June 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1261

Wailagilala Light.

Notice is hereby given that on the 10th April, 1902, the catoptric light at Wailagilala (latitude 16° 45' S., longitude 179° 6' W.) was replaced by a fourth-order white dioptric fixed light, which is visible between the magnetic bearings of N. 64° E. through N. to S. 42° W.

The height of the light is 95 ft. above high-water level.

Wm. Sutherland,
Acting Receiver-General.

Suva, 10th May, 1902.

Lighthouse on Wakaya Reef.

(Preliminary Notice.)

A new wooden structure has been erected on the south point of the Wakaya Reef.

The height of the building is 83 ft. above low-water level.

The light will be a third-order white dioptric, visible round an arc of the horizon of 230° to the southward.

It is expected that the light will be installed about 31st July, 1902, due notice of which will be given.

Wm. Sutherland,
Acting Receiver-General.

Suva, 10th May, 1902.

Notice to Mariners No. 39 of 1902.

INDIA.—WEST COAST, TRAVANCORE.—TANGACHERRI LIGHT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 9th June, 1902.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 43 of 1901, issued by this Department on the 26th June, 1901, respecting the exhibition of a dioptric group-flashing white light at Tangacherri Point, the Presidency Port Officer, Madras, now states that the notice should read “three,” in place of “two,” flashes every ten seconds, and that the light was exhibited as a triple-flashing light on the 1st April last.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Mornington.—Notice No. 709.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th June, 1902.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Mornington Borough Council has by special order declared gorse and broom to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under its jurisdiction.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington. 4th June, 1902.

THE tender of Messrs. May and McKinley, amounting to the sum of £1,373 1s. 9d., being the only one received, has been accepted for the erection of station-buildings at Seddon, on the north end of the Blenheim-Waipara Railway, and is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Instructor and Lecturer, School of Mines, Thames.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1902.

WRITTEN applications, addressed to the Under-Secretary for Mines, stating qualifications and accompanied by testimonials, will be received at this office up to Saturday, the 21st instant, for the position of Instructor and Lecturer to the School of Mines at the Thames, at a salary of £350 a year and an allowance of 10s. a day while travelling in the district. Applicants must be qualified to impart instruction upon the following subjects: Mineralogy, metallurgy of gold and silver, mining, explosives and ventilation, chemistry, elementary mechanics, assaying, land and mine surveying, laboratory practice in assaying and practical chemistry, geology.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

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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.