THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
77

Wairarapa— (£ s. d.
(Militia and Volunteers).
Two Prizes of £10 each... 20 0 0
Two Prizes of £3 each 6 0 0
Two Prizes of £2 each 4 0 0
30 0 0

Hutt— (Volunteers).
1st Prize ... ... 10 0 0
2nd " ... ... 5 0 0
3rd " ... ... 3 0 0
4th " ... ... 2 0 0
20 0 0

Porirua— (Volunteers).
1st Prize ... ... 10 0 0
2nd " ... ... 3 0 0
3rd " ... ... 2 0 0
15 0 0

Wanganui and Rangitikei— (Volunteers).
Same as Wairarapa ... 30 0 0

Patea—
(Military Settlers and Native Contingent).
Two Prizes of £10 each 20 0 0
Two Prizes of £7 10s. each 15 0 0
Two Prizes of £5 each 10 0 0
Two Prizes of £3 each 6 0 0
51 0 0

Taranaki— (Military Settlers and Volunteers).
1st Prize ... ... 12 10 0
2nd " ... ... 7 10 0
3rd " ... ... 3 0 0
4th " ... ... 2 0 0
25 0 0

White Cliffs— (Military Settlers).
1st Prize ... ... 10 0 0
2nd " ... ... 3 0 0
3rd " ... ... 2 0 0
15 0 0

Marlborough— (Volunteers).
Two Prizes of £7 10s. each 15 0 0
Two Prizes of £2 10s. each 5 0 0
20 0 0

Nelson— (Volunteers).
Two Prizes, £12 10s. each 25 0 0
Two Prizes, £7 10s. each 15 0 0
Two Prizes, £3 each 6 0 0
Two Prizes, £2 each 4 0 0
50 0 0

Canterbury— (Volunteers).
Three Prizes of £12 10s. each, 37 10 0
Three Prizes of £7 10s. each 22 10 0
Three Prizes of £3 each ... 9 0 0
Three Prizes of £2 each 6 0 0
75 0 0

Otago— (Volunteers).
Same as Canterbury 75 0 0

Southland— (Volunteers).
1st Prize ... ... 7 10 0
2nd " ... ... 2 10 0
10 0 0

General Post Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1867.
T is hereby notified that a Telegraph Station is
now open at
KAIKOURA,
in the Province of Marlborough.
Office hours from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. on week days,
and on Sundays from 10 till 10.30 a.m., and from
5 till 5.30 p.m.
Also that the Telegraph Station at
PORT CHALMERS,
in the Province of Otago (now the property of the
General Government), will in future be open as
follows:—
Office hours from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. on week days,
and on Sundays from 10 till 10.30 a.m., and from
5 till 5.30 p.m.
The tariff rates can be seen at any of the Tele-
graph Stations.
JOHN HALL,
Telegraph Commissioner.

General Post Office, Wellington,
3rd February, 1867.
NOTICE. — Post Office Savings Banks.—Notice
is hereby given that Savings Banks have been
opened by Government at the Chief Post Offices at
Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, and Christchurch,
and at the Post Office at Hokitika, where deposits
will be received and payments made from this date.
JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

Stamp Office, Wellington,
6th February, 1867.
STAMP DUTIES ACT, 1866.—Caution.—The
attention of the public is called to section six-
teen (16) of the Stamp Duties Act, which specifies
the instruments on which the duties payable may be
denoted by adhesive stamps affixed by the makers or
holders.
On all other instruments, the stamp must be
affixed at the Stamp Office, any stamp not so affixed
is of no avail, and the instrument to which it is
affixed is unstamped within the meaning of the Act.
All instruments required to be stamped after execu-
tion (except those specified in section 16) must be
presented at the Stamp Office, within one month
after the date of the execution or they are subject to
a fine of twenty per cent. on the value of the stamp
to be affixed.
C. T. BATKIN,
(for the Commissioner of Stamp Duties.)

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 6th February, 1867.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information :—
Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend JAMES A. NORRIS.
I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in a List published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 7, of the 29th of January in the present
year.