964

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

All goods, Classes A, B, C, D (except flax, and of postage, letters and parcels posted on the public
ships' goods, Classes A, B, C, D, from Picton), will be service.
charged as Class B.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Postmaster-General.

Goods of Class E, consigned to Picton for export
by ship, the maximum charge will be 6s. 6d. per ton,
including wharfage, loading, and unloading.

Class H.-Wool.
The rate for wool from Blenheim to Picton is hereby
cancelled, and the following substituted: Wool from
Blenheim to Picton will be charged 1s. 6d. per bale
for undumped, and 2s. 6d. per bale for double dumped,
to include all charges for loading and unloading, and
wharfage.

Flax dressed and pressed will be charged as Class
D. Maximum rate, 9s. 6d. per ton, including loading,
unloading, and wharfage.

WESTPORT SECTION.
Ships' Ballast.
The charge for receiving and discharging ships'
ballast will be 1s. per ton. Minimum charge, £1.

NELSON SECTION.
Class K.-Timber.
The local rate for timber is hereby cancelled.

HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.
Port Chalmers.
All goods not carried by rail, but loaded on to or
discharged from the railway wharves, will be charged
1s. per ton.

NEW PLYMOUTH SECTION.
The regulation about ships' goods at Waitara is
hereby cancelled.

PART VII.
CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.
"Flax dressed and pressed." If unpressed, rate
and a half will be charged, as Class D.

"Beer, bottled, packed, at owners' risk," will be
charged Class B.

"Cider, bottled, packed, at owners' risk," will be
charged Class B.

JOHN HALL,
(Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.)
Dated this 27th day of July, 1881.

Notice to Mariners. -No. 24 of 1881.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th July, 1881.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Secretary for Harbours and Navigation at
Melbourne, is published for general information.
H. A. ATKINSON.

LONSDALE BIGHT BEACONS.
REFERRING to Notice to Mariners containing sailing
directions for vessels of heavy draught entering Port
Philip Heads, dated the 17th March, 1881, pilots,
masters of vessels, and others are now informed that
the inner beacon has been altered from white to
chequered black and white.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Secretary for Harbours and Navigation.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 23rd June, 1881.

Authority to Frank and Receive.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 25th July, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
CHAIRMEN of CENTRAL BOARDS of EDUCATION
to frank and also receive, free from the prepayment

Telegraph Office opened..

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 20th July, 1881.
IT is hereby notified for general information that a
telegraph office has been opened at
HENLEY (County of Bruce).

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Tenders.

THE Postmaster-General and Commissioner of
Telegraphs is prepared to receive tenders, up
to 12 o'clock on the 1st September, 1881, at the
General Post Office, Wellington, addressed to the
Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department, for the
supply and delivery of 10,000,000 telegraph forms.
Specifications and samples can be seen at any Tele-
graph Office in the colony.

By order.
C. LEMON,
Superintendent, Posts and Telegraphs.
Head Office, Wellington, 20th July, 1881.

Officiating Ministers for 1881.-Notice No. 19.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1881.
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 name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information:-

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend James Hutton McKenzie.

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

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 21st July, 1881.
THE Loyal Excelsior Lodge, No. 5371, situated at
New Plymouth, is registered as a branch of the
New Plymouth District Branch of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, Friendly
Society, under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877,"
this 21st day of July, 1881.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Crown Lands thrown open for Selection.-Cash
Payments.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1881.
IT is hereby notified that the rural and pastoral
sections of Crown land situate in the Paikakariki,
Akatarawa, Belmont, Whareama, and Waipoua Sur-
vey Districts, offered at auction on the 13th instant,
but not sold, will, by direction of the Land Board, be
open to purchase on application at this office on
Thursday, the 25th August next.
One-fourth of the upset price to be paid with the
application, the balance within one month.

Jos. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.