Notice by the Public Trustee under "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 1 acre, more or less, being Lot 205 of Section 2, in Ford Street, in the Town of Opotiki and Provincial District of Auckland. The land was Crown-granted to William Dunne, private in 1st Regiment of Waikato Militia, who did not uplift his title, and cannot be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

Dated this 9th day of July, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON, Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 22nd 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.

Peter Stewart, late of Alexandra, in the Provincial District of Otago, engineer. Filed on the 21st day of July, 1902.

Daniel Haggerty, late of Martinborough, in the Provincial District of Wellington, settler. Filed on the 21st day of July, 1902.

Eugene Pitavy, late of Whangamata, in the Provincial District of Auckland, miner. Filed on the 21st day of July, 1902.

Rosannah Hill, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, housewife. Filed on the 21st day of July, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON, Public Trustee.

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.

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.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Village-homestead Allotment, Otago, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, 23rd July, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotment will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” at this office, on 1902.

In the event of more than one application being received for the allotment on the same day, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

TUAPEKA COUNTY.—GLENKENICH SURVEY DISTRICT. Village-homestead Land.

Lease in Perpetuity: Rent, 4 per Cent.

Section. Block. Area. Rent per Acre. Half-yearly Rent.

24 VIII. 28 0 16 0 10'8 0 12 7

Undulating bush section of good quality; good aspect; well watered; situated about four miles from Tapanui. Valuation for improvements, £64.

D. BARRON, Commissioner of Crown Lands.