Jan. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 165

"The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900."—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 9th January, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application
in that behalf made to me by the Timaru Wharf
Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 301,
situated at Timaru, the registration of that industrial union
will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date
hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be
commenced by a member or other person interested in or
having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to
set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside
accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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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 Allotment 134, Section 2, on
the north side of Ford Street, in the Town of Opotiki.
The grantee is one Edward Simpson, described as a
private in the 1st Regiment of Waikato Militia, who never
uplifted his title, and cannot now 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 27th day of January, 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, 28th January, 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.

John O'Connell, late of Te Kuiti, in the Provincial District
of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 25th day of January,
1902.

Martha Reader, late of Wanganui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, domestic servant. Filed on the 25th
day of January, 1902.

Frank Unkovich, late of Puni, in the Provincial District
of Auckland, gum-digger. Filed on the 25th day of January,
1902.

Robert Smith, late of Nevis, in the Provincial District of
Otago, miner. Filed on the 25th day of January, 1902.

Catherine McGuinness, late of Oakura, in the Provincial
District of Taranaki, a married woman. Filed on the 28th
day of January, 1902.

John Charles Stewart, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial
District of Otago, grocer's assistant. Filed on the 28th day
of January, 1902.

Charles Mallinder, late of Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson, settler. Filed on the 28th day of January,
1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1902.

THE Pride of Mornington Lodge, No. 14, situated at
Mornington, is registered as a branch of the Grand
Lodge of Otago and Southland District, New Zealand, of
the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society,
under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882," this 28th day of
January, 1902.

C. T. BENZONI,
Deputy Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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Tenders for Mail Steam Service to Chatham Islands.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1902.

TENDERS will be received at the Chief Post Office,
Christchurch, until noon of Wednesday, the 19th
February, 1902, for the conveyance of mails once every two
months by steamer to and from the Chatham Islands,
calling at such places, inclusive of Pitt Island, in the group
as may be determined upon by the Postmaster-General, for
two years from the 1st April, 1902, with Lyttelton or Wellington as the port of departure and Lyttelton the port of
arrival.

Tenders to be indorsed "Tenders for Chatham Islands
Mail-service," and addressed to the Chief Postmaster,
Christchurch.

Names, tonnage, and horse-power of steamers proposed
to be used to be stated.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 3.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th January, 1902.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and
intituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information:—

The Methodist Church of Australasia.
The Reverend Ernest David Patchett.
The Reverend Joseph Belton.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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.

JAMES 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.