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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 inspect 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 quantity 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 durability 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 production, 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 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.

Easter Holidays.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1896.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Friday the 3rd, Saturday the 4th, and Monday the 6th of April will be observed as holidays in the public offices of the Government of New Zealand.

By order.
R. H. GOVETT,
For Under-Secretary.

Native Assessor elected.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th March, 1896.

NOTICE has been received at this office under the hand of the Returning Officer that

REWITI TE RAKAHEREA

has been duly elected Native Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Taupo.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Under-Secretary.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1896.

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.

James Donald, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, farm-manager. Filed on the 5th day of March, 1896.

Peter Whitelaw, late of Mosshurn, in the Provincial District of Otago, farmer. Filed on the 12th day of March, 1896.

James Davison, late of Martinborough, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 12th day of March, 1896.

Edward Marr, late of Petane, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, labourer. Filed on the 13th day of March, 1896.

Francis Herbert Stewart, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, salesman. Filed on the 18th day of March, 1896.

John Turner, late of Wendonside, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 19th day of March, 1896.

Andrew Nelson, late of Cromwell, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 19th day of March, 1896.

Selina Jones, late of Napier, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, widow. Filed on the 19th day of March, 1896.

Edward Dennis, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, gardener. Filed on the 19th day of March, 1896.

Peter Galletly, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, lunatic. Filed on the 19th day of March, 1896.

Henry Thomas Jones, late of Lyttelton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, plasterer. Filed on the 20th day of March, 1896.

Agnes Sinclair, late of Hastings, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, housewife. Filed on the 21st day of March, 1896.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Public Notice under “The Stock Act, 1893,” re Swine-fever.
—No. 413.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 3rd May, 1895.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as “swine-fever” exists amongst pigs belonging to Mr. J. C. Anderson, of Stirling, farmer, and running on his farm-lands, comprising Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, in Block XIII., North Molyneux District, I therefore, in accordance with section 14, subsection (4), of “The Stock Act, 1893,” hereby declare such lands to be an infected place from which no swine, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fittings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.