1076 - THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 48

22693, situated in Blocks II. and III., Waimate Survey District, and Block XIV., Otaio Survey District.

Also all that area, containing 1,728 acres 2 roods 4 perches, more or less, being Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 20 of deposited Plan 397, situated in Blocks XIV. and XV., Otaio Survey District.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 19229, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged with pink.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Canterbury subject to “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 7th May, 1901.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the under-mentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Tarawahi Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing 31 acres 3 roods, more or less, being that portion of Rural Sections Nos. 98 and 154, Block XV., Christchurch Survey District, delineated on the plan lodged with Application 9011 in the Christchurch office of the Land Transfer Department, and also as delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19230, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Canterbury subject to “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 7th May, 1901.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the under-mentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Lyndon Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 4,200 acres, more or less, being original Sections Nos. 194, 195, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 288, 291, 293, 294, 333, 336, 337, and parts of Sections Nos. 192, 193, 196, 197, 286, 287, 289, 290, 292, 325, 326, 332, and 335, situated in Block IX., Waiau Survey District; as the said area is delineated upon the plan marked 19224A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with pink.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice to Local Authorities under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 11th April, 1901.

PURSUANT to section 16 of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” the Colonial Treasurer hereby gives notice that on Saturday, the 1st June, 1901, he will be prepared to consider applications from local authorities for loans under the Act.

Applications should be addressed to the Colonial Treasurer, and must be posted so as to arrive at the Treasury on or before the 31st May, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

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.

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.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 16th April, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Lyell Miners’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 86, situated at Gibbtown, 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.

Officiating Ministers for 1901.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Wesleyan Methodist Church.

The Reverend Frederick James Tylee.

This name is entered in substitution for that of the Reverend Frederick T. Tylee, previously entered, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 25th April, Notice No. 17.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.