JUNE 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 733

Crown Prosecutor appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS WILLIAM HISLOP, Esq.,

to be Crown Prosecutor at Oamaru for the District of Timaru and Oamaru, vice J. W. White, Esq.

THOMAS DICK.

District Manager of Railways appointed.

Railway Department,
Wellington, 6th June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES BELLINGHAM BARNARD HANKEY

to be District Manager of the Napier Section of the New Zealand Railways, vice W. J. Miller, Esq. The appointment to date from the 1st June, 1881.

JOHN HALL.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the under-mentioned appointments :—

I Battery of Artillery.

John Harkness Rice to be Second Lieutenant. Date of commission, 15th February, 1881.

Thames Rifle Ranger Volunteers.

Robert Stephenson McFarland to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 24th February, 1881.

Stoke Rifle Volunteers.

William Dixon Harkness to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of commission, 14th May, 1881.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers :—

Southland Regiment of Hussars.

Major Patrick Kinney McCaughan. Date of resignation, 14th May, 1881.

Kaiwharawhara Rifle Volunteers.

Captain Charles Thompson. Date of resignation, 19th May, 1881.

Te Aro School Rifle Cadet Volunteers.

Captain William Howard Holmes. Date of resignation, 12th May, 1881.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to disband the under-mentioned Volunteer Corps :—

No. 3 Inglewood Rifle Ranger Volunteers.

Wellington City Rifle Cadet Volunteers (at their own request).

Hokitika Rifle Cadet Volunteers.

The under-mentioned gentlemen therefore cease to be officers in the Volunteer Force, their commissions having lapsed under “The Volunteer Act, 1865:”—

Alfred Trimble, late Captain, No. 3 Inglewood Rifle Ranger Volunteers.

Archibald Little, late Captain, Hokitika Cadets.

Herbert Bloomer Curtis, late Lieutenant, No. 3 Inglewood Rifle Ranger Volunteers.

John Coldwell, late Sub-Lieutenant, No. 3 Inglewood Rifle Ranger Volunteers.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Application to register Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1881.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of THE VIN-SANTE AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMPANY (LIMITED), of 33, Princess Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, England, Manufacturers of Mineral Waters, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz. :—

Description of Trade Mark.

A view of Stock Ghyll Force, Westmoreland, England, in an oval, with the words “Vin-Sante” above.

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

Mineral and aerated waters, natural and artificial.

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1881.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following bonuses will be paid on articles produced in the Colony of New Zealand, as under :—

SUGAR.

A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be given for the production of the first 125 tons of sugar, manufactured in New Zealand, from beet grown in the colony.

LINSEED OIL.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be given for the production, by machinery permanently established in New Zealand, of the first ten thousand (10,000) gallons of oil, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown in the colony.

OIL CAKE.

A bonus of one hundred pounds (£100) will be given for the production of the first fifty tons of oil cake, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown in the colony.

STARCH.

A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be given on the first fifty tons of starch, manufactured in the colony, which shall be shipped to an English market, and for which a satisfactory certificate shall be given by dealers or brokers in England that the starch is of good marketable quality.

SILK.

A bonus of fifty per cent. on the value realized for the first thousand pounds’ (£1,000) worth of cocoons of the silkworm, or silkworms’ eggs, pro-