Sept. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1473

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department (Commissioner’s Office),
Wellington, 9th September, 1898.

THE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now in possession of the police at the stations named, will, unless previously claimed, be sold by public auction at the respective police-offices on Saturday, the 10th October proximo, at noon, in accordance with the police regulations :—

Auckland : Two coats, double-barrelled gun, bracelet, and sundries.

Napier : Small gold brooch, mackintosh coat, and purse.

New Plymouth : Revolver, tent, and sundries.

Wellington : Umbrella, Waterbury watch, blue overcoat, box of clothes, and sundries.

Blenheim : Saddle and stirrups, silver Geneva watch, and steel chain.

Christchurch : Silver lever hunting-watch, two metal watches, gold brooch, gold ring, gold pin, two bicycles, single-barrelled gun, and sundries.

Dunedin : Three boas, revolver, five umbrellas, and sundries.

Invercargill : Three brooches, parcel of dress-material, rug, and sundries.

J. B. TUNBRIDGE,
Commissioner of Police.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools other than Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open to Maori boys whose attendance at any school during the previous year has been similarly satisfactory. The senior scholarship is open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1897. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1897. The questions will, however, be somewhat more difficult than those set for the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 19th and 20th December, 1898.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st of October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 13th September, 1898.

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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Village - homestead Allotment, Kapara, Taranaki, open for Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 12th September, 1898.

THE under-mentioned village-homestead allotment will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 16th November, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

PATEA COUNTY. — KAPARA SURVEY DISTRICT. — MATAPOURI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

This section comprises fair pastoral land, rising up from Waitotara Valley Road towards back. It is covered with light bush. The soil is good, on papa formation.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run, Marlborough, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 15th August, 1898.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned land will be offered at auction, at the Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Wednesday, the 28th day of September, 1898, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Pastoral License.

(Under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”)

ONAMALUTU Survey District, Run No. 138: Area, 132 acres; term, twenty-one years; upset annual rent, £2. Weighted with £39 12s., value of improvements. Fair soil. About 60 acres broken, remainder undulating pastoral; well watered; accessible by road, eighteen miles from Blenheim. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. license-fee must be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the necessary declaration lodged.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Marlborough, open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 5th September, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for selection on Wednesday, the 26th October, 1898.

If more than one application be received, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT. — KAIKOURA COUNTY. — MOUNT FYFFE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

The character of the land varies from first-class bush terraces and ridges to rocky faces and shingle-slides; about 1,000 acres open, of which about 350 acres are good tussock and grass land, and the remainder steep, rocky land of very little use. Of the bush portion 1,400 acres are of such a character that it would pay for clearing and grassing; the remainder is short scrub on steep faces. A good deal of the bush is dead and partly cleared, through the operations of the sawmill, the owner of which has also sown a good deal of grass-seed, which has taken very well. The run is well watered. Altitude, 450 ft. to 5,222 ft. Distance, about nine miles from Kaikoura.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.