April 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 655

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.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of
"The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894."

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Nelson Miller, late of Napier, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, labourer. Filed on the 3rd day of April, 1895.

C. McKinnon, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland. Filed on the 3rd day of April, 1895.

Frederick Hooker, late of Merivale, in the Provincial District of Otago, miner. Filed on the 3rd day of April, 1895.

John Devlin, late of Brunnerton, in the Provincial District of Westland, miner. Filed on the 5th day of April, 1895.

Richard Hutchison Henderson, late of Alford Forest, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, station cook. Filed on the 5th day of April, 1895.

John Cornwall McGaveston, late of Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson, labourer. Filed on the 5th day of April, 1895.

James Law, late of Nelson Creek, in the Provincial District of Westland, miner. Filed on the 5th day of April, 1895.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE is hereby given that FRANK SHAW FITCHETT, of Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria, has been this day appointed by his Honour Christopher William Richmond, Esq., a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, under the 2nd section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," to be a Commissioner in the Colony of Victoria for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of April, 1895.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar of Supreme Court.

Officiating Ministers for 1895.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1895.

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 intituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend James Standring.
The Reverend Isaac Kirker McIntyre.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Patent Office Supplement.

A SPECIAL Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette is now published fortnightly, containing all notices concerning patents and trade-marks required by law to be gazetted; also, particulars of lapsed applications for patents, expired letters patent, and other information useful to inventors, manufacturers, and others. The Supplement will be issued free to subscribers to the Gazette, and to others on payment of a subscription of ten shillings per annum, payable in advance to the Government Printer.

SAMUEL COSTALL,
Government Printer.

Crown Lands Notices.

Lease of Pastoral Land, Nelson and Marlborough, for Sale
by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 28th March, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned land, known as the Tophouse Run, containing 28,748 acres, will be offered for lease by public auction for the term of twenty-one years, at this office, on Wednesday, the 8th May, 1895, at 11 a.m.

Sections 4 and 7, Motupiko and Rintoul Survey District, 24,400 acres.

Sections 3 and 6, Motupiko and Rintoul Survey District, 1,250 acres.

Part of Reserve D, 1,098 acres.

Part of Reserve D, 2,000 acres.

Upset rental, £60 per annum. Weighted with valuation for improvements, to be specified before the sale.

The above run will be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of Part VI. of "The Land Act, 1892."

JOHN S. BROWNING,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.