The registration fee (10s) must accompany each applica tion When more applications than one are made on the same day for the same land, the right to occupy the land applied for shall—married men having the preference-be determine! by lot amongst the appli ' Forms of application and conditions of occupation can be hud at the District Land Offices and the Crown Lands Office, Dunedm. MMTLAND) Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lauds Office, Dunedin, 29th July 1886. 30]U /^l RANT OF ONE HUNDRED (£100) FOR \T INVENTION OF MACHINERY FOR HAB VESTING AND THRESHING PEASE, 1. A sum not exceeding one hundred pounds may be paid to any person or company who shall, in the opinion of the Minister of Agriculture, produce a Machine capable of threshing, or threshing and har vesting, within 12 hours, 800 bushels of pea66 with out injury thereto. 2. The reward shall be paid only to the inventor, or his agent, of such Machine as shall most oheaply, efficiently, and rapidly perform the work required and within the time aforesaid. 3. Persons intending to compete for the reward must Elve notice in writing of their intention to the Secretary for Agriculture, Melbourne, NOT LATER than the 18th November next. 4. One or more trials of the Machines shall be maue at such place or places and at such times as the Minister may direct. 5. All costs and expenses of forwarding, attend ance and working tho Machines, at the times to bn appointed, shall be paid by the persons entering the Machines for competition. 6. The Minister may appoint three or more Judges to reporfc'npon the merits of thecompeting Machines, and a decision of a majority of such Judges shall be final. 7. The Judges may recommend payment of an amount or (amounts the total of which shall not ex ceed one hundred pounds (£1.00) to the inventor or inventors, or his or their agent or agents, of the suo cessfill Machine or Muchiuts; such amounts to be apportioned to the value to the Colony of tho said invention or inventions. JNQ. S. DOW. Minister of Agrioulture. ;» Melbourne, 16th July, ISS6, 3au Tenders nnENDERS arc requested for the CON' -■- STRUCTION of an HOTEL in WO.GD for Mrs llulvey, East Gore Full particulars at Mulvey's Hotel, East Gora; alS°WitQ FB ANK W. 