Mar. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 811

German.—The passages for translation will be taken mainly from standard authors, and in other respects the examination will proceed on the same lines as in French.

English Composition.—Candidates will be tested by précis-writing as well as by an essay. The standard of positive merit will be looked for in logical arrangement of thought, and in accuracy and propriety of expression, but large deductions of marks will be made for faults of writing and spelling.

(Candidates are also warned that, for similar faults in the use of the English language, similar deductions will be made from the marks obtained in other subjects.)

Geometrical Drawing.—Practical plane geometry; the construction of scales; and the elements of solid geometry, and of simple orthographic projection. Great importance will be attached to neatness and exactness of drawing.

Geography.—Simple questions in descriptive and general geography.

English History.—The general paper in this subject will be confined to events subsequent to the Norman Conquest. It will test whether the candidates are accurately acquainted with the facts of English history, and also possess an intelligent knowledge of the meaning of the facts. The paper on the special period will be confined to distinctly modern history. It will require from the candidates more minute knowledge than the general paper. The special period will be, for 1903: From 1783 to 1837.

Natural Science Subjects.—The standard of examination in these subjects will be such as may be reasonably expected from the education given at schools possessing appliances for practical instruction, such as a laboratory, &c. A considerable portion of the marks will be given for proficiency shown in the practical part of the examination. A knowledge of the metric system will be expected.

Chemistry.—The laws of chemical combination and decomposition, and the preparation, classification, and properties of the principal metallic and non-metallic elements, and of such of their compounds as are treated of in inorganic chemistry. In the practical part of the examination only the more ordinary apparatus and the less dangerous reagents will be supplied, and no candidate will be allowed to bring his own apparatus or reagents.

Heat.—The elementary portion of the subject.

Physics.—The elementary properties of electricity, magnetism, light, and sound.

Physiography—i.e., physical geography.

Geology.—Chiefly economic, including the recognition of the more familiar minerals and rocks, and their properties and uses.

Botany.—The elementary parts of vegetable morphology, histology, and physiology, and the principles of a natural system of classification as illustrated by the more important British natural orders. Candidates will be required to describe plants in technical language.

(Questions will not be set on vegetable palæontology or on the geographical distribution of plants.)

Resignation of President of Council under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” accepted.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 16th March, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

WILLIAM PATTISON JAMES, Esq., of Masterton,
of the office of President of the Te Ikaroa District Maori Land Council, under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

President of Council under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” appointed.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 16th March, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GILBERT MAIR, Esq., N.Z.C., of Wellington,
to the office of President of the Te Ikaroa District Maori Land Council, under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” vice William Pattison James, Esq., resigned.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Members of Council under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” appointed.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 16th March, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,”

WILLIAM DUNCAN, Esq., of Auckland, and
HENARE KAIHAU, M.H.R., of Waiuku,

to be members of the Waikato District Maori Land Council.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Certain Presidents of Maori Land Councils authorised to exercise all Powers of Judges of Native Land Court or of the Native Appellate Court.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 16th March, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise, under the provisions of section 6 of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its amendments, that—

GEORGE THOMAS WILKINSON, Esq., of Otorohanga, President of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council, and
GILBERT MAIR, Esq., N.Z.C., of Wellington, President of Te Ikaroa District Maori Land Council,

shall possess and may exercise all the powers and authorities of Judges of the Native Land Court or of the Native Appellate Court.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Notifying Time and Place appointed for Holding of General Conference of Delegates under the Provisions of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 18th March, 1903.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Friday, the 17th day of April, 1903, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and the Native meetinghouse at Ohinemutu (Rotorua) known as Tamatekapua, as the time and place for holding the general conference of delegates under the provisions of section 29 of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

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.