native Land Court Notices.

Sitting of Court to make Inquiry respecting Sales of Land.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1889.

NOTICE is hereby given that Alexander Mackay, Esquire,
a Judge of the Native Land Court, will, with an
Assessor, sit at the Native Land Court Office, Wellington,
on Saturday, the 2nd day of November next, and make
inquiry respecting the sales of the parcels of land named in
the first column of the Schedule hereto, made by the persons
named in the second column to the persons named in the third
column, on the dates respectively mentioned in the fourth
column, and upon such report as to him may seem fit.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar