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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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specified below is hereby fixed, in addition to that at
present in force, and such scale shall come into force
from and after the 29th May, 1882:-

PART III.-GOODS.
Class E.
Substitution of rate for flour and oatmeal, in lieu
of present classified rates for the same:
Flour and oatmeal will be charged at the classified
rates for wheat, barley, and oats.
Dated this 16th day of May, 1882.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

Civil Service Literary Prize, 1882.

Office of Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 15th May, 1882.

A PRIZE of the value of £15 will be given for the
best essay on

FREEDOM OF DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT.
Conditions.

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   age of twenty-five years at this date who have passed
   either the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination,
   and who are in the 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, 1882.
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.

Branches of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1882.

THE under-mentioned Courts are registered as
branches of the Auckland District of the
Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, under
"The Friendly Societies Act, 1877," this 16th day
of May, 1882-

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

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. CHARLES JOHN MUDDLE, of Sydney, in
the Colony of New South Wales, Deputy
Registrar-General, has been appointed this day, by
his Honor the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, in the said colony,
under the second section of "The Commissioners of
the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of

administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits,
and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 10th May, 1882.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. ERNEST JOHN WERGE CHAMBERS, of
Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, a Solicitor
of the Supreme Court of the said colony, has been
appointed this day, by his Honor the Chief Justice, a
Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zea-
land, in the said colony, under the second section of
"The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act,
1875," for the purpose of administering and taking
all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the
said section mentioned.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 10th May, 1882.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. WILLIAM BIAGIONI PATERSON, of the
City of Glasgow, in Scotland, a Solicitor of the
High Justiciary Court of Scotland, and a Notary
Public, has been appointed this day, by his Honor
the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, in the said city, under the
fourth section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme
Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of taking acknow-
ledgements of married women, under any Act or law
in force in the Colony of New Zealand requiring
such acknowledgments to be made or taken.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 11th May, 1882.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. WILLIAM BIAGIONI PATERSON, of the
City of Glasgow, in Scotland, a Solicitor of the
High Justiciary Court of Scotland, and a Notary
Public, has been appointed this day, by his Honor
the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, in the said city, under the
second section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme
Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of administering
and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations
as in the said section mentioned.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 11th May, 1882.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 10th May, 1882.

PATENT for an Improvement of a Self-closing
Gate Hinge, to be called "Taylor's Patent
Champion Self-closing Gate Hinge."

WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Ohoka, Canterbury, has
deposited at this office a specification of the said
invention; and I have appointed Friday, the 4th day
of August next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at this
office, to hear the said application and all objections
thereto; and I require all persons having an interest
in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave,
on or before the 31st day of July next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said
application, otherwise they will be precluded from
urging the same.

No. 643.

W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.