APRIL 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 877

Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th April, 1901.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination of surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 5th March, 1896, it is hereby notified that

WILFRED MAY ATKINSON,
ARTHUR NEVILLE HARROP,
WALTER CHARLES MCALISTER,
ANDREW GRAY MUIR,
PERCY BLOMFIELD MACDONALD, and
ANDREW MURRAY ROBERTS

have been granted certificates of competency as duly authorised surveyors.

A. BARRON,
Chairman, Board of Examiners for Surveyors.

Officiating Ministers for 1901.—Notice No. 14.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th April, 1901.

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 late 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 John Awdry Julius, B.A.
The Reverend William Walmsley Sedgwick, B.A.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. William Hain.

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend G. H. Barrett.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice under “The Victoria College Act, 1897,” and the Regulations made by Virtue thereof.

I HEREBY certify that the under-mentioned persons were duly nominated for vacancies on the Council of the Victoria College; and, as the number nominated did not exceed the number of vacancies, I hereby declare the said persons to be duly elected members of the said Council, viz.:—

WILLIAM ALLAN CHAPPLE, M.D.,
as parliamentary representative;

JOSEPH FIRTH, B.A.,
as graduates’ representative;

THOMAS REID FLEMING, M.A., LL.B.,
as teachers’ representative; and

GEORGE TALBOT
as Education Boards’ representative.

CHAS. P. POWLES,
Returning Officer.

Wellington, 3rd April, 1901.

Regulations under “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882.”

BY virtue of the powers vested in us by law it is ordered by us, the Judges of the Supreme Court, that the following rules and regulations under “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882,” shall come into force on and after the 8th day of April, 1901:—

1. Candidates for the Barristers’ Law Examination shall be permitted to take the subjects prescribed for that examination in two sections, Jurisprudence and Constitutional History, Roman Law, and International Law and Conflict of Laws constituting one section, and the remaining law subjects constituting the other section; and candidates shall have the option of taking Contracts and Torts, Real and Personal Property, and Equity, or any one or more of those subjects, in the first section in place of taking them in the second section; and a candidate passing the first section shall be credited with such one or more of such last-mentioned subjects as he shall have passed in.

2. Candidates for the Solicitors’ Law Examination shall be permitted to take the subjects prescribed for that examination in two sections, Contracts and Torts, Real and Personal Property, and Equity, or any two of such subjects, con-

stituting one section, and the subjects not passed in that section constituting the other section; and a candidate passing in any two or more of the above-mentioned subjects shall be credited with a pass in such subjects.

3. The foregoing sections may be taken in any order.

4. Candidates who have already passed in one section shall not be affected by the foregoing alterations.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS.
J. E. DENNISTON.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.
W. B. EDWARDS.
THEO. COOPER.

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1901.

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

Notice of intention to claim the bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 30th June, 1901.

The claim must be made before the 31st December, 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.