No. 47. An Act to amend certain Acts relating to Public Works and Government Railways.
No. 48. An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Societies of Public-School Teachers, and the Establishment of a Court to hear and determine Appeals by such Teachers against Dismissal or Suspension.
No. 49. An Act for the Promotion of Elementary Technical Instruction.
No. 50. An Act to amend “The Bank of New Zealand and Banking Act, 1895.”
No. 52. An Act to amend the Native Land Laws.
No. 53. An Act to amend the law relating to the Administration of Native Reserves.
No. 54. An Act to determine Certain Claims and Disputes, and to fulfil certain Contracts and Promises made by or on behalf of the Government, in relation to Native Lands.
No. 55. An Act to amend “The Westland and Nelson Native Reserves Act, 1887.”
No. 56. An Act to amend “The Lunatics Act, 1882,” by conferring upon the Public Trustee certain further and larger Powers than he now possesses.
No. 57. An Act to authorise Local Authorities to convert and consolidate their Loans.
No. 58. An Act to amend “The Land Act, 1892.”
No. 59. An Act to amend “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”
No. 60. An Act to amend “The Mining Act, 1891” (hereinafter called “the principal Act”).
No. 61. An Act to amend “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”
No. 62. An Act to authorise the Construction of an Extension of the Kaihu Valley Railway on Behalf of Her Majesty.
No. 63. An Act to authorise Her Majesty to purchase the Fernhill Railway.
No. 64. An Act to amend the Law relating to Transfer of Chattels.
No. 65. An Act to authorise the Disposal and Exchange of certain Reserves and other Lands.
No. 66. An Act to amend “The Abattoirs and Slaughter-houses Act, 1894.”
No. 67. An Act to amend the Stamp Acts.
No. 68. An Act to make Fuller Provision for the Safe Custody of the Securities belonging to Public Offices and Departments.
No. 69. An Act to amend “The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”
No. 70. An Act to amend the Land and Income Assessment Acts.
No. 71. An Act to impose a Land-tax and an Income-tax.
No. 72. An Act to appropriate certain Sums of Money for Public Works and other Purposes.
No. 73. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, and other Moneys, to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first day of March, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Present Session.

I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.

Governor the Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., &c.

[NOTE.—No. 51. “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act Amendment Act, 1895.”—See despatch from Secretary of State published in Gazette No. 21, of 26th March, 1896, page 517.]

Notice to Mariners, No. 9 of 1896.

POSITION OF STRANDED BARQUE IN BULLER RIVER, WESTPORT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 21st April, 1896.

THE Westport Harbour Board have notified that the port bow of the barque “Coromandel,” recently stranded in the Buller River, lies on the north-east side of the red river leading-lights, about 80ft. distant from them, while the stern of the vessel is about 160ft. from the fairway; and that a bright light is shown from the forestay of the “Coromandel” from sunset to sunrise.

T. THOMPSON,
For Minister of Marine.

Notice to Mariners, No. 10 of 1896.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 21st April, 1896.

THE following hydrographic notice, received from His Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief, Australian Station, is published for general information.

T. THOMPSON,
For Minister of Marine.

AUSTRALIAN STATION.

“Orlando,” at Lyttelton, 22nd February, 1896.

(Hydrographic Notice No. 15.)

THE following hydrographic notice is promulgated for general information and guidance:—

Whangaparoa Bay, New Zealand.

Information has been received from the Harbourmaster at Auckland that a rock exists in Whangaparoa Bay, east coast of New Zealand, in latitude 36° 35' S., longitude 174° 50' E.

This rock, on which the s.s. “Wellington” struck, is said to have 11ft. of water over it, and to break in easterly gales.

Chart affected, No. 2543.

(“Katoomba,” Note No. 1, 24th January, 1896; Office No. 474.)

CYPRIAN A. G. BRIDGE, Rear-Admiral.

To the respective captains, commanders, and officers commanding Her Majesty’s ships and vessels on the Australian Station.

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; 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.

Bonus for Destruction of Rabbits.—Notice No. 436.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch), Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1895.

A BONUS of £1,000 is offered for a practical scheme for the destruction of rabbits.

The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand, and must reach him not later than 31st May, 1896. Each application must be accompanied by a full description of the means proposed to be adopted.

2. 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 schemes they deem worthy of further consideration, and are satisfied may be used with absolute safety.

On completion of the committee’s preliminary investigations each applicant will be notified of the decision arrived at, and whether or not his individual scheme will be further inquired into.

The committee may afterwards inspect the whole or any of the schemes at any place or places within the colony, or may direct that the whole or any of them be submitted for trial at such time and place as they may think fit.

The following shall be a basis of the trial:—

1. A suitable piece of rabbit-infested land shall be allowed to each applicant (of whose scheme the committee have approved), and on which he will have full power to carry out a trial of his scheme for a period not exceeding two years.

2. Each applicant on expiry of the period named shall submit a detailed and accurate statement of the actual cost incurred in testing his scheme.