Aug. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1647

Notice to Mariners No. 54 of 1901.

ROCKS REPORTED IN POVERTY BAY, OFF GISBORNE.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 13th August, 1901.

CAPTAIN POST, of the New Zealand Government steamship “Tutanekai,” reports having examined the rocks on which the s.s. “Tokomaru” and the s.s. “Tomoana” lately touched in Poverty Bay, off Gisborne. The following are the bearings (magnetic):—

TOKOMARU ROCK.
Red buoy .. .. N. 2° W. dist. 1·7 cables.
Pah Hill (trig.) .. .. N. 70° E.
Flagstaff .. .. N. 12° E.
Tuamotu Island (trig.) .. S. 75° E.
Least water, 25 ft. at low water springs.

TOMOANA ROCK.
Red buoy .. .. N. 29° W. dist. 1·9 cables.
Pah Hill .. .. N. 69° E.
Flagstaff .. .. N. 8° E.
Tuamotu Island .. S. 74° E.
Least water, 25 ft. at low water springs.

Vessels of heavy draught should not anchor to the northward of the ten-fathoms line in that part included between the green lights in line and the red lights in line, as this ground is foul with pinnacle rocks for two cables’ distance from the red buoy.

The position of each of these rocks has been temporarily marked by a small buoy.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 1663, and “New Zealand Pilot,” Chap. iii., p. 153, ed. 1891.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1901.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

KEREPEHI NATIVE SCHOOL BUILDINGS CONTRACT.

Accepted. £ s. d.
A. J. Smith .. .. .. 626 6 0

Declined.
J. Davis .. .. .. 725 2 4

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.

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.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of July, 1901. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

From Self-registering Instruments, for Twenty-four Hours previously.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous year.

NOTE.—A showery month, with some cold weather; frequent frosts; snow on 6th and 7th; hail on 7th; fog on seven days. The maximum rainfall on 21st, 1·44 in. Generally moderate winds from N.W. and S. Maximum temperature in shade, 58°; minimum, 30°. Mean temperature of dew-point, 36·2°; mean humidity, 70. Earthquake on 17th, at 8.32 p.m., very slight.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 1 acre, more or less, being Allotment 195, Section 2, Town of Opotiki, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The title is registered in the name of George Seymour, described as of Mercury Bay, bushman. The registrations disclose as follows: The land is presumably subject to a receipt of £5, paid 1st October, 1868, to George Seymour, by John Connelly, of Opotiki, and mortgage from George Seymour to Richard Laishley, solicitor, Auckland, date 24th November, 1879. The mortgage is now none in fact.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 12th day of August, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

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