SEPT. 22.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1195

Thames Scottish Battalion.
Lieutenant Peter Johnstone to be Captain. Date of
commission, 6th May, 1881.
Sub-Lieutenant Thomas Heron to be Lieutenant.
Alexander Wood Burns to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 13th May, 1881.

Wellington College Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Joseph Firth to be Captain. Date of commission,
6th September, 1881.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to accept the resignation
of the commissions held by the under-mentioned
officers :-

K Battery of Artillery.
Honorary Assistant Surgeon William George
McClure. Date of resignation, 5th September,
1881.

1st Westland Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Frederick Allan Learmonth. Date of
resignation, 20th June, 1881.

Blenheim Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Captain Hugh Patrick Macklin. Date of resignation,
15th September, 1881.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Designation of Corps altered.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to alter the designation
of the Wellington Grammar School Rifle Cadet
Volunteers to
The Wellington College Rifle Cadet Volunteers.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to disband
The Urenui Rifle Volunteers
at their own request.

The under-mentioned gentlemen therefore cease to
be officers in the Volunteer Force, their commissions
having lapsed under "The Volunteer Act, 1865 :"-
Thomas Wilson, late Captain.
Courtenay Melmoth Kyngdon, late Sub-Lieu-
tenant.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Despatch.-"The Native Land Court Act, 1880," not
disallowed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 1881.
THE following despatch from the Secretary of
State for the Colonies is published for general
information.

THOMAS DICK.

Downing Street,
(New Zealand, No. 31.) 15th July, 1881.
SIR, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your Despatch No. 22 of the 16th May last, and
to inform you that Her Majesty will not be advised
to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to
the Act of the Legislature of New Zealand, No. 38
of 1880, entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate
the Law relating to the Native Land Court," a
transcript of which accompanied the despatch of the
Officer Administering the Government, No. 59, of the
10th September last.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

Governor the Hon. Sir. A. H. Gordon,
G.C.M.G., &c.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1881.
NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS,
Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of
Victoria, has applied, on behalf of DAVID RANKEN
SHIRREFF GALBRAITH, of Edinburgh, in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain, Analytical and Consulting
Chemist, to register, under "The Trade Marks Act,
1866," the trade mark of which the following is a
description :-

Description of Trade Mark.
A representation of a vine leaf, on which are the
words "Galbraith's Grape Food, Grape Solids, or
Grape Powder."

Nature of the Article to which it is intended such
Trade Mark shall apply.
Medicine for human use.

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar
of Trade Marks.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 1881.
NOTICE is hereby given that JOSEPH HATCH, of
Invercargill, in the Colony of New Zealand,
Chemist, trading as JOSEPH HATCH AND COMPANY,
has applied to register, under "The Trade Marks
Act, 1866," the trade mark of which the following
is a description :-

Description of Trade Mark.
A label printed in black ink on paper of various
colours, or, in the case of transposing the same on
drums and casks, a stencil-plate used with white
paint on a dark ground of carbonate-of-iron paint
on drums, and on the head of casks in black paint
on a white ground. In the case of the labels the
border is printed, and on drums the border also
shows; on the heads of some casks the border is
not shown, there being no room for the same.
The whole label or stencil-plate is, including a
plain border (leaving spaces to keep stencil-plate
together), about 13 inches in width and 13 inches
deep, having thereon a sheep 2 3/4 inches from the top
of the same through which that portion of a cross
enabled to be seen by the sheep standing in front of
it; on the left-hand side of the cross is the letter
"J" on the top, and the letter "I" at the bottom;
on the right-hand side of the cross is the letter "H"
at the top, and the letters "Co." at the bottom; on
the left-hand side of the sheep is the word "Trade,"
and on the right-hand side of the sheep is the word
"Mark." In these two words the letters are 3/8 inch
long. Over the sheep, the cross, letters, and the
words "Trade Mark," are the words "Wilson's
Colonial" in a half-circle, and which letters are
3/8 inch long, and underneath the sheep is the word
"Dip" in letters 1 inch long; underneath the word
"Dip" the words "Sole Manufacturers," in letters
3/8 inch long; after which the name "J. Hatch & Co.,"
in letters 1 inch long; and at the bottom "Invercar-
gill," in letters 3/8 inch long, are printed.