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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant the Right Honourable James Ogilvie-Grant, Earl of Seafield. Date of resignation, 25th January, 1899.

Heretaunga Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Daniel Dee Hyde. Date of resignation, 14th January, 1899.

Invercargill City Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Duncan Campbell McKenzie. Date of resignation, 1st December, 1898.

No. 1 Company, New Zealand Native Rifle Volunteers (Auckland).
Surgeon-Captain William Finlay. Date of resignation, 30th January, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through Mohakatino-Parininihi No. 2 Block, Mimi Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 70 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, in December, 1894, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 18th July, 1894.

SCHEDULE.
PART OF MOKAU ROAD.

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at New Plymouth, in the Taranaki Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 8th day of February, 1899.
JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice as to Day for Closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” and of all other powers and authorities me hereto enabling, and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the Conference of delegates of all the local authorities comprised in the district constituted for the purposes of that Act by the Boroughs of the City of Christchurch, St. Albans, Sydenham, Linwood, Woolston, Sumner, New Brighton, and Lyttelton (being all the boroughs or town districts any part of any one of which is situate within a mile of any part of another), I, William Hall-Jones, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, hereby appoint Thursday to be the day on which all shops in the said district shall be closed as provided by that Act.

Dated this 14th day of February, 1899.
WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

Notice as to Day for Closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” and of all other powers and authorities me hereto enabling, and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the Conference of delegates of all the local authorities comprised in the district constituted for the purposes of that Act by the Boroughs of Invercargill, East Invercargill, North Invercargill, South Invercargill, Avenal, and Gladstone (being all the boroughs or town districts any part of any one of which is situate within a mile of any part of another), I, William Hall-Jones, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, hereby appoint Wednesday to be the day on which all shops in the said district shall be closed as provided by that Act.

Dated this 15th day of February, 1899.
WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour,

Notice as to Day for closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the local authorities respectively mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto have duly notified to me that the days upon which the shops in their respective districts shall be closed, pursuant to the provisions of “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” are the days set opposite their respective names in the second column of the said Schedule: Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the said Act, I, William Hall-Jones, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint that the said respective days shall be the days upon which all shops within the said respective districts shall be closed.

SCHEDULE.

Devonport .. .. .. Wednesday.
Kumara .. .. .. "
Otautau .. .. .. "
Rotorua .. .. .. "
Arowhenua .. .. .. Thursday.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

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.

Bonus on Mineral Oil produced from Shale obtained in New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus will be paid for the production of mineral oil under the following conditions:—

1. A bonus of 1s. per gallon (£5,000) will be paid on the first 100,000 gallons of mineral oil produced from shale obtained in the Colony of New Zealand, the oil to be of a quality approved of by Government, and to be sold at a price not exceeding 1s. a gallon at any port of shipment in the colony.

2. Notice of intention to claim the aforesaid bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1899.

3. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1900.

4. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions to be the recipient of the bonus.

5. The other conditions—as to quantity, priority, quality, and value—to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Government.

J. CARROLL.

Result of Road Board Election.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1899.

THE following notice of the election of a member of a Road Board has been received at this office, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Cambridge Road Board, County of Waikato;
John May,