Nov. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1819

New Zealand Institute.

Wellington, 18th November, 1895.
THE under-mentioned members have been duly elected
Governors of the New Zealand Institute to represent
the incorporated societies for the ensuing year:—
JAMES MCKERROW, Esq., F.R.A.S.,
S. PERCY SMITH, Esq., F.R.G.S.,
Major-General SCHAW, C.B., R.E.
JAMES HECTOR,
Manager.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 19th November, 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 intestate estate of the person deceased
whose name, residence, and occupation, so far as known,
are hereunder respectively set forth, the gross property
being estimated not to exceed £250.
Alexander Le Grand Campbell, late of Wellington, in the
Provincial District of Wellington, Gentleman. Filed on the
13th day of November, 1895.
J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Certified Copy of Resolution of Shareholders of the Colonial
Bank of New Zealand confirming Contract for Sale of their
Business to Bank of New Zealand.

In the matter of "The Bank of New Zealand and Banking
Act, 1895," and of "The Bank of New Zealand and
Banking Act Amendment Act, 1895."
Certificate pursuant to section 8 of "The Bank of New
Zealand and Banking Act Amendment Act, 1895."
I, GEORGE McLEAN, president of the Colonial Bank
of New Zealand, and chairman of the special or extra-
ordinary general meeting held on the 8th day of November,
1895, of the proprietors or shareholders of the Colonial Bank
of New Zealand, called for the purpose of considering, ratify-
ing, or rejecting the contract for sale and purchase mentioned
or referred to in the preamble of "The Bank of New Zealand
and Banking Act Amendment Act, 1895," do hereby certify
that at such meeting a majority of the proprietors or share-
holders of the said the Colonial Bank of New Zealand for
the time being entitled, according to the deed of settlement
of the said bank, to vote, were present in person or by proxy,
and that at such meeting a resolution ratifying the said con-
tract and the sale and purchase thereby contracted for—
notice of the intention to propose which resolution at such
meeting had been duly given—was carried and duly passed,
and that the following is a true copy of such resolution (that
is to say):—
"That the contract of sale and purchase bearing date the
18th day of October, 1895, executed by and between the
Colonial Bank of New Zealand as the selling bank and the
Bank of New Zealand as the purchasing bank, and laid
upon the table of each House of the General Assembly on
the 18th day of October, 1895, and the sale and purchase
thereby contracted for, be and the same are hereby ratified
and confirmed."
Given under my hand this 12th day of November, 1895.
GEORGE McLEAN,
Chairman.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phor-
mium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 430.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st November, 1895.
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 for Agriculture, Wellington, and
   must reach him not later than the 31st March, 1897. 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 for Agriculture.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.
NOTICE 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 impuri-
ties, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following con-
ditions, 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.