Nov. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2201

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 for Treatment of Auriferous Black Sand.

Mines Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th November, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £2,000 will be paid to any person who, before the 1st January, 1904, shall invent such appliances as will successfully save gold from black sands in New Zealand.

The bonus will be paid on compliance with the following conditions:—

1. The invention shall, in its main features, differ from all machinery and appliances at present in use for the saving of gold, whether coarse or fine.

2. It shall be readily transportable from place to place, and shall be capable of utilising local water for all its requirements.

3. The invention must be capable of treating not less than 30 cubic yards an hour of black sand or any coarser material up to a diameter of 4 in.; and it must be capable of treating such material profitably where there is not more than a value, in gold, of 3d. per cubic yard; not less than 80 per cent. of the gold contained in the material to be recovered by the machine.

4. No bonus to be paid until the invention has been continuously worked for not less than six months, and it shall, during that period, have treated not less than 100,000 cubic yards of material, working three shifts a day.

5. The bonus will be paid on the certificate of an officer that not less than twenty persons other than the applicant for the bonus are successfully working the invention.

6. Any person who receives the bonus shall not be allowed to take out patent rights in New Zealand for his invention.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Patea Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1901.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 21st day of October, 1901, for the election of a member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Patea, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that

FREDERICK HENRY HASELDEN

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 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.

Okato Road District, County of Taranaki :
Archibald Corbett.

Waipipi Road District, County of Manukau :
Thomas Aylward.
Alfred Martyn Barriball.
John Edward Makgill.
Alexander Muir.
John Neil.

Results of Election of Trustees of Land-drainage Districts.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1901.

THE following results of the election of Trustees of Drainage Districts have been received from the Returning Officers, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Manawatu Drainage District, County of Manawatu :
Lewis Robert Bryant.
William Knight.
Oscar Monrad.
Leonard S. O’Loughlen.
Samuel John Relf.
Samuel Sanson.
Christian Voss.

Sluggish River Drainage District, County of Manawatu :
George Kendall.
William Duncan.
James Donald.
William Amon.
G. Gerald Tolhurst.

Officiating Ministers for 1901.—Notice No. 45.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Henry Edward Newton, M.A.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Special Registration of Unregistered Births permitted by “The Registration of Births Extension Act, 1901.”

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1901.

THE attention of the public is drawn to the opportunity afforded for a limited time—i.e., twelve months from the 8th November, 1901—to persons, or the parents of persons, whose births cannot now be registered under “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875,” of effecting a special registration by application to the Registrar-General.

By section 2 of “The Registration of Births Extension Act, 1901,” the provisions of the 2nd section of “The Registration of Births Act Amendment Act, 1882,” are re-enacted, subject to modification rendered necessary by “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1892,” and extend and apply to the Act which passed on the 8th November, 1901. As changed they now stand:—

“It shall be lawful for the Registrar-General to register the birth of any child born in the colony previous to the period of two years before the date of the passing of this Act, but whose birth has not previously been registered, provided—

“(a.) That satisfactory evidence on oath, and such other proof as he may deem necessary, of the fact, place, and time of birth, and of the particulars of the parents, shall be sent to the Registrar-General within twelve months from the date of the coming into operation of this Act;

“(b.) That, on application to have such birth registered, a fee of one pound shall be paid to the Registrar-General.

“The particulars of the birth and of the nature of the evidence produced shall be entered by the Registrar-General in a separate book, which shall be kept by him for that purpose. The form in which the particulars are to be registered shall be prescribed by the Registrar-General.”

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act, the assessed value of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of November, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.