SEPT. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2177

And whereas it has been made to appear to His present Majesty that the tonnage of Spanish ships as measured by the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of merchant ships of Spain materially differs from that which would be the tonnage of such ships if measured under “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, His Majesty in Council doth order that, notwithstanding the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council dated the 17th day of March, 1875, any of the ships of Spain may for all or any of the purposes of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” be remeasured in accordance with the said Act.

A. W. FITZROY.

Special Books in Languages and Literature for Certificate and Civil Service Examinations, 1906.

Education Department,
Wellington, 31st August, 1904.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Education Act, 1877,” and under “The Civil Service Examination Act, 1900,” notice is hereby given that at the examination for Class C and at the Civil Service Senior Examination of January, 1906, candidates will not be examined in the history of any period of literature. The special books of which a knowledge will be required are as follows:—

ENGLISH.—Carlyle, “Sartor Resartus”; Milton, “Samson Agonistes”; Holmes, “Professor at the Breakfast Table.”

GREEK.—Thucydides, Book VII.; Aristophanes, “The Knights.”

LATIN.—Caesar, “De Bello Gallico,” Book VII.; Horace, “Epistles,” Book I.

FRENCH.—Taine, “Voyage aux Pyrénées”; Molière, “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” “L’Avare”; Racine, “Phèdre.”

GERMAN.—Heine, “Memoiren” (Volume 5 of Heine’s sämmtliche Werke, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, 1885); Goethe, “Iphigenia auf Tauris”; Schiller, “Piccolomini.”

ITALIAN.—Manzoni, “I Promessi Sposi.”

SPANISH.—Ayala, Camprodón, and Eguilaz, “Teatro moderno español” (David Nutt, 3s. 6d.); Trueba and La Quintana, “El Cid campeador (David Nutt, 3s. 6d.).

MAORI.—No special books in Maori will be prescribed for the examination of 1906.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Education.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the County of Opotiki, Borough of Ashburton, the Road Districts of Waipu North, One-Tree Hill, and Mount Wellington, and the Town District of Wyndham.—Notice No. 897.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 6th September, 1904.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local governing bodies have by special order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

Local Bodies. Plants.
Opotiki County Council Ragwort.
Ashburton Borough Council Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, ragwort, fennel, wild turnip, dock, burdock, ox-eye daisy, hemlock, and the stemless, Scotch, woolly-headed, and star thistles.
Waipu North Road Board Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, and ragwort or ragweed.
One-Tree Hill Road Board Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, and ragwort or ragweed.
Mount Wellington Road Board Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, ragwort or ragweed, wild turnip, ox-eye daisy, hemlock, dock, burdock, lupin, pennyroyal, St. John’s wort, tutsan, fennel, periwinkle, elderberry, and the following thistles: stemless, common plume or Scotch, woolly-headed, star, and milk.
Wyndham Town Board Broom, gorse, ragwort, dock, and wild turnip.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Bonus for Means of exterminating Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 898.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 7th September, 1904.

A BONUS of £500 is offered, on the following conditions, for a means of exterminating noxious weeds.

1. All applications for the bonus must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, and must be in his hands not later than the 1st day of November, 1904.

2. The applicants must be prepared to submit their proposed means of extermination in such manner and at such times and places as the Minister shall direct.

3. The Government shall appoint a committee under whose instructions and before whom all tests shall be carried through.

4. The following shall be the basis of the test:—

(a.) The time occupied in extermination of the weeds submitted for the trial.

(b.) Risk to stock, or otherwise, of using preparation.

(c.) The cost of the means adopted.

(d.) The results obtained from the test.

5. The committee, on completion of the test, shall report the result thereof to the Minister, with any recommendation it may deem advisable to make as to payment of bonus or part thereof, or, if no satisfactory process is submitted, may decline to recommend any payment, in which case the bonus shall not be paid to any applicant.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land containing 1 rood, more or less, and being Section numbered 553, in Hornbrook Street, in the Township of Arowhenua and Borough of Temuka, in the Provincial District of Canterbury. The registered owner is one John McCulloch, described as of Auckland, baker, and who is stated to be dead.

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 2nd day of September, 1904.

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 6th day of September, 1904.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 1 acre, more or less, and being Allotment 560, Town of Cambridge East, and Provincial District of Auckland.