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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

Name of Office. In what Postal District. Circulating Office.
Canavan ... Timaru ... Timaru.
Edenvale ... Auckland ... Auckland.
Gapes Valley ... Timaru ... Timaru.
Longford ... Westport ... Westport.
Sherwood ... Christchurch ... Christchurch.
Waihou ... Auckland ... Auckland.
Winchmore ... Christchurch ... Christchurch.

Post Offices closed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1880.

THE following list of Post Offices within the colony
which have been closed is published for general
information.

JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

Name of Office. In what Postal District. Circulating Office.
Eden Terrace ... Auckland ... Auckland.
Hampden ... Westport ... Westport.
Tamumu ... Napier ... Napier.
Terrace End ... Wellington ... Wellington.
The Crossing (Nevis) ... Dunedin ... Dunedin.
Waitangi ... Hokitika ... Hokitika.
Weka Pass ... Christchurch ... Christchurch.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1880.

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

R. OLIVER,
Minister for Public Works.

WAICOLA CONTRACT OF THE OTAUTAU-NIGHT-
CAPS RAILWAY.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
J. Ford, Invercargill 4,394 2 4

Declined.
McLean, Kennedy, and Casey 4,414 0 9
A. Springford, Invercargill 4,422 0 4
Gallagher and Kaveney, Invercargill ... 4,636 11 6
J. Shirley, Otautau 4,863 6 8
Copples and Ford, Otautau 4,971 1 10
A. and J. Calder, Riverton 4,987 18 4
J. G. Bennett, Winton 5,252 13 11
D. A. McIntosh and Co., Riverton 5,263 4 2
J. Coates, Palmerston 5,511 3 4
A. Menzies, Invercargill 5,580 16 0
Martin and Hughes, Invercargill 5,589 7 11
G. Mackie, Dunedin 5,730 9 9
T. S. Dewe, Invercargill 5,766 5 8
McKenzie and McEachern, Mosgiel 5,816 2 10
W. Bell, Dunedin 6,133 6 7
Downes and Procter, Dunedin 6,139 8 6
J. Monday, Dunedin 6,484 14 0
G. Howell and Co., Riverton 7,415 8 0
P. Sutherland, Port Chalmers 7,503 9 0

Notice to Mariners. No. 18 of 1880.

ROCK OFF CAPE KOAMOROO.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sunken rock with
only 1 fathom on it at low-water spring tides
exists about a quarter of a mile from the extremity
of the reef on the western side of Cape Koamoroo, on
the following bearings, viz.: From White Rocks
S.E. E., and from Cape Koamoroo W. by S. S.

The south end of Long Island, just open of the
westernmost Twin, leads 1 cables clear of the rock.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister acting for the Minister having
charge of the Marine Department.

Notice to Mariners. No. 19 of 1880.

ENTRANCE TO BULLER RIVER, WEST COAST OF
MIDDLE ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th April, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that the channel over
the Buller Bar has recently changed. The white
light on the flagstaff in line with the red light on the
beacon on the south side of the river leads over the
bar, the present course being S.E. by S. S. When
the two beacons with red lights, on the town side, are
in one, a course up the river may be steered.

THOMAS DICK,
(in absence of the Minister having charge
of the Marine Department.)

Officiating Ministers for 1880. - Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 1880.

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 :-

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Ethelwald O'Gara.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Civil Service Literary Prize.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 20th March, 1880.

AN offer having been made to the Civil Service
Examination Board of a sum of £5 per annum,
for five years, to provide for prizes for the best essays
on the principles and practice of Parliamentary
Government, and cognate subjects, the Board an-
nounce that the subject for the present year shall be
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY
IN ENGLAND.

Prize to be competed for under the following con-
ditions:-

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   age of 25 years at this date who have passed either
   the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and
   who are in the Civil Service at the time of competition.
2. The prize to be in books or money, at the option
   of the prize-taker.
3. Essays to be legibly written, and on one side of
   the paper only.
4. Essays to be delivered to the Secretary of the
   Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by the
   31st December, 1880.
5. No competitor to allow his name to appear on
   his essay, but to adopt a motto or cypher, which is
   also to be written on a sealed envelope containing
   the author's name, and attached to the essay.
6. The prize will not be awarded unless there is an
   essay which, in the judgment of the examiners, is
   of sufficient merit to entitle the author to receive it.
7. Competitors are advised to keep copies of their
   essays, as those sent to the Board will not be re-
   turned.

G. S. COOPER,
Chairman.