1474

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[NO. 61

Certificate and Declaration under "The Criminals Executions Act, 1883."

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th August, 1895.

THE following certificate and declaration are published in conformity with the provisions of "The Criminals Executions Act, 1883."
W. P. REEVES.

CERTIFICATE.

I, RODERICK ALEXANDER MACLEOD, the medical officer in attendance at the execution of Minnie Dean at the prison of Invercargill, do hereby certify and declare that I have this day witnessed the execution of the said Minnie Dean at the said prison; and I do further certify and declare that the said Minnie Dean was, in pursuance of the sentence of the Court, hanged by the neck until her body was dead.

Given under my hand, this twelfth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, at the prison of Invercargill.
R. A. MACLEOD, M.B., C.M.

DECLARATION.

WE do hereby testify and declare that we have this day been present when the extreme penalty of the law was carried into execution on the body of Minnie Dean, convicted at the Criminal Session of the Supreme Court held at Invercargill on the twenty-first day of June last, and sentenced to death; and that the said Minnie Dean was, in pursuance of the said sentence, hanged by the neck until her body was dead.

Dated this twelfth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, at the prison of Invercargill.

W. MARTIN,
Sheriff.
J. H. BRATBY,
Gaoler.
M. HAWKINS,
Warder.
GEo. LINDSAY,
Chaplain.
J. W. POYNTON,
Stipendiary Magistrate.
F. JOYCE.
H. CARRICK.
J. EOMONT GRYN.
E. B. MCKAY.
WM. SAUNDERS.

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 only, 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 of the Laying-of of a Road over Lands 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, 1894," that

the road described in the Schedule hereto was, in March, 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 warrants dated the 17th March, 1892, and the 1st September, 1892, respectively.

SCHEDULE.

ROAD KNOWN AS HUTT COUNTY ROAD.

| Being Portion
of Block |
| --- |
| Muaupoko
Block B |
| Muaupoko
A No. 8 |
| Muaupoko
A No. 7 |
| Muaupoko
A No. 6 |
| Muaupoko
A No. 5 |
| Muaupoko
A No. 4 |
| Muaupoko
A No. 3 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 7 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 51 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 52 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 53 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 5 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 54 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 55 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 50 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 49 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 48 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 47 |
| Ngarara W.
A No. 2 |

| Situated
in the
Survey
District
of |
| --- |
| Kaitawa
" |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |
| " |

| Coloured
on Plan. |
| --- |
| 912 Brown. |
| 912 Yellow. |
| 912 Purple. |
| 912 Green. |
| 912 Purple. |
| 912 Red. |
| 912 . |
| 912 Brown. |
| 912 Yellow. |
| 912 Red. |
| 912 Yellow. |
| 912 Red. |
| 912 Yellow. |
| 912 Purple. |
| 912 Red. |
| 912 Yellow. |
| 912 Purple. |
| 912 . |

All in the Land District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked 912, deposited in the District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Dated this sixteenth day of August, 1695.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Importation of Swine from New Zealand prohibited in Australia.—Notice No. 420.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 16th August, 1895.

THE following colonies have prohibited the importation of swine from New Zealand for the periods stated opposite each :—

South Australia ... One year from 1st instant.
Queensland ... Till revoked.
Tasmania ... Two years from 19th July.
Western Australia ... Till revoked.
New South Wales ... One year from 11th July.
Victoria ... Admits under strict quarantine.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Anthrax.— Notice No. 421.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 21st August, 1895.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as "anthrax" exists amongst stock running on certain lands in the County of Waipa, I therefore, in accordance