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.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th July, 1892.

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

William Fox and John Foskett Gardner; Section 70,
Block VI., Waitakere, Karamea Mining District, 1 acre
1 rood 9 perches. No. 1107.

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.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorise

The INSPECTORS OF STOCK
to frank telegrams, and

The SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels, on the public service.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 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.

Ormond Road District, County of Cook:
Alexander Irvine.
Alexander Parsons.
Joseph Hamon.
William Edward Cooper.
Alfred Hatten.

Te Arai Road District, County of Cook:
Charles Evans.
James Woodbine Johnson.
Edward O’Dwyer.
James Sisterson.
Thomas U’Ren.

Upper Moutere Road District, County of Waimea:
Henry Bensemann.
Charles Bockmann.

Agent to the Public Trustee appointed, Palmerston North.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 26th July, 1892.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

JAMES SLATTERY,
Sergeant of Police, has been appointed to be Agent to the

Public Trustee at Palmerston North, from the 20th July,
1892, inclusive, vice Sergeant William Manning, transferred.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1892.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an
Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.
The Reverend H. Puget Raikes.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

ARTHUR JAMES JOHNSON, of 99, Queen Street,
Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has been appointed this day, by His Honour the Chief
Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose
of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and
affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of July, 1892.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar of the Supreme Court.

Additional Land taken in Block IV., Campbelltown Hundred, for the Purposes of the Invercargill-Bluff Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use,
convenience, and enjoyment of the Invercargill-Bluff
Railway, to take further land in Block IV., Campbelltown
Hundred, in addition to land previously acquired for the
purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in
that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes
above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Southland; as the said
parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan
marked 5406, deposited in the office of the New Zealand
Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon coloured
green.

Given under the common seal of the New
Zealand Railway Commissioners, at
Wellington, this nineteenth day of
July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-
two.

JAMES McKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.

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, to be called the senior scholarship, is