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(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 produc-
tion, 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.

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 contain-
   ing 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, Wel-
   ington, 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.

R. J. SEDDON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

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 impuri-
ties, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following con-
ditions, 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.

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Result of Road Board Election.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1897.

THE following notice of election of a member of a Road
Board has been received at this office, and is published
in accordance with the provisions of "The Road Boards
Act, 1882."

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Kaurihohore Road District, County of Whangarei :
John Hugh McKenzie.

Notice 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 publica-
tion hereof, and will be administered under the said Act,
the value of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of January, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 20
perches, be the same a little more or less, situate in the
Town of Okarito, in the County of Westland, and numbered
26 on the map of the Chief Surveyor setting out and de-
scribing the Town of Okarito aforesaid. Bounded on the
northward by Wharf Street, 50 links; on the eastward by
Victoria Street, 250 links; on the southward by Section 198,
50 links; and on the westward by Section 25, 250 links.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land containing
25 perches, more or less, being Lots 43 and 44 on De-
posited Plan No. 193, said to be Fairlie Township, and
being part of Rural Section 20810, District of Tengawai,
in the Provincial District of Canterbury, being of tri-
angular shape, having frontages to Buchanan Street of
186 links, and to Argyll Street of 167 links, of which the
last registered owner is John Sharp, described in the
title of the said land as of Fairlie Creek, Stonemason, of
whom or of whose family nothing is traceable.

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 23rd day of January, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1897.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 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 in-
tituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
Griffiths, The Reverend John.
Primitive Methodist Connexion.
Bourne, The Reverend John M.
Pybus, The Reverend Thomas A.
E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

[ERRATUM.—In general list, page 3, under head of "Presbyterian
Church of New Zealand," for "George Young Robey" read "George
Young Roby."]