860
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 22

Notifying Land in the Taranaki Land District subject to
“ The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 19th March, 1903.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “ The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being parts of the land known as the Spotswood Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
SPOTSWOOD SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing in the aggregate 306 acres 3 roods 25 perches, more or less, being (a) 294 acres 1 rood 25 perches, more or less, contained in Sections 1, 2, and 72, Omata Survey District, and Section 5 and parts of Sections 6, 13, 774, and 774A, Grey Survey District; and (b) being 12 acres 2 roods, more or less, part of Barrett’s Reserve, adjoining the land above described, and situated in the said Grey Survey District: as the said area is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 19284, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged with red.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in the Otago Land District subject to “ The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners.
Wellington, 19th March, 1903.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “ The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the St. Helen’s Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
ST. HELEN’S SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing 537 acres 2 roods 28 perches, more or less, being part of Sections Nos 1, 2, and 4, Block XIV., and part of Section No. 6, Block XV., Oamaru Survey District: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19285, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged with red.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in the Canterbury Land District subject to
“ The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 19th March, 1903.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “ The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land (being the land known as the Mead Settlement), which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
MEAD SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing 5,992 acres and 22 perches, more or less, being Rural Sections 31703, 33576, 33577, 33579, 14707, 14727, 14728, 21189, 21190, 22969, 22970, 23190, 23191, 23192, 23193, 23194, 23445, 23446, 23447, 24124, 24803, 25816, 25817, 25818, 26945, 26946, 26948, 28392, 28617, 28618, 28619, 28905, 28906, 28907, 31063, 31064, 31065, 31066, 31073, 32596, 33570, 33572, 34456, 34635, 34636, 37015, 37016, 37017, 37018, and Reserve 2662; Rural Sections 14708, 14709, 14710, 14711, 14712, 14713, 14714, 14715, 14724, 14725, 14726, 18157, 18158, 18165, 21186, 21187, 21188, 23444, 23448, 23449, 23519, 24123, 24800, 24802, 24804, 25810, 25811, 25812, 25813, 25814, 25815, 26945, 26946, 26948, 26949, 26950, 28861, 28910, 28986, 28996, 29494, 30612, 31067, 31068, 31069, 31070, 33573, 34452, 34453, 34461, and part of Reserve 2661; and Rural Sections 23520, 24795, 24796, 24797, 24798, 24799, 28908, 28909, 31071, 31072, 37019, 37020, and 28942; all the aforesaid land being situated in Blocks IX., X., XIII., and XIV., Selwyn Survey District, and in Blocks VII. and IX., Hall Survey District: as the said area is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 19268, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged with red.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice to Imprestees under “ The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 25th February, 1903.

EVERY officer holding advances of public money is hereby required to pay to the Public Account, at the nearest branch of the Bank of New Zealand, the unexpended balance in his hand on or before Tuesday, the 31st March proximo, and forthwith to transmit to the Treasury at Wellington the bank receipt for such repayment, together with an account of his expenditure to the same date, as required by clause 4 of the Treasury Regulations.

As respects disbursements which officers may require to make immediately after the close of the financial year, requisitions for the amount required are to be made in such time as to enable them to reach Wellington not later than the 14th March, so that the requisite funds may be placed at the disposal of the officer on the 1st April or as soon after as possible.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

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.

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.