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1. The cost of the apparatus as it appears on the plan, and its portable cost and tear and wear.
2. The readiness with which it can be secured in any part of a tail race, and be moved from one part to another and again secured.
3. Its adaptability to the different widths and falls of tailraces used in different districts; to the varying quantities of water used either by choice or necessity for flushing the same; and to the different kinds of wash-dirt from which gold is obtained in the Province. These are also expected not to offer reproductions of machines or methods which have fallen into disuse. They can obtain information on these and other points, by application through the post to the Central Mining Association at Naseby.

If, in the opinion of the judges appointed, any plan shall appear to be worthy of adoption by the miners in this Province, the Government undertakes to furnish copies of the same to each of the Mining Associations in the Province with full instructions as to intentions of the inventors, and the payment of the bonus will then be determined in the following manner, payment being due within eight months from the date at which the copies of the plans and instructions have been issued to the various Mining Associations:—

By the fact of the apparatus being used by at least twenty-five sluicing companies in the Province, employing an average of at least five men each, for the period of six months, and the intention of the same companies to continue the use thereof; such fact and such intention being verified by the affirmation before a Warden, of the Managers or representatives of such Companies.

In the event of two or more plans being considered worthy of a trial, the Government will determine in what manner the competition shall be carried on, and the best plan of invention if he think fit, by taking out a patent.

As the bonus is only intended to stimulate inventive genius, every inventor may reap a further benefit from his invention if he think fit, by taking out a patent.

Plans and proposals intended for submission under this notice, are to be addressed to the Goldfields Secretary, Dunedin, on or before the date first above-mentioned.

D. M'KELLAR,
Goldfields Secretary.

Cromwell, 5th March, 1875.

HOLIDAYS.

THE Provincial Government Offices will not be open on the following days:—Tuesday, 22nd; Friday, 26th; Saturday, 27th; Monday 29th days of March current.

By order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Sec. to Superintendent.

PAYMENTS will be made at the Provincial Treasury every day, excepting holidays, until the end of the month.

TUESDAY, 20TH APRIL.

THE undermentioned Town Sections will be sold by Auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon, on Tuesday, the 20th day of April proximo:—

NOTICE.—Tenders will be received until the 31st of March next, for 6000 Posts and Rails which have been seized at the Hawea Forest.

Tenders to be sent to the Forest Ranger at Queenstown.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 17th February, 1875.

652 ACRES OR. 18P. IN WAIKAIA HUNDRED FOR SALE.
THURSDAY, 1ST APRIL, NOON.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Allotments in the above Hundred will be offered for sale by public auction at the Court House, Mataura Bridge, on Thursday, the first day of April next, at noon, at the upset price of the sum set opposite each Section, as land of special value, in terms of the 85th clause of the "Otago Waste Land Act, 1872." The land having been improved by fencing and otherwise and compensation paid to Runholder.

Sections 10, 13, and 14, Block IV., Waikaia District, have been withdrawn from sale, but will be open for application on and after the 1st day of April next.

Applications for which may be lodged at the Land Office, or Invercargill, where plans may be seen and lithographs obtained

THURSDAY, 1ST APRIL,

RUN FOR SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease for ten years of Run No. 64, containing about 1600 acres, will be offered for sale by Public Auction, at the Court House, Mataura Bridge, on Thursday, the 1st day of April next, at noon, in terms of "Otago Waste Land Act, 1872," and especially the 144th clause of that Act, at the upset price, or premium of 2d. per acre; rental to be an assessment of 3s. 6d. for every head of great cattle, or 7d. for every head of small cattle, on the number to be hereafter determined by an assessor of the stock-carrying capacities of the Run, to be appointed by the Waste Land Board. The lease to commence on 1st April, 1875. The rent for the half year ending 1st October, 1875, and the deposit of one tenth of the purchase money, shall be payable at the fall of the hammer, the balance of purchase money within a month of date of sale.