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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 produci**n**g at least 70

tons of crude cyanide of potassium annually.

2. The crude cyanide of pota**s**sium so man**u**f**a**ct**u**red **s**h**a**ll

contain at least 70 per cent. of potassium cyanide.

3. The bonus will be paid in two equal installments, the

first installment being payable on the production of the first
100 tons, and the second installment 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 appoint**e**d shall from time to time inspec**t**

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 ton**s** 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 pond will be paid on the production of the
first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,0001b.) 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**-**thir**d** 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 pay**a**ble until the whole of the one

hundred thousand pounds (100,0001b.) 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 produci**n**g 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 (100,0001b.) of quicksilver has been produced in the
aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN.
Minister of Mines.

Officiating Ministers for 1897.—Notice No. 3.

Registrar-General's Office****,
Wellington, 30th January, 1897.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth
year of the regn of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intitled
"The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information :—

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Hugh O'Rafferty.
The Reverend Daniel O'Shea.
The Reverend Patrick Long.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN.
Registrar-General.

Examination of Land-surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey.
Wellington, 30th January, 1897.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination
of surveyors under "The Land Act, 1892," as published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the 5th March, 1896, it is hereby notified that the third examination thereunder
will be held on the 17th March next.

S. PERCY SMITH.
Chairman of the Board of Examiners.

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

To the owner or owners of a parce of land, containing
3 roods, more or less, being lots numbered 8, 10, and 12, Block IV., on a subdivision forming the Township of
Lincoln, and being part of Rural Section 1880, Provincial
District of Canterbury, having a frontage to Robert
Street of 300 links by a depth of 250 links. The registered
owner is James Edward FitzGerald, now decased, who, it is believed, made the said subdivision, and sold this
land to a person now unknown at the time of the sale of
the township by him long since : his representatives disclaim any ownership. The land is at present in the
occupation of Messrs. W. Bartram and Co.

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 1st day of February, 1897.
JAMES C. MARTIN.
Public Trustee.

Notice No. 461, substituted for
Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Liver-fluke.—
Notice No. 449.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 7th September, 1896.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as
"liver-fluke" exists amongst sheep running on certain
lands in the Hawke's Bay Land District, 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 sheep, carcase, or any
portion thereof, shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock :—

All that piece of land, situated in the Hawke's Bay Land
District, called Te Hauke, and containing about 9,000 acres, being parts of Blocks XII. and XVI., Maraekakahu Survey
District, and Blocks IX. and XIII., Te Mata Survey District, in the Hawke's Bay County. Bounded by a line starting at the north-eastern corner of Block 13, in Block XVI., Maraekakahu Survey District ; thence in a north-east direction by a right line to Trig. Station N ; thence northerly by a right
line to the south-west corner of the Waikareao Block ; thence
generally north-easterly by the north-western boundaries of
the Raukawa Nos. 3 and 2 Blocks, the Pukehou No. 1, and
the Poukawa Native Reserve, and Koparakore A to the
north-western corner of the last-named block ; thence south-easterly by the north-eastern boundary A and B to its
intersection with the railway-line ; thence south-westerly
by a right line to Te Aute Railway-station ; thence south-west by the railway-line to its intersection with the Hawke's
Bay County boundary ; thence generally north-westerly by
the aforesaid boundary to the starting-point.

All that parce of land in the Land District of Hawke's
Bay, being called or known by the name of the "Ram
Paddock," containing about 80 acres, being a portion of
Whenuahou C Nos. 1 and 2 North, in Block III., Tahoraite
Survey District, Waipawa County. Bounded on the north-west by the Porongahau Stream ; on the north and east by
Blocks 120 and 69 ; and on the south generally by other
portion of Whenuahou C Nos. 1 and 2 North, aforesaid.

All that piece or parce of land in the Land District of
Hawke's Bay, being called or known by the name of
"Takapau Paddock," containing about 190 acres, being
portion of Subdivision No. 3, Otawhao Block, in Block III.,
Takapau Survey District, Waipawa County. Bounded on
the north by Blocks 234 and 120 ; on the south generally by
the Porongahau Stream and a public road ; and on the west
by the railway-line.