Mar. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 535

MANCHESTER ROAD BOARD.

Copy of Special Order made by the Manchester Road Board. THAT this Board, under the provisions of “The Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and under and by virtue of a Warrant issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, dated the 2nd day of January, 1890, authorising the Rangitikei County Council to charge the Manchester Road Board with one-third share of cost of managing and maintaining the Onepuhi Bridge over the Rangitikei River at Onepuhi, borrow a further sum of £300 for the purpose of providing share of cost of repairing the said bridge, in accordance with the above-mentioned Warrant, and that a special rate of 1/50d. in the pound be hereby made upon the rateable value of the whole of the rateable property (Crown and Native land excepted) within the Manchester Road District for the purpose of providing interest on the above loan of £300, to be borrowed under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” such rate to be annually recurring for twenty-six years, and payable in equal half-yearly instalments on the 1st day of April and October in each year.

I hereby declare that the above special order was made by the Manchester Road Board at a meeting held on the 10th day of December, and confirmed on the 14th of January, 1898.

CHARLES BRAY,
Clerk, Manchester Road Board.

Notice respecting Native and Imported Game.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th March, 1898.

THE attention of sportsmen, game-dealers, and others is called to the provisions of “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1889,” and of “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1895,” which are now in force. A digest of the chief of such provisions is subjoined, viz.:

“THE ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1889.”

Section 4. No person shall kill, destroy, or shoot at any game or native game with anything but a shoulder-gun, and no such gun must exceed size No. 10 at muzzle, or be fitted with barrels exceeding 36 in. in length. No gun shall exceed 10 lb. in weight.

Any person offending against this provision is liable to a penalty not exceeding £10.

Section 5. No person shall sell any native game, or take or kill any native game for the purpose of sale, without previously taking out the required license.

Penalty not exceeding £20.

Section 6. No sale of native game shall take place prior to the 1st May and subsequent to the 1st August in any year.

If any person hold a license to sell game—i.e., imported game—he is not liable to pay a second fee on taking out a license to sell native game. But both licenses must be taken out if it is intended to sell both kinds of game.

“THE ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1895.”

Section 6. Section 12 of “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” is repealed. No person can now sell game, or dispose thereof for any gain or reward, unless he be the holder of a license to sell such game.

Penalty not exceeding £20.

J. CARROLL.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1898.

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 impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1900, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1901.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) 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 (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Notice under “The Victoria College Act, 1897,” and the Regulations relating thereto.

Education Department,
Wellington, 7th February, 1898.

THE first election of members of the College Council will be held on Monday, the 11th April, 1898; the poll closing at 5 o’clock p.m.

The members to be elected are,–

(a.) Three by members of the Legislature for the time being resident in, or representing electoral districts wholly or mainly within, the Wellington, Nelson, Westland, Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki Provincial Districts;

(b.) Three by persons who, being holders of a degree of any university of the United Kingdom or of any British colony, are for the time being resident within any of the said provincial districts;

(c.) Three by such persons holding certificates under section 45 of “The Education Act, 1877,” as are over the age of twenty-one years and for the time being resident within any of the said provincial districts;

(d.) Three by members of the Education Boards of the education districts wholly or partly within any of the said provincial districts.

Electoral rolls for the four classes of electors above specified will be prepared, and, for the purposes of the first election, will be closed at 5 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 28th March, 1898. Such rolls will be called respectively—(a) the “parliamentary,” (b) the “graduates’,” (c) the “teachers’,” and (d) the “Education Boards’” electoral roll.

Every candidate for election is to be nominated by one or more electors entitled to vote for his election, and the nomination is to bear the candidate’s consent thereto. Nominations will close at noon on Monday, the 4th April, 1898.

Applications for enrolment, and all notices, &c., relating to the election, are to be addressed to “The Returning Officer for the Victoria College Council Election, Education Department, Wellington,” from whom copies of the regulations and forms may be obtained. Copies of the Act are to be had from the Government Printer; price, 9d.

E. O. GIBBES,
Returning Officer.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Bregman’s Landing Road, Parish of Whangape.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road to Bregman’s Landing, Parish of Whangape, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is further given that the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Churchill, Waikato, and is there open for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.