Nov. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2089

(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.

Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical Authority over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1897.

THE attention of the persons or person within the Colony of New Zealand in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in the Schedule B annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” and of all other persons concerned, is directed to the 11th section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General, in the month of December in every year, a correct list of the Officiating Ministers within the meaning of “The Marriage Act, 1880,” of each of the said religious bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above referred to:—
The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Wesleyan Methodist Society.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies named above, the name of the Officiating Minister of any congregation of such religious body may be certified to by two recognised office-bearers thereof.

A Minister of religion not connected with any of the aforesaid bodies must send to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year a certificate signed—
(a.) By the recognised head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he ministers, or
(b.) By two duly-recognised Ministers of such religious body, or
(c.) By ten adult members thereof, who shall append to their signatures their description as being such members, declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Minister, the said signatures being attested by some person who shall verify them as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to be by a solemn declaration made under “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882,” signed by such person and appended to the certificate.

Neglect in sending the certificate will deprive the Minister of his status as an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.

N.B.—It is requested that the Christian names and the addresses of the several Ministers may be specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

B

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 50 acres, more or less, being Allotment 308, Parish of Te Rapa, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The land was Crown-granted in 1867 to George Anderson, described as being a private in the 3rd Regiment of Waikato Militia. Also,

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 50 acres, more or less, being Allotment 311, Parish of Te Rapa, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The land was Crown-granted in 1867 to Francis McCleve, described as being a private in the 3rd Regiment of Waikato Militia.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owners of either of the above-described lands are, and believes that such owners respectively are not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owners respectively, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee their titles respectively to the lands respectively specified in this notice; and, if such owners do not, within the time limited, so establish their or either of their titles, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” in respect of both the said parcels of land or such one of them as to which the owner shall not appear.

Dated this 15th day of November, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Crown Lands Notices.

Accommodation and Stock Reserve, Omihi Valley, Canterbury, open for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 15th November, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the lease of the under-mentioned reserve will be received up to noon on Wednesday, 29th December, subject to the conditions hereinafter specified.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIKARI SURVEY DISTRICT.

This reserve is situated on the Omihi Valley Road leading to Cheviot, about a quarter of a mile north-east of Reece’s Road, and six miles from Waipara Railway-station.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

Every tender must be enclosed in a sealed envelope, addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and marked “Tender for Omihi Stock Reserve,” and must be accompanied by a post-office order, bank draft, or cheque, marked “Correct for fourteen days” by the bank on which it is drawn, for the amount of six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease-fee.

The lessee shall, at his own cost, within two months after the acceptance of his tender, enclose the area, and subdivide the same into three approved paddocks by means of strong legal cattle- and sheep-proof fences.

The lessee shall take in, and provide approved accommodation for, all travelling stock, charging therefor per night at the rate of 2d. per head for horses and cattle, and ½d. per head for sheep.

The lease will be subject to a condition that no licensed publichouse or auction sales will be permitted upon the land.

A clause will be inserted in the lease providing that, in the event of the reserve being again offered for lease at the expiration of the term of fourteen years, such new lease will be granted subject to payment by the incoming lessee of valuation for improvements effected upon the reserve.

The lease will also be subject to the usual covenants and conditions affecting Crown leases.

Further particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.