Jan. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 45

Offices opened and closed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, 10th December, 1902.

THE following particulars of offices opened and closed are published for general information.
J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

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.

Judges appointed to try Election Petitions.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of “The Electoral Act, 1902.”

IN pursuance of “The Electoral Act, 1902,” I hereby appoint myself and His Honour Mr. Justice Conolly to be the Judges of the Election Court before whom shall be heard the election petition presented by John McEffer Shera against the return and election of Frank Lawry as member of the House of Representatives for the Parnell Electoral District.

Dated at Auckland, this 3rd day of January, 1903.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chief Justice,

Fixing Time and Place for trying Election Petitions.

IN exercise of all powers and authorities enabling us in this behalf, we, being the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand named and appointed as the Election Court to hear and try the petition presented under “The Electoral Act, 1902,” by John McEffer Shera against the return and election of Frank Lawry as member of the House of Representatives for the Parnell Electoral District, do hereby appoint and fix the Supreme Court House in the City of Auckland as the place at which, and 11 o’clock in the forenoon of Monday, the 2nd day of February, 1903, as the time when, the said petition shall be heard and tried.

Dated at Auckland, this 3rd day of January, 1903.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY, J.

Judges appointed to try Election Petitions.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of “The Electoral Act, 1902.”

IN pursuance of “The Electoral Act, 1902,” I hereby appoint myself and His Honour Mr. Justice Conolly to be the Judges of the Election Court before whom shall be heard the election petition presented by George Andrews and Samuel Finch against the return and election of George Fowlds as member of the House of Representatives for the Grey Lynn Electoral District.

Dated at Auckland, this 3rd day of January, 1903.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chief Justice.

Fixing Time and Place for trying Election Petitions.

IN exercise of all powers and authorities enabling us in this behalf, we, being the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand named and appointed as the Election Court to hear and try the petition presented under “The Electoral Act, 1902,” by George Andrews and Samuel Finch against the return and election of George Fowlds as member of the House of Representatives for the Grey Lynn Electoral District, do hereby appoint and fix the Supreme Court House in the City of Auckland as the place at which, and 11 o’clock in the forenoon of Monday, the 2nd day of February, 1903, as the time when, the said petition shall be heard and tried.

Dated at Auckland, this 3rd day of January, 1903.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY, J.