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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by
Capt. W. Brassey, Thames Naval Volunteers.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Native Minister).

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th June, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband
The Palmerston Rifle Volunteers.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Vice-President, Invercargill Savings Bank, resigned
and appointed.

Treasury,
Wellington, 26th June, 1877.

IT is notified for public information that the
Trustees of the Invercargill Savings Bank have
elected

WILLIAM PANTON GRIGOR, Esq., L.R.C.S.E.,
to be Vice-President of that Bank, vice David Mc-
Kellar, Esq., resigned.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Officer under the Forest Trees Planting Encourage-
ment Acts appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS HUGHAN, Esq.,
to be an Officer, within the Provincial District of
Otago, to examine and to certify to the Governor
that the Regulations issued under "The Forest
Trees Planting Encouragement Act, 1871," and
"The Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act
Amendment Act, 1872," have been faithfully com-
plied with by any person within such district who
may claim to be entitled to a land order, under the
provisions of the said Acts, for having planted land
with forest trees.

D. REID,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Additions to and alteration in the Rates for the Con-
veyance of Passengers and for the Conveyance and
Delivery of Goods and Parcels on all the New
Zealand Railways, published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 48, of the 1st of June, 1877.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New
Zealand Railways, fixed by Order in Council
dated the 17th day of April, 1877, the following ad-
ditions to the rates for the conveyance of passengers,
and for the conveyance and delivery of goods and
parcels on all the New Zealand Railways, published
in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of the 1st of
June, 1877, are hereby declared to be fixed, and shall
come into force on the 1st day of July, 1877:--

PARCELS.

CONVEYANCE OF PARCELS FOR DISTANCES BEYOND
150 MILES.

Weight
For each 25 miles, or
fraction of 25 miles
}
7 lbs. 14 lbs. 28 lbs. 56 lbs.
3d. 3d. 6d. 9d.

PASSENGERS.

Ordinary return fares, except in cases specified in
clause 7 of the By-laws for the New Zealand Rail-
ways, to be one and a half the ordinary single fares,
with minimum charges of-
1st Class ... ... ... 9d.
2nd Class ... ... ... 6d.

GOODS.

The minimum charge for sawn timber to be 6d.
per hundred feet superficial.

STOCK, IMPLEMENTS, DOGS, AND POULTRY EX-
HIBITED AT AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.

Stock, implements, dogs, and poultry conveyed by
Railway for exhibition at Agricultural Shows may be
conveyed back to the station from which they were
originally sent free of cost, if unsold, but at owner's
risk, upon the production of a certificate in writing
from the Secretary of the Agricultural Show at
which they have been exhibited that such are unsold,
and that they are returned direct from the Show for
conveyance back to the station from which they were
sent. All loading, unloading, collection, and delivery
to be performed by the owners.

And in cancellation of the rates for the conveyance
of flour, sharps, bran, pollard, and meal, in bags or
packages, defined in Gazette No. 48, of the 1st of
June, 1877, the following rate is declared to be fixed,
and shall take effect from the 1st day of July next,
viz. :--

GOODS.

Flour, sharps, bran, pollard, and meal, in bags or
packages, per ton of 2,200 lbs., at 2d per ton or
fraction of a ton, per mile, or fraction of a mile,
with a terminal charge of 2s 6d.

For each loading or unloading done by the con-
signor a remission of 9d. per ton will be made.
Minimum, 2 tons, if less then as Class A. (at owner's
risk).

GEO. MCLEAN,
(Minister acting for the Minister for Public Works).
27th June, 1877.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1877.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
Tenderers is published for general information.

D. REID,
Minister acting for Minister for Public Works.

WAIPAOA BRIDGE CONTRACT (SITE No. 2), POVERTY
BAY, COOK COUNTY.

Accepted.
W Sims, Grahamstown
... ... ... 2,987 15 0 £ s. d.

Declined.
P. Lanigan, Auckland ... ... ... 3,313 0 0
J. Briton, Auckland ... ... ... 3,494 15 0
M. McLeod, Gisborne ... ... ... 3,874 6 2
William Cameron, Auckland ... ... ... 3,929 6 0
J. Briton, Auckland ... ... ... 3,964 0 0
N. McInnes, Auckland ... ... ... 4,014 16 4
A. Watson, Auckland ... ... ... 4,683 6 8
C. A. Berry, Gisborne ... ... ... 5,227 19 0

KAIPARA-PUNIU RAILWAY.

Auckland to Riverhead Section.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1877.

NOTICE is hereby given, that plans, showing
generally the nature of the works to be per-
formed in the construction of the above section of
Railway, are deposited at the under-mentioned places,
where they can be seen at all reasonable hours for