MAR. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 347

The cost of bringing the machines or appliances on to the
ground, from within the colony, supplying the necessary
shafting, motive-power, and buildings, to be defrayed by the
Government. If any machine sent from beyond the colony
is awarded the bonus or part thereof, then the cost of
bringing such machine shall be borne by the Government.
The following shall be the basis of the test:—
The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quan-
tity of green hemp to each machine or process as a test.
The committee shall take into consideration—
The time occupied by each machine or process in the
operation;
The cost of labour and time required after the fibre has
left the machine or process before it is ready for
baling;
The percentage of dressed fibre and tow produced by
each machine or process;
The cost of producing the same;
The cost of the machine, and the simplicity and dura-
bility of the working parts.
On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a
report to the Minister on all the machines or processes which
they have examined or tested, and shall state,—
(1.) The machine or process which they consider on the
whole the most efficient and economic.
(2.) Whether they consider that any machine or process
tested so materially reduces the cost of produc-
tion, or improves the product, as to be worthy of
the whole bonus or of a part only.
(3.) Whether, in the event of no one machine or process
being entitled to the whole bonus, they deem any
machine or process worthy of a part of the bonus,
and, if so, how much.

Bonus No. 2.

A bonus of £250 is offered for a process of utilising the
waste products of the hemp.
The first three conditions of Bonus No. 1 to apply to this
also.
The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quantity
of the waste products to each process as a test.
On completion of the tests the committee shall report to
the Minister, and shall give the following particulars of each
process: (a.) The nature of the article made. (b.) The
quantity produced, and the cost of production. (c.) The
value of the product. (d.) Whether any of the processes are
of sufficient importance to warrant the Minister in giving
(1) the whole, or (2) any part, of the bonus; (3) if a part
only, how much.
JOHN McKENZIE.
Minister of Agriculture.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st September, 1893.
IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1895, the period of literature
will be the latter end of the eighteenth century, and the
special books will be Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar" and
Thackeray's "Esmond."
W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Election of Trustees of Drainage District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1894.
THE following result of the first election of trustees of
the Pukaka Drainage Board has been received from
the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with
the provisions of "The Land Drainage Act, 1893."
HUGH POLLEN.

Pukaka River Drainage District:
John Clervaux Chaytor.
Samuel Hunter.
Henry John William Lankow.
James Law.
Richard James Western.

Road Board Election.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1894.
THE following notice of the result of a Road Board elec-
tion has been received at this office, and is published
in accordance with the provisions of "The Road Boards
Act, 1882."
HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Eketahuna Road Board, County of Wairarapa North—
Frederick William Mead Dowsett.

Notice to Receivers of Public Moneys.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st March, 1894.
WITH a view to the early completion of the Treasury
Accounts of the current financial year, ending on
Saturday, the 31st March, Receivers are directed to prepare
copies of their cash-books for the period ended on that day,
and to transmit the same by post to the Receiver-General
immediately after the close of the bank on that date.
In the case of officers who account four-weekly, the period
ending on the 24th instant is hereby extended to the 31st,
and the copy of cash-book must embrace all transactions
from the 24th February to the 31st March.
If any bank receipts dated on or before the 31st instant
are received from sub-offices after copies of cash-books have
been rendered, officers are directed to enter all such receipts
in a supplementary account, and to transmit a copy thereof
to the Receiver-General daily, such account to be finally
closed on the 7th April.
The first ordinary account for the new year should be for
the period from the 2nd to 7th April, both inclusive, and
should only contain such revenue as shall have been paid to
the Public Account subsequent to the 31st instant, or col-
lected after bank hours on that date. The first four-weekly
account is to be made up to the 28th April next.
Receivers who account weekly are requested to take great
care that the copies of their cash-books to be rendered during
the current month are promptly posted.
JAMES B. HEYWOOD,
Receiver-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1894.—Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1894.
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 inti-
tuled "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 Walter George Ivons, B.A.
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice by the Public Trustee of his Election to administer
Intestate Estates.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1894.
NOTICE.—It is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the
provisions of section 8 of "The Public Trust Office
Acts Amendment Act, 1893," the Public Trustee, having
elected to administer the property of the following persons,
who, so far as is known, have died intestate within the
Colony of New Zealand, did file his election in writing at
the Supreme Court Office, at the place stated after the name
of each such deceased person:—
William Clifford, late of Pahiatua, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington. Filed at Wellington on the 21st day of
February, 1894.
James Curtin, late of Hastings, in the Provincial District
of Hawke's Bay. Filed at Napier on the 22nd day of Feb-
ruary, 1894.
William Henry Homer, late of Glenorchy, in the Provin-
cial District of Otago. Filed at Invercargill on the 17th day
of February, 1894.
Mary Hughes, late of Melbourne. Filed at Wellington on
the 19th day of February, 1894.
James Metcalf, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury. Filed at Christchurch on the 19th
day of February, 1894.
Frank Rossiter, late of Tekapo, in the Provincial District
of Canterbury. Filed at Christchurch on the 24th day of
February, 1894.
Horace Talbot, late of Woodslea Downs, in the Provincial
District of Otago. Filed at Invercargill on the 21st day of
February, 1894.
J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice by Public Trustee under "The Unclaimed Lands
Act, 1892."

In the matter of a parcel of land, containing by admeasure-
ment 63 acres, more or less, being Section 222, Block III.,
Ruataniwha Survey District, in the Provincial District of
Hawke's Bay, of which Peter Hart was owner at the time
of his death, all of whose family are known to be dead,
and remoter kin are unknown. Peter Hart came of a
Dublin family.
WHEREAS the Public Trustee has been made aware of
the above-described land having no known owner,
and he, having made reasonable inquiry, can discover neither