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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

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.

Trinity College, Dublin.

Education Department,
Wellington, 31st July, 1900.

THE following notification, received from Trinity College, Dublin, is published for general information.

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.

Arts Studies.

THE University of Dublin is prepared to recognise the arts studies of the following colonial and Indian universities, and such others as the Board and Council may from time to time direct to be added to the list: The Universities of Adelaide, Allahabad, Bombay, Calcutta, Cape of Good Hope, Madras, Melbourne, McGill (Montreal), New Brunswick, New Zealand, Punjab, Sydney, Tasmania, Toronto.

Any student producing the proper certificates that he has passed two years in arts studies at such universities, or has passed the examinations belonging to that period, will be entitled to put his name on the College books as a senior freshman, a student with one year’s credit; with this reservation: that, if the course of arts which he has pursued does not include all the subjects of the junior freshman year, the Senior Lecturer may require him to qualify by examination in the omitted subject or subjects within one month after his name has been entered on the books.

Furthermore, the Senior Lecturer was authorised by the Board, upon due inquiry, to admit students who have passed the matriculation examination of the University of Cape Colony without further examination.

Medical Studies.

The Board, on the recommendation of the Medical School Committee, have adopted the following resolutions (13th January, 1900):—

“That, in medical schools recognised by the University of Dublin, two consecutive anni medici, taken at any period during the four years of the medical curriculum, be recognised as qualifying for admission to the examinations of the School of Physic.”

“The medical schools which the Board and the School of Physic are now prepared to recognise are,—
“In India—Madras, Bombay, Lahore, Calcutta.
“In Australia—Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide.
“In Ceylon—Colombo.
“In New Zealand—Otago.
“In Canada—Montreal (McGill), Toronto.
“In Tasmania—Hobart.”

11th April, 1900.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of July, 1900. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c.
  † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Heavy rain early part of month, and generally showery up to 19th; the maximum rainfall recorded on 2nd, 3·05 in.; generally cold weather and frosty nights during latter part; winds variable. Maximum temperature in shade 61°, minimum 34°; mean temperature of dew-point, 38·3°; mean humidity, 71; frequent fogs, and snow on hills.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th August, 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 in titled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Robert Winchester Jackson.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.