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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.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1892.

THE following notices of elections of Members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Otonga East Road District, County of Whangarei:
Crawford Blair Mawhinney.
George Lacassie.
Nicholas Wilson.
Walter George Barker.
Septimus Hawkins.

Makatana East Road District, County of Rodney:
Charles E. Leeds.
James E. Matthew.
William H. Phillips.
Manuel Christian.
Thomas Wann.

Wainui Road District, County of Waitemata:
Enos Bond.
Alexander John Hatfield, jun.
William Kinsey.
William Thomas Moyse.
Edward Scott.

Arch Hill Road District, County of Eden:
Thomas Armstrong.
George Keeling.
James Radcliffe.
Henry Thompson.
Charles Seaton Waddingham.

Avondale Road District, County of Eden:
Elijah Astley.
John Bollard.
Robert Dakin.
William Paganini Hoffman.
Isaac Whymer.

Pukeatua Road District, County of Eden:
Ernest Arthur Frost.
George Green.
James Inglis.
Charles Jeffs.
Michael Lennan.

Mount Roskill Road District, County of Eden:
William Henry Haslett.

Pukekohe East Road District, County of Manukau:
George Ballard.
James B. Brown.
Thomas Collins.
John A. Comrie.
Charles Dromgool.
William Jones.
William Morgan.
William Sharp.
Thomas J. Wallis.

Katikati Road District, County of Tauranga:
John Killen.
Bernard MacDonnell.
John Wilson.

Waipukurau Road District, County of Waipawa:
William Ashton Chambers.
Henry Singleton Hooper.
Alexander Jones, sen.
John Jamieson.
George Fox.

Danevirke Road District, County of Waipawa:
Frederick George Cowper.
Matthew Henderson.
Robert Dickie.
William Frederick Knight.
Thomas McDermott.

Wanstead Road District, County of Patangata:
David Edward Davies.
David Staig Fleming.
Henry Singleton Hooper.
Peter McLean.
Samuel McNutt.

Waimate Road District, County of Hawera:
Philip McCarthy.
Robert McAulley Henson.
William Arthur McCutchan.
Walter Blair.
Arthur McKeown.
John Stevenson.
Henry Downey.
John Thomas Stone.
Frank McMahon.

Waiwakaiho Road District, County of Taranaki:
William Miles.
Thomas James.
Martin Mulloy.
Arthur Chatterton.
Henry Hine.

Spring Creek Road District, County of Marlborough:
George Dodson.
James Gane.
Isaac Gifford.
William Murray.
Joseph Henry Redwood.
Rowden Soper.