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punished as provided by Part VI. of "The Regula-
tion of Mines Act, 1874."

ADDITIONAL SPECIAL RULES

To be set in force should inflammable gas or fire-damp
be known to exist or to have existed in any of the
workings or parts.

A. In every part of the said colliery, where neces-
sary, stations will be fixed upon by the viewer or
manager, where each workman's safety-lamp will be
examined or securely locked.

B. From these stations no workman is to take a
safety-lamp without its having been examined and
securely locked by the oversman, inspector, deputy,
or manager, whichever may be on duty at the time.

C. The oversman and inspector to have full power
to direct the workmen how to use their safety-lamps
during the time of working, and it is particularly
enjoined that every workman strictly attend to such
directions. No lamp to be used on which there is
not a proper shield. None but the oversman, or
similar officer in authority, to be allowed to carry a
lamp-key.

D. Should any workman using a safety-lamp detect,
by the usual indications, the appearance or presence
of fire-damp, he is first to pull down the wick with
the pricker and then to retreat to the lamp-station,
and give information to the nearest responsible
person, it being strictly forbidden for any workman
to continue to work in a place where such indications
have been observed by him; and should the flame
continue in the interior of the lamp after the wick
has been drawn down, the lamp is then to be
cautiously removed, and no attempt whatever to ex-
tinguish the flame by any other means is to be made
by any of the workmen.

E. Every hewer, putter, or other person whatever
in charge of a safety-lamp, in any case losing his
light, is himself to take the lamp to the lamp station
to be re-lighted, examined, and locked by the overs-
man, or some responsible person, before being again
used.

F. Any person witnessing improper treatment of
the safety-lamps by any one shall give immediate
information to the viewer or oversman in charge of
the pit or mine, so that a recurrence of such conduct
may be prevented, by the offending party being
brought to justice.

G. In places where safety-lamps are used, no
person shall use or have a naked light, or have in his
possession any apparatus either for smoking tobacco
or striking a light.

H. No putter, driver, drawer, or helper-up, or
other person, to carry a lamp during his work, except
he has leave to do so from the viewer or manager.

I. Every person using a safety-lamp is to take it
home at the end of each shift, for the purpose of
having it properly cleaned before using it again.

J. Any person acting contrary to the above rules
will be liable to be taken before a Magistrate, and
to be punished as provided by Part VI of "The Regu-
lation of Mines Act, 1874."

To Oversmen, Deputies, and Others.

K. Rules 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 29
must be strictly adhered to, and in no case or
pretence deviated from. A strict adherence to
rules for the safety of the mine and workmen must
at all times under such circumstances be performed
to the letter, as the Company's desire is to study the
safety of their workmen, and by so doing their own
property; and any person informing against any
offending party or parties will be in every case
handsomely rewarded.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1879.--NOTICE No. 16.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1879.

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:---

Primitive Methodist Connection.
The Reverend George Smith.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General..

Notice of Time and Place for hearing Objections to
Valuations under "The Land-Tax Act, 1878."

VALUATION FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Land-Tax Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the pro-
visions of "The Land-Tax Act, 1878," section
32, the objections to the valuation lists, and claims
for exemption from land-tax, for the County of
Taranaki and Borough of New Plymouth, will be heard
at the Resident Magistrate's Courthouse, New Ply-
mouth, on Friday, the 19th September, at 10 a.m.

JOHN SPERREY,
Land-Tax Commissioner.

Commissioners of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.-His Honor the Chief Justice has, this
twenty-ninth day of August, 1879, appointed
JOHN FERRIER HAMILTON, of Queen Street, Mel-
bourne, in the Colony of Victoria, a Solicitor of the
Supreme Court of the said colony, to be a Commis-
sioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, for
the purpose of taking any oath, affidavit, or affirma-
tion, also for taking the acknowledgments of mar-
ried women, in the said Colony of Victoria; and
GEORGE MIDDLETON BARTHOLD, of Murchison, in
the Colony of Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of the said colony, to be a Commissioner of
the Supreme Court of New Zealand, for the purpose
of taking any oath, affidavit, or affirmation, in the
said Colony of Victoria. Both appointments made
under "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court
Act, 1875."

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.
Wellington, 29th August, 1879.

Sale of Crown Lands.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
allotments of Crown lands will be offered for
sale by public auction, at the Lands Office, Hokitika,
on Wednesday, the 17th day of September, 1879, at
2 o'clock p.m. One-fourth of the purchase-money
to be paid at the sale, and the remainder within one
calendar month, or the deposit will be forfeited:---

Section 38, Town of Pounamu, containing 20
perches. Upset price, £4 7s. 6d.

Section 39, Town of Pounamu, containing 18
perches. Upset price, £3 18s. 9d.

J. GILES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 13th August, 1879.