THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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HAMILTON BRANCH CONTRACT.
Accepted.
John Briton, Auckland ... 2,979 15 6
Declined.
Daniel Fallon, Auckland ... 3,033 14 4
Robert Martin, Auckland ... 3,116 8 4
Amerley and Nicholson, Auckland ... 3,284 15 2
Isaac Coates, Auckland ... 4,399 0 0

Assistant Under Secretary for Public Works
appointed.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
CHARLES THOMAS BENZONI, Esq.,
to be Assistant Under Secretary for Public Works.
Promoted from Chief Clerk.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

Chief Surveyor appointed for the Provincial District
of Wellington.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
JOHN WILLIAM ALLMAN MARCHANT, Esq.,
to be Chief Surveyor of the Provincial District of
Wellington, from March 20, 1879.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

First Geodesical Surveyor appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
CHARLES WILLIAM ADAMS, Esq.,
to be first Geodesical Surveyor in the General Survey
Department, vice J. W. A. Marchant, Esq., pro-
moted. Appointment to date from March 20, 1879.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Inspecting Surveyor appointed for the Provincial
District of Wellington.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
GEORGE WATKIN WILLIAMS, Esq.,
to be Inspecting Surveyor for the Provincial District
of Wellington, from March 20, 1879.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Agricultural Lease cancelled.

Secretary for Gold Fields' Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government has been
pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned agricul-
tural lease cancelled; and that the ground is now
open for application under the Agricultural Lease
Regulations:—
No. 274. George James; Sections 75 and 84,
Square 138, Upper Buller District, Nelson South-
West Gold Fields.

J. BALLANCE,
(in the absence of the Minister of Lands.)

Governors of Whangarei High School appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st March, 1879.

PURSUANT to section 3 of "The Whangarei
High School Act, 1878," His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government has been pleased
to appoint
GEORGE EDWIN ALDERTON, Esq., and
CHARLES HERBERT REID, Esq.,
to be Members of the Board of Governors of the
Whangarei High School.

J. BALLANCE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 12 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th March, 1879.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Harbourmaster, Hokitika, is published for
general information.

J. BALLANCE.

Harbour Office,
Hokitika, 20th February, 1879.

OWING to the difficulty of distinguishing the colour
of the leading beacons at Hokitika the colour has
been changed from white to red, and the front beacon
has every alternate square foot down the centre
painted black, to distinguish it from the back beacon,
which has a black band painted horizontally across
the middle, two feet wide, and each beacon is sur-
mounted with a red flag.

This colour distinguishes the beacons from the
colour of all surrounding objects.

THOMAS TURNBULL,
Harbourmaster.

Application for Registration of Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1879.

NOTICE is hereby given that SMITH, ANDERSON,
and Co., of Dunedin, in the Colony of New
Zealand, Solicitors, have applied, on behalf of Messrs.
JAMES RATTRAY and Co., of Dunedin, in the said
Colony, Merchants, Agents for Messrs ROBERT
PORTER and Co., of King's Cross, London, Bottlers
of Bass and Co.'s Burton-upon-Trent Pale Ale, and
extra Stout or Porter brewed by Arthur Guinness,
Son, and Co., of Dublin, Ireland, to register under
"The Trade Marks Act, 1866," the Trade Mark of
which the following is a description, viz. :—

Description of Trade Mark.

An oval paper label, measuring nearly 3½ by 3½
inches, on which is depicted in the centre a white
bull-dog, with a collar and ring round the neck, on a
black ground, with the words "Robt. Porter and
Co." in written characters printed in black across the
breast and along the body of the dog, and having
around the centre a ¾-inch band of blue, on which
are printed in letters of various sizes the words
"Trade Mark, Robert Porter and Co., Export
Bottlers, King's Cross, London.

Nature of the Articles to which it is intended such
Trade Mark shall apply.

1. Guinness's Extra Stout, bottled by Robert
   Porter and Co., of King's Cross, London, in glass
   bottles, usually called champagne quarts and cham-
   pagne pints; the bottles also bear a capsule on
   which is depicted a bull-dog and the white paper
   label of Messrs. Guinness, Son, and Co.