SEPT. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1689

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.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section 9, Block XXIII., situate in the Town of Hawkesbury, and Provincial District of Otago. Bounded towards the north by Section 8, 250 links; towards the east by Edinburgh Street, 100 links; towards the south by Cupar Street, 250 links; and towards the west by Section 10, 100 links. The grantee is one Charles Hubbard, described as of Waikouaiti, settler, who 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 18th day of September, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 11 acres, more or less, being Section 62, on Square 23, District of Happy Valley, in the Provincial District of Nelson. Bounded on the north-eastward by Section 69, on the said square, 2200 links; on the southward by Section 63, on the said square, 970 links; on the south-westward by the banks of a stream running into the Happy Valley River; and on the westward by Section 61, on the said square, 750 links. The land was Crown-granted to George Hugh Grant Whiting, described as of Nelson, schoolmaster, but of whom 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 18th day of September, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 1897.

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.

Samuel Sharpe, late of Waitotara, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 16th day of September, 1897.

John Wallace, or Willis, late of Takapau, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, cook. Filed on the 17th day of September, 1897.

William Scott, late of Warepa, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 17th day of September, 1897.

Charles Reinhardt, late of Kawakawa, in the Provincial District of Auckland, commission agent. Filed on the 17th day of September, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Commissioners of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—WILLIAM HUGH JONES, of Perth, W.A., HENRY WEAVER, of Armidale, N.S.W., MICHAEL GILCREEST, of Forbes, N.S.W., DAVID U. DICKIE, of Glasgow, Scotland, SYDNEY H. PEDDAR, of London, and ALFRED E. BARNES, of Sydney, Solicitors, have been appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice Commissioners of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, 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 31st day of December, 1896.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—RICHARD JOHN LEEPER, Esq., of Celtic Chambers, George Street, Brisbane, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, has this day been appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Queensland, 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 19th day of August, 1897.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—CHARLES HERBERT TOLHURST, Esq., of Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has this day been appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the Colony of Victoria, 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 1st day of July, 1897.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Public Notice under “The Stock Act, 1893,” re Liver-fluke.—Notice No. 470.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 5th January, 1897.

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 or parcel of land, known as the Te Aute Run, situated in the Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, and Patangata Counties, bounded as follows: Commencing at the Te Aute Railway-station, thence in a northerly direction along the boundary of the Te Hauke Proclaimed District to the point where the prolongation of the boundary between Lots 1 and 2 of the Ngawhakatatarā Block continued across the Poukawa Lake would strike it; thence easterly along the said line and boundary to the Tukituki River; thence up that river to the south boundary of Patangata No. 2; thence westerly along the southern boundary of that block to the Papanui Stream; thence up that stream and the eastern boundary of Patangata No. 3 to the southern boundary of that block; thence westerly along the southern boundaries of Patangata No. 3 and the Otane Block to the south-east corner of the land granted to the Bishop of Wellington; thence westerly along the southern boundary of the aforesaid land to the southern boundary of Sebastopol No. 3 Paddock; thence westerly along that boundary to the south-west corner of that paddock; thence northerly along the western boundaries of the aforesaid paddock and of the land granted to the Bishop of Wellington to the north-west corner of the said land; thence easterly along the northern boundary of the