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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

Bonus No. 2.

A bonus of £250 is offered for a process of utilising the waste products of the hemp.

The first three conditions of Bonus No. 1 to apply to this also.

The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quantity of the waste products to each process as a test.

On completion of the tests the committee shall report to the Minister, and shall give the following particulars of each process: (a.) The nature of the article made. (b.) The 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.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1900.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Baptist.

Pastor James Fussell.

Church of Christ.

Mr. George Manifold.

Lutheran Church.

The Reverend John Klitscher.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 6th February, 1900.

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.

Jonathan Harris, late of Wairio, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 30th day of January, 1900.

Alexander Mason, late of Alexandra, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 30th day of January, 1900.

John Diving, late of Killomoran, Ireland, farmer. Filed on the 30th day of January, 1900.

George Blakeney, late of Sanson, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 30th day of January, 1900.

Emma Curtis, late of Te Karaka, in the Provincial District of Auckland, domestic servant. Filed on the 30th day of January, 1900.

Robert Colquhoun Morrison, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, clergyman. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1900.

George Thomas Harrison Lyne, late of Feilding, in the Provincial District of Wellington, settler. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1900.

Peter Dowd, late of Coromandel, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1900.

Peter Anderson, late of Ngapara, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1900.

William Barbour, late of Claremont, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, cook. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1900.

George Powell, late of Dunganville, in the Provincial District of Westland, gold-miner. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1900.

William Hailston, late of Riwaka, in the Provincial District of Nelson, labourer. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th January, 1900.

IN accordance with the Regulations for the Examination of Surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as published in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is hereby notified that the next examination thereunder will be held on 6th March next.

T. M. GRANT,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

Officers appointed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, 26th January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments in the Post and Telegraph Department.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

PERMANENT.

NON-PERMANENT.

TELEPHONIST.

Railway Officer.

McKechnie, James .. | Newmarket Railway | Auckland | 20 Nov., 1899.

POSTMASTERS.

| Barton, Mary | Woodleigh | Auckland | 1 Dec., 1899. |
| Begley, Thomas | Big River | Greymouth | 1 " " |
| Brown, Thomas Frederick .. | Ruakituri | Napier .. | 1 Jan., 1900. |
| Goulter, Arthur James Bertram | Otaua | Auckland | 1 Dec., 1899. |
| Hagger, Frederick James | Waiharara | " | 1 " " |
| McKail, Henrietta .. | Otau | " | 1 Jan., 1900. |
| Rutherford, James | Hindon | Dunedin | 1 Oct., 1899. |
| Steel, James | Kennedy’s Bay | Auckland | 1 Jan., 1900. |
| Underwood, William | Huarau .. | " | 1 Dec., 1899. |