May 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1175

Waitara West Road District, County of Taranaki :
William Brown.
Henry Old.
Stephen Turnbull.
Robert Thomas.
Thomas Western.

Waiwakaiho Road District, County of Taranaki :
Charles Alfred Ansford.
Robert Bielby.
William Bocock.
Henry Yates Lethbridge.
Francis William Matthews.

Okato Road District, County of Taranaki :
Charles Andrews.
William H. Andrews.
William Billing.
John Carey.

Manganui Road District, County of Stratford :
Peter Bottin.
Charles Arnold Jones.
William Hathaway.
Joseph Mackay.
Samuel Milne Porritt.
Neil Randrup.
Frederick Edward Taylor.

Spring Creek Road District, County of Marlborough :
Joseph Henry Redwood.
William Murray.
James Gane.
William Gifford.
Thomas Reid Dodson.
George Thomas Cheesman.

Upper Montere Road District, County of Waimea :
John Diedrich Beuke.
William Wilkens.
William Drögemüller.
Otto Bensemann.
George Bensemann.
Charles F. Muntz.

Suburban North Road District, County of Waimea :
David Barnett.
Arthur Dodson.
Adolph G. Dencker.
William Gill.
Thomas Small.
Henry Wastney.

Dovedale Road District, County of Waimea :
William Best.
Hugh Kenyon.
Walter Thorn.
Joseph Thorn.
Edwin James Win.
Noble Win.

Mount Peel Road District, County of Geraldine :
George James Dennistoun.
Robert Thew.
Oliver Scott Thomson.
Bernard E. H. Tripp.
John Arthur Stanley Wait.

Temuka Road District, County of Geraldine :
John Airy.
Alexander Bissett.
Peter Coira.
John Maze.
John Talbot.

Waipara Road District, County of Ashley :
Sir George Hugh Charles Clifford, Bart.
Michael John Burke.
John Cameron.
Robert Adam Forrester.
Donald Macdonald.

Mandeville and Rangiora Road District, County of Ashley :
Gavin Dalziel.
Frederick Horrell.
Charles Leech.
Joseph Stalker.
James Stevenson.

Lake Coleridge Road District, County of Selwyn :
Thomas A. Phillips.
George Gerard.
John Murchison.
Wilfrid Hall.

South Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn :
Arthur Heneage Burkett.
George Gray.
David McMillan, jun.
Thomas Brown.
James Langdale.

Springs Road District, County of Selwyn :
Henry Kimber.
John Marshall.
Frederick Charles Murray.
Thomas Quayle.
John Wolfe.

Upper Waimakariri Road District, County of Selwyn :
J. S. Sim.
Thomas Douglas.
D. Manson.
John McKenzie.

Upper Ashburton Road District, County of Ashburton :
Lagmhor Ward—
G. A. McLean Buckley.
Westerfield Ward—
Charles John Harper.
Ashburton Forks Ward—
Edward Herring.
Winchmore Ward—
Matthew Stitt.
Allenton Ward—
Joshua Tucker.
Dromore Ward—
Ronald Campbell.

Mount Somers Road District, County of Ashburton :
John Andrew Carney.
William Taylor Chapman.
James Harrison.
Edward Herring.
William Hitchell.

South Rakaia Road District, County of Ashburton :
James Copland.
David Gordon Holmes.
Henry James Harrison.
John Lambie.
Thomas Morland.

Balmoral Road District, County of Bruce :
Hillend Subdivision—
John M. Begg.
John Miller.
Thomas A. Johnstone.
Waitahuna West Subdivision—
James Smith.
John Martin Smith.
William Smith.

Inch Clutha River and Road District, County of Bruce :
George Anderson.
Joseph Mosley.
John Smith.
George McDonald.
James Bell.
William Weir.

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