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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

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.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools other than Te Aute or St. Stephen's, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open to Maori boys whose attendance at any school other than Te Aute and St. Stephen's during the previous year has been similarly satisfactory. The senior scholarship is open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1897. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1897. The questions will, however, be somewhat more difficult than those set for the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 14th and 15th of December, 1903.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 9th of November, 1903.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 10th August, 1903.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—JAMES HUME DODGSON, Esq., of No. 4, Great Winchester Street, London, England, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England, has this day been appointed by His Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of September, 1903.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—ROBERT CHANCELLOR NESBITT, Esq., of No. 7, Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate, London, England, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England, has this day been appointed by His Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of September, 1903.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Rural Lands in the Hawke's Bay Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, 23rd September, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be open for sale or selection, at this office, in terms of section 136 of “The Land Act, 1892,” either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the selector, on Friday, the 20th day of November, 1903.

If more than one application is received for the same section on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £31 5s., valuation for improvements, consisting of 25 acres felled.

These sections are good undulating heavy-bush lands, of good soil, with mixed timber thereon, and well watered. Distant from Gisborne thirty-seven to forty-three miles.

Wairoa | Nuhaka N'th | 2 | IX. | 672 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 504 0 0 | 0 9 | 12 12 0 | 0 7·2 | 10 1 7

Hilly forest land, covered with tawa, rimu, kahikatea, matai, totara, rewarewa, hinau, miro, black-birch, &c.; well watered, and soil good. Altitude, from 800 ft. to 2,000 ft. Distance from Wairoa by road, twenty-eight miles.

Waipawa | Wakarara | 16 | XIII. | 975 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 609 7 6 | 0 7·5 | 15 4 8 | 0 6 | 12 3 9

Rough broken pastoral country, intersected by two deep ravines; good flat-topped ridges; soil fair, on formation of schist rock and clay; heavily timbered, principally black and red birch, with some rimu, matai, and mixed bush; well watered by permanent streams. Altitude ranges from 1,500 ft. to 2,500 ft. Distant twenty-six miles from Waipawa Railway-station by good road.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.