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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Little Kapitea Creeks, with their tributaries, in the Provincial District of Westland, shall be watercourses into which tailings, &c., may be discharged, have been settled by agreement, as provided by the said Act.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.
BIG AND LITTLE KAPITEA CREEKS.

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.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1901.

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.

Septimus Theodore Walton, late of Feilding, in the Provincial District of Wellington, mercer. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1901.

John Phillip Milne, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, tutor. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1901.

Mary Chapman, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, cook. Filed on the 21st day of January, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 19th December, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Christchurch Shop-assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 165, situated at Christchurch, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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Crown Lands Notices.

Lands forfeited, Wellington Land District.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th January, 1901.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned land has been forfeited by resolution of the Wellington Land Board.

SCHEDULE.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Taranaki, open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 23rd January, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application on Tuesday, the 26th February, 1901, at the half-yearly rental stated. In the event of more than one application being received on the same day, the right to selection will be decided by ballot on the following day at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—STRATFORD AND PATEA COUNTIES.—
TAURAKAWA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

Rough and broken country, heavily timbered with tawai, rata, rimu, tawa, &c., with dense undergrowth. All pastoral country, the soil being poor, resting upon a formation of papa, and well watered; the streams lie mostly in gorges. The height of hills above streams is about 1,000 ft. Distant from Waitotara about fifty miles, by way of the Waitotara