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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

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.

Appointment of Valuer under “The Government Advances to Settlers Act, 1894.”

Government Advances to Settlers Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1896.

IT is hereby notified for general information that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR PYNE O’CALLAGHAN, Esq.,

of Timaru, New Zealand, to be a Valuer, from the 1st July, 1896, for the business of the Government Advances to Settlers Office.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Superintendent.

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

To the owner or owners of those parcels of land, each containing 40 acres, more or less, and being Sections 98, 146, 155, 156, and 158, Parish of Hunua, also said to be in Block XII., Wairoa Survey District, County of Manukau, of which the last registered owner is Sidney Henry Cornish, of Auckland, commission agent, whose whereabouts cannot 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 13th day of July, 1896.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maoris under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, and are open to all Maoris under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have not been pupils at Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory. The senior scholarship is offered for competition among Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1893, and in the supplementary regulations that have been sent out to all teachers. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1893. The questions will, however, be more difficult than those set for the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 21st and 22nd December, 1896.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 24th March, 1896.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of June, 1896. Altitude above the sea, 140ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means.

† Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Fine early part of month; the maximum rain recorded on 8th, 2·25 inches; then fine again until 15th, from which date until end generally showery. Winds throughout moderate and variable, and frequent calms. Fogs on five days. Mild weather for time of year. Maximum temperature in shade 66°, minimum 38°·5; mean temperature of dew-point, 44·2. Mean humidity, 80.

R. B. GORE, Observer.