July 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1571

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 30th June, 1903.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.
WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

MANGAWEKA POLICE-STATION CONTRACT.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Jensen and Morris, Taihape .. .. .. 627 10 0

Declined.
P. McGrath .. .. .. 650 0 0
P. J. McDonald .. .. .. 661 13 0
A. H. Christie .. .. .. 841 16 4

Notification of Settlement of Claims for Compensation under “The Mining Act, 1898.”

Mines Department,
Wellington, 1st July, 1903.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 240th section of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is hereby notified that the claims for compensation enumerated in the Schedule hereto, in respect to a Proclamation issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor and the Public Seal of the Colony on the 25th day of February, 1903, declaring the Hokitika River, with its tributaries, in the Land District of Westland, to be watercourses into which tailings, &c., may be discharged, have been settled, and all further claims and remedies in respect of the said Proclamation are barred, as provided by the said Act.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Street in the Town of Westvale, Auckland Land District, of a Width of 82½ ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1903.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Old Taupo Road, in the Town of Westvale, Auckland Land District, of a width of 82½ ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Importation of Swine from New Zealand into certain States of the Australian Commonwealth prohibited.—Notice No. 792.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 4th July, 1903.

THE following States have prohibited the importation of swine from New Zealand for the period stated opposite the name of each respectively:—
Queensland: Six months from 11th March, 1903.
New South Wales: Six months from 24th March, 1903.
Victoria: Till revoked.
Tasmania: One year from 8th May, 1903.
Western Australia: Till revoked.
In the case of South Australia the prohibition has expired, and notice has been received that it is not proposed to renew it.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

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.

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th July, 1903.

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:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Lawrence Thompson, M.A.

Church of Christ.
Mr. William David Murray Glaister.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 24.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1903.

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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
David Elmer Davis.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.