Jan. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 21

Selwyn:
Charles Albert Creery Hardy.
Ashburton:
John McLachlan.
Geraldine:
Frederick Robert Flatman.
Timaru:
William Hall-Jones.
Waitaki:
William Jukes Steward.
Oamaru:
Thomas Young Duncan.
Waihemo:
John McKenzie.
Waikouaiti:
Edmund Giblett Allen.
City of Dunedin:
John Andrew Millar.
James Frederick Arnold.
Alfred Richard Barclay.
Caversham:
Arthur Morrison.
Taieri:
Walter Charles Frederick Carnecross.
Bruce:
James Allen.
Tuapeka:
James Bennet.
Clutha:
James William Thomson.
Mataura:
Robert McNab.
Wakatipu:
William Fraser.
Wallace:
Michael Gilfedder.
Invercargill:
Josiah Alfred Hanan.
Awarua:
Joseph George Ward.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of Writs.

Call under “The Civil Service Officers’ Guarantee Act, 1893.”

Office of the Civil Service Officers’ Guarantee Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 3rd January, 1900.

IN pursuance of clause 15 of the regulations contained in
an Order in Council bearing date the 4th March, 1895,
I, James Barnes Heywood, the Chairman of the Board ap-
pointed under “The Civil Service Officers’ Guarantee Act,
1893,” do issue the following notice of a call under the said
Act:—

JAMES B. HEYWOOD,
Chairman.

Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 37.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 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 in-
tituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of
an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act
is published for general information:—

Church of Christ.
Mr. George Manifold.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st December, 1899.

IN accordance with the Regulations for the Examination
of Surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is
hereby notified that

ROBERT WILLIAM WATSON and
SIDNEY SWIRES SPRINGALL

have received certificates of competency as duly authorised
surveyors.

S. PERCY SMITH,
Chairman, Board of Examiners for Surveyors.

Bonus for the Production of Mineral Manure.—Notice No. 580.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 12th December, 1899.

THE following sum is hereby offered as a bonus for the
discovery and working within the colony of a deposit
or deposits of marketable mineral manure, viz.:—

£500 IF FOUND ON CROWN LANDS;
£250 IF FOUND ON FREEHOLD LANDS.

The following are the conditions under which the bonus is
offered and will be paid:—

1. That the raw material is easily accessible, and within
   reasonable distance of a railway or seaport.
2. That the committee appointed by the Minister for
   Agriculture to examine the deposit is satisfied that there is
   sufficient to meet all ordinary demands for five years.
3. That the manure can be disposed of at a price which
   will allow of it being remuneratively used for agricultural
   purposes.
4. That the composition of the phosphate shall average
   not less than 40 per cent. of phosphate of lime (tricalcic
   phosphate); provided, however, should a phosphate of a lower
   average composition be discovered, the committee may
   recommend that a portion of the bonus be granted.

The terms of payment will be—
One-fifth on the committee reporting favourably of the
discovery;
One-fifth on delivery of first 200 tons;
The remaining three-fifths by equal payments on de-
livery of each additional 150 tons.

Applications addressed to “The Hon. the Minister for
Agriculture, Wellington,” will be received up to and in-
cluding the 1st day of July, 1900.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister for Agriculture.

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 impuri-
ties, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following con-
ditions, 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.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phor-
mium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 535.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 13th February, 1899.

BONUS No. 1.

A BONUS of £1,750 is offered for a machine or process
for dressing New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax)
which shall be an improvement on the machines or processes