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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.

Examination for Mine-managers' and Battery-superintendents Certificates.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1899.

AN examination of candidates for certificates as First- and Second-class Mine-managers and Battery-superintendents under “The Mining Act, 1898,” and First- and Second-class Mine-managers under “The Coal-mines Act, 1891,” will be held on Tuesday, the 30th January, 1900, and three following days, at places to be hereafter named. All applications, with necessary certificates, and fee of £1, must be addressed to “The Secretary of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act or Coal-mines Act, Wellington,” and must be received before the 30th December, or they will not be dealt with until the following examination. Forms of application may be obtained at Schools of Mines, Thames, Waihi, and Coromandel, also from Inspector of Mines, Westport and Dunedin.

T. H. HAMER,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads over Native Lands in the Mangatoro Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, under the authority contained in section 72 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and the amendments thereof, that the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto were, on the 11th June, 1898, surveyed and laid off over the Native lands therein mentioned, under my direction; and that, in terms of the said Act, the site of such roads shall be deemed to be roads dedicated to the public, and shall vest in Her Majesty.

SCHEDULE.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department, Napier, in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 11th day of November, 1899.

S. PERCY SMITH,
Surveyor-General.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 5 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Suburban Section 1004, District of Arahura, in the Provincial District of Westland, subject to certain exceptions or rights as appears on the face of the title to the said land. The last registered owner is Thomas Morgan, described as of Ho Ho Creek, Westland, gardener, who cannot be traced. The land is partly occupied by Mr. D. Cullen, of Three-Mile, near Hokitika, hotelkeeper, and partly by a Mr. Keogan.

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 13th day of November, 1899.

J. J. M. HAMILTON,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the Office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Donald Gunn, late of Rae’s Junction, in the Provincial District of Otago, farmer. Filed on the 2nd day of November, 1899.

Henry Carter, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, marble-polisher. Filed on the 3rd day of November, 1899.

Thomas Mansell, late of Westport, in the Provincial District of Nelson, carter. Filed on the 11th day of November, 1899.

Thomas Auld, late of Caversham, in the Provincial District of Otago, tailor. Filed on the 13th day of November, 1899.

John Gardiner, late of Taihape, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 13th day of November, 1899.

Frederick Boyce, late of Cheviot, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, bricklayer. Filed on the 13th day of November, 1899.

J. J. M. HAMILTON,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1899.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

The Newton Gospel Mission.

The Reverend Richard Wilson.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice under “The Victoria College Act, 1897,” and the Regulations made by Virtue thereof.

I HEREBY notify that, a vacancy having occurred on the Victoria College Council by the resignation of the Very Reverend Dr. Watters, one of the parliamentary representatives, an election by the parliamentary electors has been held, and

Mr. CHARLES PRENDERGAST KNIGHT, LL.D.,
of Wellington, has been duly elected to fill such vacancy.

CHAS. P. POWLES,
Returning Officer.

Wellington, 13th November, 1899.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—CHARLES FREDERICK KENNEDY, of 110, Cannon Street, London, England, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England, has this day been appointed by his Honour Joshua Strange Williams, Esq., a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” to be a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Dunedin, this 3rd day of November, 1899.

COLIN McK. GORDON,
Registrar.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th July, 1899.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1901, the period of literature will be from 1800 to 1850, and the special books will be Carlyle’s “Sartor Resartus” and Milton’s “Samson Agonistes.”

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.