Aug. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1823

Andrew N. Burns (commanding No. 1 Company Masterton District High School Cadets) to be Adjutant; and William H. Jackson (rector of the Masterton District High School) to be Quartermaster.

South Canterbury Education District.
The Pleasant Point Public School Cadet Detachment.
R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

Approving and Appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the undermentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely,—

Port of New Plymouth.

Part of ground floor of a brick building situate on Sections 14 and 15, St. Aubyn Street, New Plymouth, to be known as

NEW ZEALAND EXPRESS COMPANY’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 722.]

Approving and Appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the undermentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely,—

Port of Poverty Bay.

Cellar of a stone building, roofed with iron, situate on Section 182, Peel Street, Gisborne, to be known as

SHERIDAN’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 723.]

Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1903.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made thereunder on the 25th March, 1895, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th April, 1895, the following officers, at the addresses respectively set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorised to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

St. George, Douglas, Chief Postmaster, Hokitika.
Walsh, William James, Postmaster, Bluff.

J. G. WARD,
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.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land containing 26 acres, more or less, and being the middle portion of Allotment 17 in the Parish of Matakoe, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The registered title is in the name of Herbert Buckley, described as of Thames, Settler, but nothing definite can be ascertained as to the real or supposed owner.

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 12th day of August, 1903.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act; I hereby give notice that the said land is under and by virtue of the said Act vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act; the value of the land for the purposes of section 5 of the said Act being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of August, 1903.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 495, in Market Street, in the Township of Picton and Provincial District of Marlborough.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1903.

THE Ruahine Lodge, No. 28, situated at Dannevirke, is registered as a branch of the District Grand Lodge of the North Island of New Zealand of the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 19th day of August, 1903.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.