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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

Inangahua Dairy Factory Company (Limited) in Default.—
Notice No. 821.

In the matter of “The Dairy Industry Act, 1898”; and in
the matter of a certain memorandum of mortgage bearing
date the 21st July, 1900, from the Inangahua Dairy Com-
pany (Limited) to the Crown, No. 5507, Vol. xxii., folio
290, Nelson District, and of a collateral mortgage of even
date made between the said parties.

PURSUANT to section 46 of the above-mentioned Act,
notice is hereby given that the above-mentioned
Inangahua Dairy Factory Company (Limited) is in default
in the payment of certain half-yearly and other payments
payable under the said Act and the said mortgages, as more
particularly appears by the demand made upon the said
company, and that the floating charge created under the
provisions of the said Act has become a fixed charge.
Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of October, 1903.

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 re-
   quirements.

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 con-
   tinuously 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.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—FREDERICK NORMAN HOWARD ATKYNS, Esq.,
of Echuca, Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court
of Victoria, has this day been appointed by His Honour the
Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The
Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the
purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affi-
davits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of October, 1903.

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

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 31.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 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:—

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Tobia Dahdah.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Robert Mitchell.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the
month of September 1903. Altitude above the sea,
140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c.
  † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—A fairly fine month, the rainfall being slightly
above the average; maximum fall registered on 8th, 1·25 in.
Prevailing wind, south. Maximum temperature in shade,
63·5°; minimum, 33°. Mean temperature of dew-point,
39·9°; mean humidity, 64°.

A. H. GORE,
Acting Observer.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of
“The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken
out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in
the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election
to administer the several intestate estates of the persons
deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far
as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross
properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

David Sheddan, or David Robert Sheddan, late of Wai-
kaka Valley, Gore, in the Provincial District of Otago,
farmers. Filed on the 19th day of September, 1903.

Horace Edwin Collett, late of Auckland, in the Provincial
District of Auckland, stock inspector. Filed on the 2nd
day of October, 1903.

George Hutchison, late of Tarewa, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Hawke’s Bay, bushfeller. Filed on the 2nd day of
October, 1903.

John McKenzie, late of Omaranui, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Hawke’s Bay, labourer. Filed on the 2nd day of
October, 1903.

John Husband, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury, carpenter. Filed on the 6th day
of October, 1903.

Frederick Russell Clark, late of Parakao, Whangarei, in
the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on
the 6th day of October, 1903.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.