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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointment of Engineer in Charge for North Island.
Public Works Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN BLACKETT, Esq., M. Inst. C.E.,
to be Engineer in Charge for the North Island, from
the 16th of May last.

J. MACANDREW.

Alterations and Additions to the Rates for the Con-
veyance, Delivery, and Storage of Goods, Parcels,
&c., on all the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Order in Council, dated
the 17th day of April, 1877, the following alterations
to the rates for the conveyance, delivery, and storage
of goods, parcels, &c., on all the New Zealand Rail-
ways are hereby declared to be fixed. To take effect
from the 1st day of July, 1878:—

STANDARDS (IRON) FOR FENCING.
Standards (iron), in bundles, to be carried under
Class C. If loose, under Class B.

CLASS M.—HORSES AND CATTLE.
Foals (one year old and under) to be charged half
the rate charged for horses.

Dated this 20th day of June, 1878.
J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

Special Claim Grant under Gold Fields Act cancelled.

Secretary for Gold Fields Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1878.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned grant of a special claim cancelled:—
No. 2B, the Halcyon Quartz-Mining Company
(Limited); 24 acres 3 roods 6 perches, in the Nelson
South-West Mining District.

J. T. FISHER,
(in the absence of the Minister of Lands.)

£10,000 Bonus.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1878.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in terms of a reso-
lution of the House of Representatives, the
Government of New Zealand will pay, by way of
bonus, the sum of five thousand pounds (£5,000) to
any individual or company who shall first produce
not less than five hundred (500) tons of marketable
sugar from beet grown and manufactured in the
North Island. Also that a like sum of five thousand
pounds (£5,000) will be paid to any individual or
company who shall first produce not less than five
hundred (500) tons of marketable sugar from beet
grown and manufactured in the Middle Island.
Such bonus to be paid upon its being duly certified
by the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the district
within which the sugar shall have been produced,
and by the Chairman of the nearest Chamber of
Commerce, that the minimum quantity hereinbefore
mentioned has been so produced, and is of market-
able quality: Provided further that such certificates
shall have been presented at the Colonial Treasury
within three years of the date above written.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

Appointments in the Surveyor-General's Department.
General Survey Office,
Wellington, 19th June, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointments in the De-
partment of the Surveyor-General:—

ROBERT WALLACE STANLEY BALLANTYNE, Drafts-
man. From 1st June, 1878.
ARTHUR BLUNDELL WRIGHT, Draftsman. From
1st June, 1878.
WILLIAM CHARLES COTTON SPENCER, Cadet. From
1st April, 1878.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

Services of Clerk in Christchurch Survey Office
dispensed with.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 19th June, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to dispense with the services of
Mr. J. F. MILES,
Land Application Clerk, of the Survey Office,
Christchurch.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

Registrars of Joint Stock Companies appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be
Registrars of Joint Stock Companies for the pro-
vincial districts set opposite their respective names.
These appointments are to take effect on and from
the 1st July proximo:--

Thomas Cotter, Esq., Auckland, vice J. M. Way-
land, Esq.
John Beckett Fielder, Esq., Hawke's Bay, vice J.
M. Wayland, Esq.
John Owen Lord, Esq., Wellington, vice William
Fox Cheeseman, Esq.
Edwin Bamford, Esq., Nelson, vice Lowther
Broad, Esq.
William Stafford Furby, Esq., Marlborough, vice
Lowther Broad, Esq.
Gwalter Palairet, Esq., Christchurch, vice E.
Denham, Esq.
Francis Russell Smith, Esq., Otago, vice A. W.
Smith, Esq.
William Stuart, Esq., Southland, vice A. W. Smith,
Esq.
Alfred Hassall King, Esq., Westland, vice W. P.
Crauford, Esq.

J. BALLANCE.

Depositary of Duty Stamps appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 24th June, 1878.

IT is hereby notified for public information that
Mr. GEORGE ALFRED KEYS,
Postmaster at Malvern, in the Provincial District of
Canterbury, has been appointed a Depositary of
Duty Stamps.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Secretary for Stamps.