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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 12

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 9th January, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Dunedin Operative Tailors’ Society Industrial Union of Workmen, registered No. 60, situated at Dunedin, 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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"The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900."—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 9th January, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Timaru Wharf Labourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 301, situated at Timaru, 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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Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th February, 1902.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

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

The Venerable Archdeacon John Palmer, B.D.
The Reverend George Albert Carver.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend James Taylor.

Baptist Church.

The Reverend R. S. Gray.
The Reverend W. Barnett.

Salvation Army.

Brigadier Nehemiah Glover.

Church of Christ.

Mr. Thomas Laurie Wilcock.

The Pilgrims of Peace.

Mr. Percival Commins.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 16 perches, more or less, being Section 61, on the Strand, Township of Okarito, in the Provincial District of Westland. The last registered owner is John Cohen, of Okarito, publican, who never uplifted his title, and cannot be traced.

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 8th day of February, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case:—

Henry James Fawcett, late of Palmerston North, in the Provincial District of Wellington, drover. Filed on the 7th day of February, 1902.

Daniel Mahoney, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, gum-digger. Filed on the 7th day of February, 1902.

John Home Scott, late of Waikouaiti, in the Provincial District of Otago, storekeeper. Filed on the 7th day of February, 1902.

Andrew Antich, late of Waikaremoana, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 7th day of February, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

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.

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.