Dec. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2147

Officiating Ministers for 1897.—Notice No. 26.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1897.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend David Jamieson, M.A.
E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—Alexander John McLachlan, Esq., of Eagle Chambers, Adelaide, S.A., a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia, has this day been appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in South Australia, under the 2nd section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of November, 1897.
W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—Alfred Robert Oakey Lowndes, Esq., of George Street, London, a Solicitor of the High Court of Judicature, England, has this day been appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under the 2nd section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of November, 1897.
W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894," made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act, the value of the said undivided moiety being less than £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of December, 1897.
JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

The one undivided moiety, share, and interest of, in, and to all that parcel of land, containing 20 acres 1 rood 17 perches, more or less, being Rural Section No. 12434, at or near Little River, in the Provincial District of Canterbury. This section is intersected by the Akaroa Road.

New Zealand Hemp.—Notice No. 478.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 30th March, 1897.

THE time for receiving applications for the bonuses mentioned in Notice No. 430 has been extended to 31st December, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

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 mate-

rially 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 December, 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;
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.

Tenders for the Supply of Satchels, Valises, and Leggings.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1897.

TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until Monday, 13th December, 1897, for the supply of letter-carriers' and telegraph messengers' satchels and leggings and telegraph linemen's valises, for the three years ending 31st December, 1900.

The approximate quantities required in each year will be eighty satchels and valises and a hundred pairs of leggings.

Samples may be seen at the Chief Post-offices at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and at the Post and Telegraph Store, Wellington.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders must be accompanied by one sample of each of the articles required. In the case of unsuccessful tenderers the samples will be purchased by the department.

Tenders should be addressed to "The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington," and indorsed "Tender for Letter-carriers' Satchels, &c."

W. GRAY,
Secretary.