APRIL 16.](#)

On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a
report to the Minister on all the machines or processes which
thev have exanined 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 reductes the cost of produc-
tion, or improves the product, as to be worihy of
the whole bonus or of a part only.
(3.) Whether, in the event of no one machine or process
being entitied to the whole bonus, they deen any
machine or process worihy 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 hentp.
The first three conditions of Bonns No. 1 to apply to this
alsso.
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.

JOUN MCKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

BONUS for the PRODUCrION of Quicksilvcr.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

NOTICE is herebv given that a bonus of fourpence
(4d.) per round will be paid on the production of the
first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,0001b.) of
sood marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impuri-
tics, from any mine in New Zealanc, on the following con-
ditions, that is to say:--

1. That at least one-thircl of the quantity is produced on
   or before the 31st March, 1897, and the remaining two-
   thircis on or before the 31st March, 1899.
2. No bonus will be payabie until the whole of the one
   hundred thousand pounds (100,0001b.) of quicksilver has
   beon produced as stinulated to the satisfacnon of an officer
   to be appoinied by the Minister of Mincs, and on whose
   certifiate alone the bonus will be paid.
3. In the event of more than one person producins the
   requircd quantitits of quicksilver before the dates named,
   inquirv will be made by the officer above referred to, when,
   if it is found that each applicaut is equallv entitied to a
   bonus, the amount will be diviced in pruportion to the
   quautities produced by each applicaut, but in no case shall
   any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand
   pounds (100,0001b.) of quicksilver has been produced in the
   aggregate.

A. J. CACDMAN,
Minister of Mincs.

23rd April to be a Holidag (St. George's Day).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1896.

THURSDAY, the 23rd day of April instant, will be
observed as a public holiday in the Government offces
throuahout New Zealanc, for the cclebration of St. George's
Day.

W. C. WALKER,
Actins Colunial Secretary.

Officiating Minisrers for 1896.—Notice No. 10.

Regisirar-General's Office,
Wellington, 15th April, 1896.

PURSUANT to the provisious of an Act of the General
Assembiy of New Zealanc, passed in the forty-founh
year of the rcign of Her Majeety Queen Victuoria, and inti-
tuled "The Marriase Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Minisiers within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information:--
Wesleyan Methocist Church.
The Reverend Henrv L. Blamires.
" William S. Bovvie.
" Herbert Cradduck, M.A.
" Te Tnhi Heretini.
" Harold W. Williams.

The Reverend Alfrcc Wells Ashcrof.
" Job Benning.
" John Wesley Griffin.
" John Hosking, D.D.
" George Hounsell.
" Samnel Maciarlane.
" John Jeffree Pendray.
" Charles Penney.
" Alfrcc Pcters.
" Samnel Potts.
" Harry Blalre Redstone.
" John Wesley Worbovs.
" James Wrigley.
" Hush Bcgs.
" John Gilies Whatc Ellia.
" Bariou Hcnry Gisger.
" William Grig.
" Arthir Mitehell.
" John Orchard.
" Fredericx Quintrell.
" Frederick Thomas Read.
" William Reacly.
" Laxrence John Rvan.
" Arthir Ernest Stevens.
E. J. von DADFLSZEN,
Regisirar-General.

Officiating Minisrers for 1896.—Notice No. 11.

Regisirar-General's Office,
Wellington, 15th April, 1896.

IN accorciance with a request received from the President
of the Wesleyan Conference, the names of the under-
mentioned clergymen have been withdrawn from the list of
Officiating Minisiers of the Wesleyan Methocist Church,
under "The Marriase Act, 1880," for the year 1896:--
The Reverenc William H. Judkins.
" Wailer L. Salter.
" Frank Smith.
" John William Weatherrill Smith.
" William Sussex.
" David Weatherrall.
E. J. von DADFLSZEN,
Regisirar-General.

Appoinrment of Agerr at Blenheim to the Public Trusree.

Public Trusre Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1896.

IT is herebv notifled for general information that
Soreu CHRISTOPHER WilliAM MÖLLER,
Sergeant of Police, has been appoinied to be Agerr to the
Public Trusree at Blenheim, as from the 1st day of March,
1896, viac Sergeant-Major Scailan, transirrred.
J. K. WARRURTON,
Public Trusree.

Examinarion for Minc-mangcrs' and Barrety-supcrinrendents'
Cerrificares.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1896.

AN examinanon of candidates for certificates as First-
and Second-class Minc-mangcrs and Barrety-supcrin-
tendents under "The Mincing Act, 1891," and Amenc-
ment Act, 1894, and First- and Second-class Minc-mangcrs
under "The Cual-mines Act, 1891," will be held on Tuesday,
the 5th May, and three following days, at places to be
hereafter named. All applications, with necessary certifi-
cates, and fee of £1, must be addrcssed to "The Secrctary
of the Board of Examiners under the Mincing Act or Cual-
mines Act, Wellington," and must be received before the
25th April, or they will not be dealr with until the following
examinarion.
T. H. HAMER,
Secrctary to the Board of Examiners.

Public Nolicc under "The Srocl: Act, 1893," re Swine-fcver.
—No. 413.

Depariment of Agriculture (Livc-stock Braneh),
Wellington, 3rd May, 1895.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as
"swine-fever" exists amongs: pias belongins to Mr.
J. C. Andcrson, of Stirling, farmer, and running on his farm-
lands, comprisins Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, in Block XIII., North
Molyneux District, I therefore, in accorciance with sec-
uon 14, subsceion (4), of "The Stock Act, 1893," herebv
cclarc such lands to be an infecied place from which no