JULY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1481

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Matakohe Road Board, County of Otamatea.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1901.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Matakohe Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. G. WARD.

MATAKOHE ROAD BOARD.

THE following is the result of a poll taken at the Board’s office, Matakohe, on Saturday, 12th January, 1901, upon a proposal to raise a loan of £550 for forming and metalling road from Wharf to Main Road, from Post-office to Public Hall, and from thence to Main Road at the church :—
Number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 34 ; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 4.
A majority of the votes recorded being in favour of the proposal, I therefore declare it carried.

JOSEPH OVENS,
Chairman, Matakohe Road Board.

Matakohe, 15th January, 1901.

Notice to Mariners No. 45 of 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th July, 1901.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.—PILOT-STATION, PORT ALBERT.

REFERRING to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 1st June, 1898, page 106, it is hereby notified that the Pilot-station on Snake Island will shortly be removed to Sunday Island, from where the tide signals will then be exhibited; also that when such removal takes place the fixed green light exhibited from the old lighthouse on Snake Island will be discontinued.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Department of Ports and Harbours, Port Officer.

Melbourne, 14th June, 1901.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th July, 1901.

THE following notices of the election of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Howick Township Road District, County of Manukau :
William Robinson.

Papakura Road District, County of Manukau :
William Knight.

Drury Road District, County of Manukau :
James Cossey.
James Fitzgerald.
Stephen Early Hill.
Peter Roy.
Goodwyn D. Smith.

Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn :
Frederick Benham.
Joseph Charles Evans.
Thomas Kain.
George Rutherford.
Joseph Wallace.

East Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn :
Frederick Bull.
William Lilley.
George Rutherford.
Richard Scarlett.
George Frederick Wright.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th March, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, for the Civil Service Senior Examination of January, 1902, candidates may read “The Tempest” as an alternative to “King Lear,” one of the special books already prescribed for the examination. The examination papers will contain alternative questions on these two plays, in addition to questions on the other work set,

W. C. WALKER.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Christchurch Master Bakers’ Industrial Union of Employers, registered No. 130, 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.

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.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 24th June, 1901.

LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 764,726 9 3
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 22,673 13 8
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 12,754 8 2
Government deposits .. .. .. 958,711 1 4
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 3,336,131 18 9
Bearing interest .. .. .. 3,579,576 4 10
Total average liabilities .. £8,674,573 16 0

ASSETS.
Coined gold and silver and other coined £ s. d.
metal .. .. .. 1,012,345 5 7
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. .. 79,272 19 2
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. 43,114 4 1
Balances due from other Banks .. .. 846 19 1
Landed property .. .. .. 114,841 12 1
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. 875,515 7 3
2. Colonial Government securities .. 781,977 8 1
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. .. 3,273,786 16 3
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. .. 1,602,033 18 9
   Total average assets .. .. £7,783,734 10 4

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £2,000,000. (Interest, £40,000 per six months, paid May last.)
Capital payable by shareholders, £500,000.
Reserve fund, £23,474 7s. 4d.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of July, 1901.

JAMES EMBLING, General Manager.
RICH. W. GIBBS, Accountant.