Oct. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1549

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

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zealand Railways, fixed by Order in Council dated the 17th day of December, 1878, the following alterations and additions to the rates for the conveyance, delivery, and storage of goods, parcels, &c., on all the New Zealand Railways, are hereby declared to be fixed and to come into force from this date:—
All articles intended for the Industrial Exhibition to be held at Dunedin in June, 1881, shall be conveyed free over all the New Zealand Government Railways, provided that in the event of such exhibits being sold the railway charges shall be paid.
The packages must be clearly and legibly marked by exhibitors, "For Dunedin Industrial Exhibition."

CLASS K. TIMBER.

SMALL LOTS.—The provision applying to small lots of timber is hereby cancelled, and the following substituted, viz.: Any less quantity which can be carried in one truck will be charged as such minimum, or at 1d. per 100 superficial feet per mile. Where this rate is charged the minimum quantity will be 100 feet, and the minimum charge is 3d. per 100 superficial feet, without further charge for loading or unloading. The minimum charge for each consignment will be 2s. 6d.

Dated this 28th day of October, 1880.
R. OLIVER,
Minister for Public Works.

Resignation of Member of Land Board.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation of EDWARD PATTEN, Esq.,
as a Member of the Land Board of the Land District of Westland.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Officiating Ministers for 1880.—Notice No. 20.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1880.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of Officiating Ministers are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Richard Tout.
The Reverend Alexander Thomson.

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

"Friendly Societies Act, 1877.”—Advertisement of Dissolution by Instrument.

Registrar of Friendly Societies' Office,
21st October, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Loyal Arrow Lodge Society, Register No. 119, held at Arrow-

town, is dissolved by instrument, registered at this office the 21st day of October, 1880, unless, within three months from the date of the Gazette in which this advertisement appears, proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having any claim on the funds of the Society to set aside such dissolution, and the same is set aside accordingly.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar.

Post Office opened as a Government Life Insurance Office.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Post Office at the under-mentioned place has been opened as a Government Life Insurance Office:—

KIHIKIHI, AUCKLAND.

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

Standing Orders relative to Local Bills.

JOINT Standing Orders of both Houses of the General Assembly relative to Local Bills :—

1. Local Bills are those which, not being private Bills, affect particular localities only.
2. No Local Bill shall be read a second time, unless notice shall have been given of the said Bill in the locality to which the Bill refers.
3. Such notice shall state explicitly the object which such Bill is intended to effect, and shall have been published once at least in each of three successive weeks before the second reading, in a newspaper circulating in such locality.

October, 1880. F. E. CAMPBELL,
Clerk of Parliaments.

Crown Lands Notices.

Gold-Mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th October, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-mining leases cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no leases of the said ground had ever been applied for:—

Louis Davies (the Flora Gold-Mining Company); 14 acres 1 rood 6 perches, District of Reefton. No. 914.
Louis Davies (City of Melbourne Quartz-Mining Company); 16 acres 2 roods 5 perches, District of Inangahua. No. 843.
Louis Davies (Ulysses Quartz-Mining Company); 14 acres and 33 perches, District of Inangahua. No. 832.
James Grieve (Golconda Quartz-Mining Company); 16 acres and 4 perches, District of Reefton. No. 899.
The United Miners' Quartz-Mining Company (Limited); 14 acres 1 rood 29 perches, District of Reefton. No.