JULY 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1523

the said district does not exceed [three-fifths of the total
number of valid votes recorded thereat in the said St. Mar-
tin’s Ward. I therefore declare the said proposals rejected
in the said St. Martin’s Ward.
Dated this 20th day of June, 1902.
GILBERT HAMILTON McHAFFIE,
Chairman of the Heathcote Road Board.

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 re-
   quirements.
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 con-
   tinuously 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 specifi-
cations, 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 com-
petitor’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.

Education Board Election.

THE following persons have been re-elected unopposed
to fill the three vacancies on the Grey Education
Board:—
JOHN BYRNE,
JEREMIAH McCARTHY, and
JOSEPH PETRIE.
W. RIEMENSCHNEIDER,
Secretary.
Education Board Office,
Greymouth, 9th July, 1902.

Education Board Election.

MESSRS. THOMAS JOHN BAIGENT, WILLIAM NORRIS
FRANKLYN, and ANDREW THOMAS MAGINNITY being
the only candidates nominated, I hereby declare them duly
re-elected members of the Education Board of the District
of Nelson.
STEAD ELLIS,
Returning Officer.
Education Office, Nelson,
7th July, 1902.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1901.”—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 17th July, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to and in
exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon
me by section 20 of “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbi-
tration Amendment Act, 1901,” the registration of the
Wellington Coopers and Boxmakers’ Industrial Union of
Workers, registered No. 209, situated at Wellington, will
be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date
hereof unless within such period it is shown that such
union has not ceased to exist.
EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Election of Members of the South Canterbury Education Board.

Education Office,
Timaru, 8th July, 1902.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Acts,
1900 and 1901, it is hereby notified that
WILLIAM BARKER HOWELL, Esq., J.P.,
DANIEL McCASKILL, Esq.,
JOHN CAMPBELL, Esq.,
have been re-elected members of the Education Board of
the District of South Canterbury to fill the annual vacan-
cies. There being three vacancies and only three candidates
duly nominated, no poll was necessary.
J. H. BAMFIELD,
Returning Officer.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 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.
William Brown, late of Kumeroa, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Hawke’s Bay, blacksmith. Filed on the 12th day
of July, 1902.
Ann Kennedy, late of Wanganui, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington, widow. Filed on the 15th day of July,
1902.
J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.