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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25.

OBSTRUCTION OF CHANNELS IN PORT PHILLIP AND CORIO BAYS.

In the case of a vessel grounding in the South, West, or Hopetoun Channels, and thereby obstructing the navigation, the master or other person in charge of such vessel shall, in addition to the lights provided under “The Marine Act, 1890,” exhibit between sunset and sunrise two red lights, placed vertically 6ft. apart in globular lanterns of not less than eight (8) inches diameter, and in such a position from the white-light as to indicate as near as possible the position and extent of the obstruction, and he shall also have a man stationed as a look-out on board or in a boat to give warning to approaching vessels, and shall also, between sunrise and sunset, exhibit two balls or shapes in lieu of lights.

By order.
ALEXR. WILSON,
Port Officer.

Harbour Office, Customs,
Melbourne, 20th February, 1895.

Notice to Mariners, No. 11 of 1895.

BLUFF HARBOUR LIGHTSHIP REPLACED IN POSITION.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 1st April, 1895.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 44, of 1894, issued by this department on the 14th November last, the Bluff Harbour Board has notified that the lightship at the entrance to Bluff Harbour, which had dragged considerably, and was removed on the 13th November last, has been replaced in her original position and will be retained there.

W. P. REEVES,
For Minister of Marine.

Coal Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th March, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned coal lease, issued by James Pillans Maitland, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Otago Land District, as and being the Governor’s delegate in that behalf, cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for :—

Collins, Toussant Marie: Sections 134, 135, and 136, Block II., Leaning Rock Survey District; 24 acres and 13 perches. Otago Mining District.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads over Lands in the Auckland 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, 1894,” that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, on the 5th day of October, 1894, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 3rd day of July, 1894.

SCHEDULE.

ROADS THROUGH PAPAMOA BLOCK.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Block III., Te Tumu Survey District, containing by admeasurement 11 acres 3 roods 10 perches, more or less, being a road 100 links wide the centre line of which commences at a point, marked B on plan hereafter mentioned, on the southern side of the Tauranga-Te Puke Road, distant 1546·3 links south and 749·3 links west of Kowhararahi Pa Trig. Station, and extends in a south-westerly direction through the Papamoa No. 2 Block for a distance of 11911·8 links to a point, marked A on plan hereafter mentioned, on the boundary-line between the Crown and Native land, distant from Trig. Station B 2406·7 links north and 701·9 links east: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 7098¹, deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Block III., Te Tumu Survey District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 3 roods 32 perches, more or less, being a road 100 links wide the centre line of which commences at a point, marked B on plan hereafter mentioned, on the southern side of the Tauranga-Te Puke Road, distant 337 links south and 320·7 links west of road-peg No. xxvii., and extends in a generally southerly direction through the Papamoa No. 2 Block for a distance of 8974·7 links to a point, marked A on plan hereafter mentioned, on the boundary-line between the Crown and Native land, distant from Trig. Station X 394·8 links north and 132·3 links west: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 7098², deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Dated this 27th day of March, 1895.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Bonus on Starch.—Time for receiving Applications extended.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the time within which notice of intention to claim the bonus on starch must be given has been extended to the 30th April, 1895. The notification as to conditions, &c., is republished hereunder.

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 manufactured 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.

4. Evidence to be produced of such a nature as will enable an officer appointed by the Government to certify that the above-stated quantity in each year has been actually made, sold, and delivered.

5. The bonus to be paid only on the certificate of such officer.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

[NOTE.—The above notice is in lieu of notice dated 10th October, 1893, published in Gazette of 12th October, 1893.]

Bonus for the Manufacture of Potassium Cyanide.

Department of Industries and Commerce,
Wellington, 17th January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1,000 will be paid for the erection of a plant and the manufacture in New Zealand of the first 200 tons of crude cyanide of potassium from colonial produce.

1. The plant must be capable of producing at least 70 tons of crude cyanide of potassium annually.

2. The crude cyanide of potassium so manufactured shall contain at least 70 per cent. of potassium cyanide.

3. The bonus will be paid in two equal instalments, the first instalment being payable on the production of the first 100 tons, and the second instalment on the production of the second 100 tons, of crude cyanide of potassium containing the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

4. On the completion of the plant, notice in writing must be sent to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Wellington, who will appoint an officer to inspect the same, together with the raw material then available from which the cyanide of potassium is proposed to be manufactured.

5. The officer so appointed shall from time to time inspect the process of manufacture, in order that he may satisfy himself that the whole of the cyanide of potassium is being manufactured from material of New Zealand production; and before any bonus is paid such officer will be required to certify that he is satisfied the crude cyanide of potassium is the product of New Zealand material only, and that it contains the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

6. The bonus must be claimed for the first 100 tons on or before the 31st March, 1897, and for the second 100 tons on or before the 30th September, 1898.

J. G. WARD.

Amended Advertisement.—Prizes of £150 and £100 offered for Designs for Postage and Revenue Stamps.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1895.

DESIGNS are invited for a new issue of postage and revenue stamps. For the series of designs which may be adjudged by the Postmaster-General to be the best there will be prizes of £150 and £100 respectively.

Specifications may be seen at the General Post Office, Wellington, or at any Chief Post-office.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.