APRIL 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 835

Rules under “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882.”

BY virtue of the powers vested in us, the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, by law, it is ordered by us that the following rules under “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882,” shall come into operation at once, namely:—

1. Rule 11 of the rules published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 26th July, 1900, shall be amended as follows: In subsection 4 the words “and torts” shall be struck out, and in subsection 7 the words “and torts” shall be added to the words “criminal law.”

2. Whenever the words “and torts” occur in Rules 1 and 2, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th April, 1901, the same shall be deleted.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of April, 1902.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS.
J. E. DENNISTON.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.
W. B. EDWARDS.
THEO. COOPER.

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.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 27th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Lyttelton Maritime and Wharf Labourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 273, situated at Lyttelton, 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.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Otago Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that, the leases of the under-mentioned lands having been forfeited by resolutions of the Otago Land Board, the said lands have reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Lands in Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th April, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that, the leases and licenses of the undermentioned Crown lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.