MAY 29. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1161

Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and entitled “An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals,” shall continue in force there, and no longer.

A. W. FITZROY.

[Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, 7th March, 1902.]

New Zealand Schools of Mines.

FURTHER AMENDED SCHOLARSHIP REGULATIONS.

Mines Department,
Wellington, New Zealand, 9th May, 1902.

1. FOUR scholarships will be offered annually for competition by students attending schools of mines within the colony—one each for Otago and the west coast of the Middle Island respectively, and two for the North Island.

2. The scholarships will be granted to those candidates who comply with the conditions and obtain the highest number of marks.

3. Should the holder of a scholarship attend the University of Otago no class fees will be charged, but should he elect to attend any other institution which is affiliated to the University of New Zealand he must pay his own class fees.

4. The scholarships will be of the annual value of £50 each to successful candidates who may reside three miles or more beyond the boundaries of the Borough of Dunedin or of the borough in which the affiliated institution is situated, and of £30 to successful candidates who reside within the boundaries of any such borough, or within three miles thereof.

5. The scholarships will be tenable for three years, or for such other period less than three years as may at the discretion of the Minister appear to be necessary.

6. The scholarships will be open to all students as aforesaid who are not less than eighteen years of age on the day appointed for receiving applications, as stated in regulation 10, and who shall have attended regularly at any school of mines within the colony for not less than two years, and attended at least 80 per cent. of the lectures in each subject of the examination course immediately preceding the examination.

7. The examinations will be held in the month of December in each year, on days which will be duly announced.

8. The examinations will be conducted in writing, and will embrace the following subjects:—

(a.) Theoretical chemistry.
(b.) Practical chemistry.
(c.) Metallurgy of gold and silver.
(d.) Mining.
(e.) Ventilation of mines.
(f.) General and mining geology.
(g.) Land and mine surveying.
(h.) Drawing.
(i.) Mathematics.

9. No scholarship shall be awarded to any candidate who does not obtain 75 per cent. of the marks in each subject.

10. Applications from candidates, accompanied by a fee of ten shillings, must reach the Mines Department at Wellington not later than the 1st November in each year, accompanied by the certificate of the director that the student has attended the necessary number of lectures in each subject at the school for two years.

11. Candidates must present themselves for examination on the day fixed, as provided in regulation No. 7.

12. The examination papers will be prepared by the examiners of the schools of mines.

13. The Minister of Mines retains to himself the right of cancelling any scholarship should the holder attend irregularly or be reported for idleness or bad conduct.

JAS. 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.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

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.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for Plans for Cowshed.—Notice No. 703.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 21st May, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that a first prize of twenty guineas and a second prize of ten guineas are offered by the Department for the best plan, with complete specification, of a cowshed suitable to house fifty cows, with fodder-sheds and dairy; also a first prize of seven guineas and a second prize of three guineas for the best plan and specification of a silo for the same number of cows: all plans and specifications, whether awarded a prize or not, to become the property of the Government.

Packages containing plans and specifications entered for these competitions should be addressed to the Secretary for Agriculture, Wellington, and marked outside “Cowshed Competition” or “Silo Competition,” as the case may be, and forwarded so as to reach him by the 31st August, 1902. The plans must be signed with a nom de plume, and must bear no indication as to the competitor’s name; the competitor’s signature and nom de plume must, however, be forwarded in a sealed envelope in the same package with the plans.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

“Conscience Money” received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th May, 1902.

THE Colonial Treasurer directs me to acknowledge the receipt, through the Collector, H.M. Customs, Auckland, of £1, enclosed with a slip of paper containing the words, “Unpaid duty” only.

JAS. B. HEYWOOD,
Receiver-General.