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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

Deceased Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve that the name of the late

Captain DANIEL CAMERON,
(Wellington) Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, be erased from the New Zealand Army List, as from 9th September, 1902.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1902.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

INANGAHUA BRIDGE CONTRACT, REEFTON-INANGAHUA RAILWAY.

Accepted.

J. Fitzgerald, Greymouth .. .. .. 6,394 10 0

Declined.

Griffiths and Martin, Westport .. .. 7,355 0 0
Sutherland and Son, Dunedin .. .. 7,409 9 10
Mace and Nicholson, Wellington .. .. 8,193 0 0

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1902.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

KOKATAHI ROAD BRIDGE CONTRACT, WESTLAND COUNTY.

Accepted.

J. Fitzgerald, Greymouth .. .. .. 5,364 3 7

Declined.

A. McKay, Greymouth .. .. .. 6,044 9 7
M. O’Connor, Wellington .. .. .. 6,386 2 6
Mace and Nicholson, Wellington .. .. 6,996 2 0

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Eketa-huna.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 30th September, 1902.

THE following special order, made by the Ekatahuna County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

J. G. WARD,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.

EKETAHUNA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in them in that behalf by “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Ekatahuna County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £75, authorised to be raised by the Ekatahuna County Council under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for building a bridge, road-formation, and culverts between the Ekatahuna-Tinui Road and the north-west corner of Section 2, Block X., Mangaone Survey District, the said Ekatahuna County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 4d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the Makakahi Road South and Von Reden’s Bridge Special-rating District, comprising Sections 43, Block VI., 44, 1 of Section 1, 45, and 2 of Block X., all in the Mangaone Survey District; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each and every year during a period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off: the interest and other charges on the loan to be paid at the rate of 3½ per centum per annum: the cost of raising the loan and the first year’s interest to be paid out of the loan.

I hereby certify that the above special order was made by resolution at a special meeting of the Council held on the 8th August, 1902, and confirmed at a special meeting held on the 13th September, 1902.

F. C. TURNOR,
Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Ekatahuna was impressed hereon by Francis Colison Turnor, Chairman of the Ekatahuna County Council, in my presence.

R. J. McLEAN,
County Clerk.

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.