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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
survey to be within the pegs and trenches of the
applicants, situated between Tipperary and Tip-
perary No. 1 South, on south side of Tipperary
Creek, Macetown.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
fourth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regulations
made under that Act for the granting of leases for
gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is
intended to grant a lease for gold-mining purposes
of Crown lands to the applicant specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such lease.

Objections to granting such lease, stating the
grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and
lodged with the Warden at Clyde, on or before the
12th day of February, 1878.

Copy of the application made and plans annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Clyde.

SCHEDULE.

PATRICK MURPHY. Style under which it is intended
to conduct business: "Murphy and Company." Six
acres, in the Otago Gold Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
fourth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 5th February, 1878.

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

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister for Public Works.)

FEATHERSTON STATION CONTRACT, FORMATION
AND BUILDINGS, WELLINGTON-MASTERTON
RAILWAY.

Accepted.
James Sutherland, Wellington ... £ 3,549 3 0

Declined.
Murdoch and Rose ... ... ... 4,026 6 11
W. Rowe, Wanganui ... ... ... 4,237 0 0
Hector Reid, Dunedin ... ... ... 4,288 4 6
Tawse and Brown, Wellington ... 4,421 18 6
W. J. Ridler, Wellington ... ... 4,481 16 6
Collie and Co., Wellington ... ... 4,800 11 6
J. Saunders, Wellington ... ... 4,975 0 0
E. O'Malley, Wellington ... ... 4,997 0 0
J. Adams, Wellington ... ... 5,480 0 0

Secretary to the Department of Education appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th January, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint

JOHN HISLOP, Esq.,

Secretary to the Department of Education,
he 1st instant.

J. BALLANCE.

Appointment of Chief Clerk in Education
Department.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th February, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint

Sir EDWARD OSBORNE-GIBBES, Bart.,
to be Chief Clerk in the Department of Education,
from the 1st instant.

J. BALLANCE.

Cancellation of Drawback on Goods exported from
Victoria.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 31st January, 1878.

THE following Gazette notice, received from the
Department of Trade and Customs in Melbourne,
cancelling order respecting the allowance of draw-
back of duties on certain articles, is published for
general information.

J. BALLANCE.

DRAWBACKS OF DUTIES.

THE Governor in Council has cancelled the order
specifying the articles on which a drawback of duty
paid on importation into Victoria might be allowed
on exportation, so far as relates to the goods specified
in the Schedule hereunto annexed, on and after the
4th of January instant.

PETER LALOR,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Melbourne, 4th January, 1878.

SCHEDULE OF GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDISE
TO BE EXEMPT FROM DUTY.

"Apparel, slops, and all articles made up wholly or
in part from silk, cotton, linen, or of wool, or of
mixed material," except the following articles of
apparel, whether wholly or partly made up (except
hosiery), viz.,-Aprons, breeches, coats, capes, cloaks,
costumes, collars, cuffs, sleeves and sets, crinolines,
camisoies, dresses, furs made up, frocks, fronts,
infants' hoods and hats, infants' swathes and bibs,
jackets, knickerbocker suits or portions of suits,
leggings, mantles, muslin and net scarfs, night-
dresses, pants, pelisses, petticoats, pinafores, ruffles,
robes, shirts of all kinds, skirts, stays, shawls,
trousers, tunics, vests, wristbands; men's, women's,
and children's underclothing; also the following
articles of artificial human hair manufactured, viz.,-
Head-dresses, hair-plats, hair-plat stems, side-pads,
chignons; also mats.
Cartridges.
Cement.
Drugs.
Drugs, preparations of.
Fancy goods.
Fine gunpowder, imported in packages containing
in bulk not less than 25 lbs. weight each.
Fish, salted, dried, or preserved in brine.
Gilt mouldings and beadings for picture-frames of
wood or other material.
Hickory spokes and felloes in the rough.
Hosiery.
Iron, galvanized.
Iron wire, Nos. 1 to 9.
Ivory billiard-balls in the rough.
Machinery used in the manufacture of paper and
for felting, including wire-cloth and felts.
Manufactures of metals, as follows: Anvils,.