APRIL 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 791

Prohibition of Importation of Swine from New Zealand to Queensland renewed—Notice No. 693.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 27th March, 1902.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Government of Queensland has extended for a period of six months from the 5th instant the prohibition of the importation of any swine, or carcase of swine, from New Zealand, or from any other place by any ship which has called at any port in New Zealand.

N.B.—The term “carcase,” as used herein, includes part of a carcase, also the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal, or other part of an animal, separately or otherwise, or any portion thereof.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Notice to Mariners No. 22 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th March, 1902.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.

Cape Otway.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 1st June, 1898, pages 6 and 53, mariners and others are hereby notified that the flashing white light exhibited from the lighthouse at Cape Otway shows all round the horizon.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 22nd February, 1902.

Port of Port Phillip.—Submarine Mining in the Vicinity of Swanspit Buoy Light.

It is hereby notified for general information that an additional Port Regulation is in process of being issued, providing that, for the purpose of permitting practice in submarine mining, vessels shall not, on and from the 20th day of March, 1902, until and including the 20th day of April, 1902, be navigated or anchored in the waters to the northward and westward of the No. 3 (Swanspit) buoy, West Channel, within an area bounded by a supposed line running south-easterly from Swan beacon to No. 3 (Swanspit) buoy; thence northerly to small black can buoy moored east by north five cables from the north-east end of Swan Island; thence westerly to the outer pile which marks the entrance to the channel leading to Swan Island jetty; thence due south to Swan Point; and from thence southerly along the shore to the starting-point: and also that on and from the 25th day of March, 1902, until and including the 1st day of April, 1902, vessels shall not be anchored in the waters within an area bounded by a supposed line from beacon on Duck Island to Swan Island jetty; thence to small black can buoy moored five cables east by north from north-east end of Swan Island; thence to starting-point.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 3rd March, 1902.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, West Taieri Land-drainage Board.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th March, 1902.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the West Taieri Land-drainage Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Treasurer.

WEST TAIERI DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

RESULT of poll taken at Outram, on 7th March, 1902, upon a proposal for a loan of £800, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for a term of forty-one years, at 3½ per cent. per annum, for drainage-works within the West Taieri Drainage District:—

Number of ratepayers on the roll, 39; number of votes exercisable, 78: Number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 20; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 10; number of ratepayers who voted, 14; number of ratepayers who did not vote, 25; number of votes not recorded, 48.

As the number of the votes given in favour of the proposal represents more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I therefore declare the proposal to be duly carried.

JOHN BRUCE,
Chairman, West Taieri Land-drainage Board.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads through Lands in Karioi, Maungakaretu, and Ngamatea Survey Districts, Wanganui County.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, in August, 1899, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by warrants dated the 28th June and 20th December, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Land District of Wellington: as the said areas are delineated upon the plans marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Dated this 27th day of March, 1902.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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.