THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 67

Distributor of Duty Stamps appointed.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties,
Wellington, 19th January, 1875.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that
Mr. CHARLES J. NORTON,
Postmaster at Kowai, in the Province of Canterbury,
has been appointed a Licensed Distributor of Duty
Stamps.

R. C. HAMMERTON,
Acting Secretary.

Insurance Agent appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
(Industrial Branch,)
Wellington, 19th January, 1875.

THE under-mentioned person has been appointed
Agent for the Industrial Branch of this Depart-
ment, for the Perseverance Tent, Independent Order
of Rechabites, under "The Government Insurance
and Annuities Act, 1874:"—

WILLIAM JOHNSON, Wellington.
W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Officers appointed by the General and Provincial
Governments and Municipal Corporations liable to
pay Stamp Duties before entering on duties of
Office.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties
Wellington, 19th January, 1875.

THE Commissioner of Stamps desires to point out
to Heads of Departments in the General and
Provincial Governments, and also in Municipal Cor-
porations, that by section 12 of "The Stamp Duties
Act Amendment Act, 1871," it is provided that every
person, before he shall enter on the duties of his
office or employment, is required to pay the proper
duty in respect thereof to the Commissioner; and no
Warrant or Letter of Appointment shall be issued or
granted by the Responsible Officer of the Depart-
ment to which such office shall be attached, or within
whose control the same may be, until he has satisfied
himself of the payment of such duty.

The Commissioner having been informed of certain
cases in which officers have been promoted from one
branch of the Service to another without proper
Letters or Warrants of Appointment, and also of
cases where Letters of Appointment had been issued
without previous payment of the Stamp Duty, would
draw attention to the circumstance that all unstamped
appointments are invalid, and that the Appointees
may become liable to the penalties in the Statute for
unstamped documents.

Heads of Departments are also informed that all
appointments whatsoever, whether liable to duty or
not, should in future be submitted for assessment to
the Commissioner, when the duty exigible will be
noted on the instrument of appointment, which will
thereupon be returned to the Department forwarding
it. The amount so assessed will be collected as at
present. If no duty be payable, the fact will be so
noted.

Attention is specially directed to the circumstance
that after this date the Commissioners of Audit and
the various Provincial Auditors will decline to pass
the salary of any officer on whose appointment duty
is payable, unless the terms of this notice be complied
with.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Medical Referee appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
(Industrial Branch,)
Wellington, 19th January, 1875.

THE under-mentioned person has been appointed
a Medical Referee for the Industrial Branch of
the above Department, for the Perseverance Tent,
Independent Order of Rechabites, in the Wellington
District, under "The Government Insurance and
Annuities Act, 1874:"—

ROBERT HARDING, Esq., L.A.H. Dub., L.R.C.S.I.,
L.R.C.P. Edin., Wellington.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

"Marriage Act, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1875.—NOTICE
No. 2.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1875.

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:—

Congregational Independent.
The Reverend JAMES MAXWELL.

WM. R. E. BROWN.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Charles Edward
Button, Esq., Solicitor, of Hokitika, has applied
on behalf of Messrs. Henry Mace and John Dixon,
of Hokitika, Province of Westland, carrying on the
business of Ærated Water Manufacturers under the
firm of "Mace and Dixon," to register the following
trade mark under "The Trade Marks Act, 1866:"—

Description of Trade Mark.

The words "Mace and Dixon's" (in type known
as four-line Roman); "Double Soda Water" (in
type known as three-line Roman); "Hokitika"
(in type known as four-line Roman); "N.Z." (in
same type) in raised letters, commencing in four
places at the neck of a bottle known in the Ærated
Water bottle manufacturing trade as "Egg Soda's,"
and extending towards the base of the said bottle.
Such raised letters being part of the said bottle.

Nature of the Article to which such Trade Mark
is intended to apply.

Every preparation of Ærated Water which in
following the business of Ærated Water Manufac-
turers the said Mace and Dixon have prepared or
manufactured, or which they at any time hereafter
may prepare or manufacture.

G. S. COOPER,
(for Registrar of Trade Marks).
Wellington, 20th January, 1875.

Wanganui Waterworks Notice.

Superintendent's Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1875.

IN accordance with the 82nd clause of "The Muni-
cipal Corporation Waterworks Act, 1872," I
hereby notify, that no objection having been received
by me to the construction of Waterworks in the
Borough of Wanganui, that the same will be con-
structed in accordance with the said Act.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent,