SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1405

Notice to Mariners, No. 26 of 1898.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th August, 1898.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—SPENCER GULF.—PORT PIRIE ENTRANCE. Notice is hereby given that on and after the night of 1st September, 1898, No. 5 Beacon-light in the Port Pirie Creek will be altered from white to red, and will be visible from the direction of No. 6 Beacon on the north round by east to No. 4 Beacon on the south.

Chart No. 2389B, Plan 403.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 2nd August, 1898.

Notice to Mariners, No. 27 of 1898.

SEVENTEEN-MILE BLUFF, NORTH OF GREYMOUTH, WEST COAST, SOUTH ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th August, 1898.

THE Barrytown Flat Gold-mining Company (Limited) have notified that they have erected two electric arc lamps within a quarter of a mile of the Seventeen-mile Bluff, at Barrytown, near the beach. The bluff referred to is twelve miles north of Greymouth by sea. Mariners are cautioned not to mistake these lights for those at Greymouth or Cape Foulwind.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2591; “New Zealand Pilot,” Chapter ix., pages 393 to 396.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice of Intention to take Land at Petone for a Post- and Telegraph-office.

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 Post- and Telegraph-office at Petone, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Petone, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, 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.

The parcels of land required to be taken:—

All in the Land District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18318, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

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.

Appointment of Agent at Blenheim to the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1898.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

JOHN WHITE, Esq.,

has been appointed to be Agent to the Public Trustee at Blenheim from the 1st day of September, 1898.

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 185, Block IV., Aorere District, in the Provincial District of Nelson. The grantee and last registered owner is William Thompson, described as of Nelson, settler, who cannot be traced. The land is occupied by Mr. George Charles Skilton, of Rockville, Collingwood, Nelson aforesaid.

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 30th day of August, 1898.

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 36 perches, more or less, being Allotment 33 on deposited Plan No. 167 of the Township of Fitzherbert, Manawatu District, in the Provincial District of Wellington, also known as part Section 98, Block 2, Arawaru District, having a frontage to Eden Street of 90 links by a depth of 250 links. The last registered owner is Agnes Gertrude Blanchard, described as of Kumara, spinster, 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 26th day of August, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee,