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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

sinking fund as aforesaid. Such special rate to be, and remain permanently and exclusively, appropriated to the purposes of such interest and sinking fund.
Dated this 17th day of August, 1892.
F. H. D. BELL,
Mayor.

1. I vote for the above proposal.
2. I vote against the above proposal.
   N.B.—The voter must erase the line marked 2 if he wishes to vote for the proposal, and line 1 if he wishes to vote against it.

This is the voting-paper marked with the letter “A” referred to in the annexed declaration of Francis Henry Dillon Bell, made this 4th day of October, 1892, before me—P. Levi, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

In the matter of “The Wellington City Sanitation Loan Empowering Act, 1892,” and of Part IX. of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886.”

I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, of Featherston Street, in the City of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, Mayor of the said city, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. That all proceedings which by the joint operation of the above-named Acts were required to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the citizens of the said City of Wellington to a proposal of the Council of the said city to raise the sum of £165,000 by way of special loan under the provisions of the said Acts (which proposal is set out in the voting-paper hereunto annexed and marked with the letter A) have been duly taken.

2. That, upon a poll of the said citizens taken on the said proposal on the 26th day of September, 1892, the said proposal was duly carried within the meaning of the above-named Acts (read together).

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
F. H. D. BELL,
Mayor of Wellington.

Declared at the City of Wellington, this 4th day of October, 1892, before me — P. Levi, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Land in the Kai-Iwi Block, Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Native Land Act, 1873,” and the amendments thereof, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the third day of December, 1884, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant of the date mentioned therein.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Nukumaru Survey District, Land District of Wellington, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 33 perches, more or less, being a road, 100 links wide, the centre line of which commences at a point on the south-eastern boundary-line of the Kai-Iwi Block (the said point being marked G on the plan hereinafter referred to) distant south 20688 links and west 3208 links from Trig. Station Mount Smith; and proceeds in a north-westerly direction, intersecting the said Kai-Iwi Block, to a point distant south 20477 links and west 3674 links from the aforesaid trig. station (marked F on the plan hereinafter referred to): as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W. 245, deposited in the District Survey Office, Wellington.
Date of Governor’s warrant, 5th November, 1880.
Dated this 16th day of July, 1892.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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 certifi-
   cate 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.

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.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 15th September, 1892.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1894, the period of literature will be the reign of Queen Anne, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s King Henry V. and Lamb’s Essays of Elia.
W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.—Notice No. 30.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 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:—

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend James Flood.
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Special Registration of Unregistered Births permitted by “The Registration of Births and Deaths Amendment Act, 1892.”

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1892.

THE attention of the public is drawn to the opportunity afforded for a limited time—i. e., twelve months from the 24th September last—to persons, or the parents of persons, whose births cannot now be registered under “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875,” of effecting a special registration by application to the Registrar-General.