MAY 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 773

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1894.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignation of the commission held by the under-
mentioned officer:—

Wellington City Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Thomas Wilson. Date of resignation, 23rd
April, 1894.

W. P. REEVES,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st May, 1894.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignations of the commissions held by the
under-mentioned officer and honorary officers:—

Greymouth Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Charles James. Date of resignation, 3rd May,
1894.

Greymouth Naval Artillery Volunteers.

Honorary Surgeon John Perret Millington. Date of resigna-
tion, 3rd May, 1894.

First Westland Rifle Volunteers.

Honorary Chaplain John Edwin Blackburn. Date of re-
signation, 30th April, 1894.

JOHN McKENZIE,
For Minister of Defence.

Notice of Intention to take Land for part of Opua-Waimate
Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1882," to exe-
cute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of por-
tion of a road in the Kawakawa Survey District known as
the Opua-Waimate Road, and for the purposes of such
public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is
required to be taken; and notice is further given that the
plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken
is deposited in the post-office at Kawakawa, 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 land shall, if they have any well-grounded
objections to the execution of the said public work or to
the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and
send such writing, within forty days from the first publica-
tion of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wel-
ington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

| Approximate | Being Portion of | Survey District |
| Area of the Par- | | of |
| cel of Land | | |
| required to be | | |
| taken. | | |
| A. R. P. | | |
| 8 0 8 | Old Land-claim No. 1316.. | Kawakawa. |

In the Auckland Land District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twelfth day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four.

JOHN McKENZIE,
For the Minister for Public Works.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Land in the
Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under
the authority of "The Native Land Court Act, 1886," and
its amendments, that the road described in the Schedule
hereto was, on the 29th October, 1883, 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
dated the 17th May, 1882.

SCHEDULE.

Road to Section 12, Block XIII., Aohanga Survey Dis-
trict, Wellington Land District.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 7 acres 3 roods 33 perches, more or less,

situated in Block XIII., Aohanga Survey District, being
a road not less than 100 links wide, the centre-line of which
commences on the road from Mataikuna to Knob Saddle at a
point marked "C" on the plan hereinafter mentioned, passing
through Section No. 820 to the south-western boundary-line
of Section No. 12 at a point marked "B" on the plan hereafter
mentioned, a distance of 7957 links: be the aforesaid link-
age more or less; as the same is particularly delineated
upon plan marked P.W. 699, deposited in the District Land
and Survey Office, Wellington, in the Wellington Land Dis-
trict, and thereon coloured pink.

Dated this 14th day of May, 1894.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 14th May, 1894.

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

George Wise, for the Larry's Creek Gold-mining Company:
Section 27, Block VII., Reefton; 58 acres 1 rood 39 perches.
No. 1517.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

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.

Bonus on Mineral Oil manufactured from Orepuki Shale.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus will be paid for the
production of mineral oil under the following condi-
tions:—

1. A bonus of 1s. per gallon (£5,000) will be paid on the
   first 100,000 gallons of mineral oil produced from shale
   obtained in the Orepuki district, Otago; the oil to be of a
   quality approved of by Government, and to be sold at a fair
   average market price.

2. Notice of intention to claim the aforesaid bonus must
   be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than
   the 31st December, 1894.

3. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1895.

4. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of the
   Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions to be the
   recipient of the bonus.

5. The other conditions, as to quantity, priority, quality,
   and value, to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer ap-
   pointed for the purpose by the Government.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Bonus on Starch manufactured in New Zealand.—Amended
Notice.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of two pounds
(£2) a ton will be paid on 100 tons of starch manu-
factured in the Colony of New Zealand in each of the years
1893 and 1894.

CONDITIONS.

1. Notice of intention to claim the bonus for 100 tons in
   1893 must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not
   later than the 31st December, 1893. Notice of intention to
   claim the bonus for 100 tons in 1894 must be given in the
   same manner not later than the 31st December, 1894.

2. The claims must be made respectively before the 31st
   December, 1893 and 1894.

3. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of the
   Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions is to be
   the recipient of the bonus.