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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

Notification of Settlement of Claims for Compensation under
"The Mining Act, 1898."

Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th August, 1901.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 240th section of
"The Mining Act, 1898," it is hereby notified that the
claims for compensation enumerated in the Schedule hereto,
in respect to a Proclamation issued under the hand of His
Excellency the Governor and the Public Seal of the Colony
on the 16th day of July, 1900, declaring the Waikaka River,
with its tributaries, in the Land District of Southland, to be
watercourses into which tailings, &c., may be discharged,
have been settled, and all further claims and remedies in
respect of the said Proclamation are barred, as provided by
the said Act.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.

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.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 28th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Waimate Branch of the New Zealand Workers' Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 65, situated at Waimate, 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.

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Result of Election of Trustees of a Land-drainage District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1901.

THE following result of the election of Trustees of the Aorangi Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of "The Land Drainage Act, 1893."

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Aorangi Drainage District, County of Oroua:
George Dear.
Charles Edmund Tattersall.

Crown Lands Notices.

Land in Kapuatohe Hamlet, Canterbury, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 25th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection, on lease in perpetuity, as workmen's homes allotments, at this office, on Tuesday, the 15th October, 1901, under the provisions of "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900."
If more than one application is received for the same allotment on the same day the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.—COUNTY OF SELWYN.

Kapuatohe Hamlet.—First-class Land.

SMALL FARM OF 12 ACRES FOR DISPOSAL ON LEASE IN PERPETUITY.

7 | VII. | 12 0 0 | 2 5 0 | { 13 10 0
| *9 15 0

• Interest and sinking fund on building valued at £250, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £9 15s. Total half-yearly payment, £23 5s.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.