Jul 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1305

Auckland Industrial School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 29th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Auckland Industrial School, lately maintained at Beach House, St. George’s Bay Road, Auckland, is now maintained at Mount Albert, Auckland, in premises situated in the New North Road, and that the use of the said Beach House for industrial-school purposes is now discontinued.

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

As to Government Officers acting as Directors of Companies.

In Cabinet, 8th June, 1900.

OFFICERS not permitted to accept position of director of company.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Secretary.

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.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 21.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Edgar Ward.

The Reverend Thomas Eykyn.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

TENDERS FOR THE SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF TELEGRAPH ARMS.

THE Electric Telegraph Commissioner is prepared to receive separate Tenders until the 23rd July, 1900, for the SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF TELEGRAPH ARMS, as under:—

15,000 (fifteen thousand) arms, 2 ft. 3 in. long.

10,000 (ten thousand) arms, 4 ft. 6 in. long.

5,000 (five thousand) arms, 6 ft. 6 in. long.

Specifications and sample arms can be seen at the Post and Telegraph Stores, Wellington, and the Post-offices at Masterton and Palmerston North, and the Telegraph-office, Wellington.

Tenders to be addressed to the “Superintendent of Electric Lines, Wellington,” and indorsed “Tender for Telegraph Arms.”

By order.

J. K. LOGAN,
Superintendent of Electric Lines.

General Post Office, Wellington,
26th June, 1900.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1900.

THE Manakau Lodge, No. 23, situated at Manakau, is registered as a branch of the District Grand Lodge of the North Island of New Zealand of the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 2nd day of July, 1900.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 3rd July, 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.

William Mangin, late of Invercargill, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 28th day of June, 1900.

Henrietta Bryon, otherwise known as Henrietta Bryan, late of Killinchy, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, widow. Filed on the 28th day of June, 1900.

Johanna Rohan, late of Greymouth, in the Provincial District of Nelson, spinster. Filed on the 28th day of June, 1900.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Bonus on Mineral Oil produced from Shale obtained in New Zealand.—Extension of Time.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1900.

THE time for notifying intention to claim the undermentioned bonus, and for making such claim, has been extended as follows:—

Notice of intention to claim the bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1900.

The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1901.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

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.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1900.

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 (100,000 lb.) 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, 1903, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1904.

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.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.