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compassionate allowances of £8 to £10 if their father is killed in action or died of wounds, and £6 to £8 if drowned or dying from extraordinary exposure. If men are killed or drowned on duty, or die from the effects of injuries or diseases clearly caused by accident, extraordinary exposure, or exertion on service, within twelve months after being first certified to be ill, their widows and orphans receive assistance from Greenwich Hospital funds. The scale of allowance is,—

Rates in excess of the foregoing scale may, at the discretion of the Admiralty, be awarded in cases needing special relief.

When men do not leave widows or children, gratuities not exceeding one year’s full wages may be given at the discretion of the Admiralty to parents or other relatives dependent on such men.

A school for the support and instruction of 1,000 sons of seamen and marines is maintained at Greenwich, and education is also provided for 200 orphan daughters of seamen and marines, and a similar number of total orphan sons are placed out in schools selected by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Thus, a man may feel that, if he loses his life in the service of the State, his widow and children will be provided for.

APPOINTMENTS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Various appointments in the Civil Service are specially kept for deserving men who serve their time for pension (such as, for example, writerships in the dock and victualling yards, and messengerships in the Admiralty), with pay ranging up to 7s. a day.

The information contained in this paper is extracted from the different regulations, which are liable to alteration; no person has any right to pay, pension, or other advantage on account of apparent eligibility under the rules as herein published.

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Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th June, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-mining leases cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—

KARAMEA MINING DISTRICT.

Imperial Quartz-mining Company (Limited), now the Reform Gold-mining Company (Limited); Section 46, Block XI., Reefton, 10 acres 2 roods. No. 1066.

Gerald Perotti, for the Imperial Quartz-mining Company (Limited), now the Reform Gold-mining Company (Limited); Section 45, Block XI., Reefton, 13 acres 1 rood 6 perches. No. 1057.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

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.

Will accepted by the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1892.

In the matter of the will of DAVID GEDDIS, late of Dunedin, deceased.

IT is hereby notified that the above will has been finally accepted, in accordance with the provisions of “The Public Trust Office Act, 1872,” and that the Public Trustee is the Executor appointed under the said will.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Will accepted by the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1892.

In the matter of the will of FREDERICK BOULD, late of Dargaville, deceased.

IT is hereby notified that the above will has been finally accepted, in accordance with the provisions of “The Public Trust Office Act, 1872,” and that the Public Trustee is the Executor appointed under the said will.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.