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(1.) That the Resident Medical Officer has certified that each such person is likely to be benefited by treatment at the Sanatorium.

(2.) That the expenses to and from Rotorua are provided by each such person, together with a sufficient supply of clothing.

(3.) That not more than four such persons shall be resident at the Sanatorium at one time.

8. The stay of each patient is limited to three months, but the Resident Medical Officer can, at his discretion, extend the period to six months.

Notice to Mariners, No. 16 of 1892.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 27th May, 1892

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, is published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister having charge of the Marine Department.

MORETON BAY.—ALTERATION AT EAST BANK, NORTH CHANNEL.

NOTICE is hereby given that a narrow sandspit has grown from the East Bank into the channel, extending 150ft. to the westward of the line of Cowan and Tangaluma lights.

Masters of vessels are cautioned to keep the lights open to the westward a distance not less than the difference of thier heights, at night; and to keep Comboyuro Lighthouse on with a small peak showing over the lowest part of the dip in the hills just to the eastward of the Round Hill at Cowan Cowan Point, by day; when passing the East Bank.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 5th May, 1892.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the disbandment of the Featherston Rifle Volunteers, as from the 28th August, 1891.

The following gentlemen therefore cease to be officers in the New Zealand Volunteer Force, their commissions having lapsed under clause 51, Volunteer Regulations, 1889:—

ADAM DONALD, late Captain.
DAVID ARUNDEL SMITH, late Lieutenant.
WILLIAM BENTON, late Lieutenant.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer:—

Dunedin City Guards Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Harry Townsend Fulton. Date of resignation, 29th March, 1892.

R. J. SEDDON.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Salt.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of salt, exclusively either by evaporation of salt-water or from rock mined in the colony, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.

2. Not more than £250 will be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island, and not more than £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.

3. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of salt is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the salt is of good marketable quality.

4. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the stated quantity of salt in the North or South Islands respectively before the 31st March, 1893, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus in either the North Island or the South Island, the amount will be divided, but in no case shall more than £250 be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island and £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.

5. The salt in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the material used in its manufacture will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that the salt is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Pig-iron from Ironsand or Iron-ore.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of pig-iron of marketable quality manufactured in the colony after this date from magnetic or titaniferous ironsand or iron-ore, all material, fuel, and fluxes being the produce of New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.

2. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of iron is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the iron is of good marketable quality.

3. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the required quality of pig-iron before the date named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided; but in no case shall the total amount of money paid by way of bonus exceed £500.

4. The iron in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the ironsand or ore from which it is manufactured will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that not only the ore, but that the lime, coal, and any other material used in the manufacture, is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales of pig-iron have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1891.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1893, the period of literature will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macaulay’s Essays on Bacon and Walpole.

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and Charges in Force upon the New Zealand Railways.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” do hereby make the following alteration in and addition to the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the New Zealand railways, to come into force on and after the 6th day of June, 1892:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.

WHANGAREI SECTION.

Ships’ goods of Classes A, B, C, D, E, will be charged by weight or measurement, at the option of the department.

The common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners was hereunto affixed, this twenty-fifth day of May, (l.s.) one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, in the presence of

JAMES MCKERROW,
J. P. MAXWELL,
W. M. HANNAY,
Railway Commissioners.

Tenders for Telegraph Arms.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1892.

TENDERS are invited for the supply and delivery at the Telegraph Stores, Wellington, of 5,000, 4,000, and 5,000 telegraph arms—14,000 in all.

The several specifications of the above can be seen at the Telegraph Office, Wellington, and at the Post-offices, Masterton, Eketahuna, Carterton, Palmerston North, Feilding, and Halcombe.

Tenders will be received for each kind, or the lot, not later than the 15th day of June, 1892; but in any case each kind must be tendered for separately.

By order of the Telegraph Commissioner.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent.