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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.

First Election of Trustees, Upper Plain Irrigation District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1896.

THE following result of the first election of the Upper Plain Irrigation District has been furnished by the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893”:

Trustees elected.

Richard Brown,
Edmund Edenborough Chamberlain,
Thomas Edenborough Chamberlain,
John Hessey,
Frank Hood,
James Mackersey, and
Augustin Stempa.

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Tenders for Mail Steam-service to Chatham Islands.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 9th January, 1896.

ALTERNATIVE tenders will be received at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch, until noon of Saturday, the 8th February, 1896, for the conveyance of mails by steamer to and from the Chatham Islands, calling at such places in the group as may be determined upon by the Postmaster-General—first, for a service once a month; second, for a service once every two months; and third, for a service once every three months, for one and for two years from the 1st April, 1896, with Lyttelton or Wellington as the optional port of departure and arrival in New Zealand, or with Wellington as the port of departure and Lyttelton the port of arrival.

Tenders, indorsed “Tender for Chatham Islands Mail-service,” to be addressed to the Chief Postmaster, Christchurch.

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Name, tonnage, and horse-power of steamers proposed to be used to be stated.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 63 acres, more or less, being Block 238, Rangitikei District, in the Makohau Riding of Rangitikei County, of which the grantee and owner is John Smith, of Manawatu, shoemaker, formerly a private in the 65th Regiment, and of whom nothing can be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 15th day of January, 1896.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 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.

Isaac Anderson, late of Little River, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, labourer. Filed on the 6th day of January, 1896.

Isaac Marwick, late of Pukerau, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 6th day of January, 1896.

Frederick Burford, late of Karahaka, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, farmer. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1896.

John Murphy, late of Addington, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, labourer. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1896.

Samuel Whitno, late of Palmerston North, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1896.

Peter William Wilson, late of Half-way, No Town, in the Provincial District of Westland, miner. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1896.

Thomas Leslie, late of Coal Island, in the Provincial District of Otago, miner. Filed on the 13th day of January, 1896.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Public Notice under “The Stock Act, 1893,” re Anthrax.—Notice No. 421.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 21st August, 1895.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as “anthrax” exists amongst stock running on certain lands in the County of Waipa, I therefore, in accordance with section 14, subsection (4), of “The Stock Act, 1893,” hereby declare the under-mentioned lands to be an infected place, from which no stock, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fittings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock:—

Farm known as “Holmwood,” occupied by Mrs. A. L. Martyn, of Ohaupo, comprising 600 acres, more or less.

Lands in occupation of Mr. D. Turnwald, Ohaupo, and used as a slaughter-yard, comprising 30 acres, more or less; and lands in occupation of D. Turnwald, bounded by farm occupied by Mrs. A. L. Martyn, and shore of Horseshoe Lake, 3 acres, more or less; lands in occupation of Mr. G. A. Kusab, near Ohaupo, 250 acres, more or less.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.