Nov. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1761

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road in Evans Bay District, Hutt County.

N OTICE is hereby given that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under the provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1894," for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in Evans Bay District, Hutt County: And notice is further given that the plan of the said land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Kilbirnie, and is there open for inspection, and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objection to the execution of the said public work, or to the taking of such land, set forth such objection in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17563, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured purple and red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

N OTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1897, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1899.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Potassium Cyanide.

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

N OTICE 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.

Officiating Ministers for 1895.—Notice No. 29.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1895.

P URSUANT 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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend W. S. Anzon-Siggers.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Francis Delach.

[This name is entered in substitution for that of Thomas Delach, previously entered in the general list, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 17th January, 1895.]

Wesleyan Methodist Church.

The Reverend John Nelson.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1895.

T HE Wanganui District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows, situated at Wanganui, is registered as a friendly society under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882," this 4th day of November, 1895.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1895.

T HE Manawatu Lodge, No. 6420, situated at Palmerston North, is registered as a branch of the Wanganui District Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society, under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882," this 4th day of November, 1895.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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

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

I T 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 with section 14, subsection (4), of "The Stock Act, 1893," hereby declare the under-mentioned lands to be an infected place, from which no stock, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fittings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock:—

Farm known as "Hollywood," occupied by Mrs. A. L. Martyn, of Ohaupo, comprising 600 acres, more or less.

Lands in occupation of Mr. D. Turnwald, Ohaupo, and used as a slaughter-yard, comprising 30 acres, more or less; and lands in occupation of D. Turnwald, bounded by farm occupied by Mrs. A. L. Martyn, and shore of Horseshoe Lake, 3 acres, more or less; lands in occupation of Mr. G. A. Kusab, near Ohaupo, 250 acres, more or less.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.