Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1667

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of Roads through Section 88, Square 7, Mount Arthur District, and Sections 39 and 40, Square 15, Pakawau District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Nelson Waste Lands Act, 1863,” and its amendments, and under all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in that behalf, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, in January, 1891, 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.

MOTUEKA TO TABLE LAND ROAD.

ALL that piece of land in Mount Arthur Survey District, Land District of Nelson, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 2 roods, more or less, being a road, 100 links wide and upwards, the southern side of which commences at a point on the western boundary-line of Section No. 88, Block XII., 2216 links from the south-western corner of that section; and proceeds in an easterly direction, intersecting the said Section No. 88, to a point on the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 80, Block XII., 1824 links from its westernmost corner: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the said piece of land is more particularly delineated on the plan deposited in the District Land and Survey Office, Nelson.

Date of Governor’s warrant, 12th October, 1880.

ROADS IN PAKAWAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

All that piece of land in Pakawau Survey District, Land District of Nelson, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 1 rood 34 perches, more or less, being a road, 100 links wide, the eastern side of which commences at a point on the north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 39, Block II., 2299 links, more or less, from the north-eastern corner of that section; and proceeds in a south-easterly direction, intersecting the said Section No. 39, to the south-eastern boundary at West Wanganui Inlet.

Also all that piece of land in Pakawau Survey District, Land District of Nelson, containing by admeasurement 4 acres, more or less, being a road, 100 links wide, the western side of which commences at a point on the northern boundary-line of Section No. 40, Block II., 1390 links from the north-western corner of that section; and proceeds in a south-westerly direction, intersecting the said Section No. 40, to its western boundary at West Wanganui Inlet; and thence along the shore of the said West Wanganui Inlet, intersecting the said section for about 20 chains.

As the said pieces of land are more particularly delineated on the plan deposited in the District Land and Survey Office, Nelson.

Date of Governor’s warrant, 12th October, 1880.

Dated this 6th day of December, 1892.

A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Kenepuru–Manaroa Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road through Sections Nos. 12 and 130, Pelorus Sound, Survey District of Gore, Land District of Marlborough, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plan of the said road and of the lands so required to be taken is deposited at the Post-office, Kenepuru, and is there open for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Marlborough; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 12932, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister for Public Works.

Judges authorised to exercise Jurisdiction under “The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1892.”

Native Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise the under-mentioned Judges of the Native Land Court to exercise jurisdiction under “The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1892,” namely:—

GEORGE BOUTFLOWER DAVY, Esq.
LAUGHLIN O’BRIEN, Esq.
ALEXANDER MACKAY, Esq.
DAVID SCANNELL, Esq.
ROBERT WARD, Esq.
GEORGE ELLIOTT BARTON, Esq.
SPENCER WILLIAM VON STÜRMER, Esq.
WALTER EDWARD GUDGEON, Esq.

A. J. CADMAN.

New Zealand Institute.

Colonial Museum,
Wellington, 8th December, 1892.

THE under-mentioned Members have been duly elected Governors of the New Zealand Institute to represent the incorporated societies for the ensuing year:—

Sir WALTER BULLER, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c.
JAMES MCKERROW, Esq., F.R.A.S.
STEPHENSON PERCY SMITH, Esq., F.R.G.S.

JAMES HECTOR,
Manager.

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.

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.