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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

Notice to Mariners, No. 11 of 1896.

BARQUE STRANDED IN BULLER RIVER, WESTPORT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 4th May, 1896.

THE Westport Harbour Board have notified that the barque “Coromandel,” recently stranded in the Buller River, has been successfully floated, and therefore the Notice to Mariners, No. 9 of 1896, issued by this department on the 21st ultimo, concerning the position of the vessel and the light exhibited therefrom, is cancelled.

T. THOMPSON,
For Minister of Marine.

Inviting Applications for Office of Inspector and Lecturer, Thames School of Mines.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 1st May, 1896.

WRITTEN applications, stating qualifications and accompanied by testimonials, will be received at this office up to Saturday, the 30th instant, for the position of Instructor and Lecturer to the School of Mines at the Thames, at a salary of £350 a year, and an allowance of 10s. a day while travelling in the district. Applicants must be qualified to impart instruction upon the following subjects: Mineralogy, metallurgy of gold and silver, mining, explosives and ventilation, chemistry, elementary mechanics, assaying, land- and mine-surveying, laboratory practice in assaying and practical chemistry.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Approval of By-laws as passed by the Stratford County Council.

PURSUANT to the authority contained in section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” I, William Hall-Jones, the Minister for Public Works, do hereby approve of the following by-laws made by the County Council of the County of Stratford.

Given under my hand, this 27th day of April, 1896.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

BY-LAWS OF THE STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

THAT it be a special order—That, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the County of Stratford, by the Stratford County Council, do, in respect of the part of the Ohura Road and the Toko Road under the care, control, and management of the said Council, make the following by-laws:—

“The traction of any vehicle or thing by means of bullocks on the part of the Ohura Road and the Toko Road within the County of Stratford shall cease for a period of twelve months commencing from the date of the coming into force of this by-law—that is to say, twenty-one days after the date of the New Zealand Gazette containing the notification of the approval of the Minister for Public Works of this by-law.

“If any person shall commit a breach of the foregoing by-law he shall be liable, upon conviction for such breach, to a penalty of not exceeding £5.”

I, William Monkhouse, of Stratford, Chairman of the Stratford County Council, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a special order instituted at a special meeting of the said Council held on the 26th day of June, 1895, and confirmed at a meeting held on the 21st day of August, 1895.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 15th day of January, 1896.

Wm. MONKHOUSE,
Chairman.

That it be a special order—That, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the County of Stratford, by the Stratford County Council, do, in respect of the Waiwiri Road, under the care, control, and management of the said Council, make the following by-law:—

“The traction of any vehicle or thing by means of bullocks on the Waiwiri Road, within the County of Stratford, shall cease for a period of twelve months from the date of the coming into force of this by-law—that is to say, twenty-one days after the date of the New Zealand Gazette containing the notification of the approval of the Minister for Public Works of this by-law.

“If any person shall commit a breach of the foregoing by-law he shall be liable, upon conviction for such breach, to a penalty of not exceeding £5.”

I, William Monkhouse, of Stratford, Chairman of the Stratford County Council, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a special order instituted at a special meeting of the said Council held on the 21st day of August, 1895, and confirmed at a meeting held on the 23rd day of September, 1895.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 15th day of January, 1896.

Wm. MONKHOUSE,
Chairman.

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.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phormium 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 materially 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 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;