Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1229

Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th July, 1894.

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

James Grieve, for the Multum in Parvo Gold-mining Com-
pany: Section 107, Block XI., Reefton, 3 acres 3 roods 3
perches. No. 1429.

Just in Time Gold-mining Company: Section 49, Block
XI., Reefton, 7 acres 2 roods 19 perches. No. 1423.

Walter Irving, for the United Devonshire Quartz-mining
Company: Section 130, Block XIV., Reefton, 16 acres 2
roods. No. 1419.

William Goodwin Collings, for the Empress Gold-mining
Company: Section 5, Block II., Waitahu, 16 acres. No. 1499.

John Blennerhassett Beeche, for the Sanguine Gold-mining
Company: Section 15, Block X., Waitahu, 16 acres 2 roods
4 perches. No. 1478.

John McQuillan, for the Murray Gold-mining Company:
Section 1, Block X., Waitahu, 16 acres 2 roods 2 perches.
No. 1480.

John McQuillan, for the Enterprise Gold-mining Com-
pany: Section 2, Block X., Waitahu, 16 acres 1 rood 39
perches. No. 1474.

John Trennery, for the Gladstone Gold-mining Company:
Section 3, Block X., Reefton, 16 acres 2 roods 1 perch.
No. 1465.

John McGregor, for the Lucid Gold-mining Company:
Section 140, Block XIV., Reefton, 3 acres 2 roods 13 perches.
No. 1357.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-mining Lease and Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th July, 1894.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-
mining lease and 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:—

The Specimen Hill Extended Quartz-mining Company
(Limited): Sections 4, 8, and 9, Block XI., Reefton, 43 acres
1 rood 15 perches. No. 994. Special claim.

John Quillinane, for the Juna Gold-mining Company,
transferred to the Specimen Hill United Gold-mining Com-
pany: Section 115, Block XI., Reefton, 16 acres 2 roods
3 perches. No. 1488.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th July, 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 appli-
cation as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied
for:—

George Wise, for the Paparoa Gold-mining Company:
Section 19, Block V., Mawheranui, 32 acres. No. 1437.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th July, 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 appli-
cation as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied
for:—

Eclipse Gold-mining Company (Limited): Section 78,
Block XIV., Reefton, 16 acres 2 roods. No. 1273.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phor-
mium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 387.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st February, 1894.

Bonus No. 1.

A BONUS of £1,750 is offered for a machine or process
for dressing New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax)
which shall be an improvement on the machines or processes
now in use, and which shall, after trial, be found to mate-
rially reduce the cost of production, improve the product, or
increase the quantity of dressed fibre.

The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed
   to the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture, Wellington, and
   must reach him not later than the 30th August, 1894. Each
   application must be accompanied by a description of the
   machine or process, particularly stating improvements on
   present machines or processes, and also the cost at which
   the machine or process can be supplied.

2. The applicants must be prepared to submit their
   machines or processes to examination at such time and
   place as the Government may direct.

3. The Government shall appoint a committee of three or
   more experts, to whom all applications shall be submitted.
   Such committee shall, after perusal, state what machines or
   processes they deem worthy of consideration, and may in-
   spect the same at any place within the colony; and, having
   so inspected the whole or any of them, may direct that the
   whole or any of them be brought for further trial to such
   place as they may think fit.

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.

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