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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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2. The vessels employed to be not less than 3,000
   tons gross tonnage.
3. The contractor to have the option on each
   voyage of making Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton,
   or Port Chalmers the first port of arrival in New
   Zealand and the last port of departure, with liberty
   to call before departure at as many of the ports as
   the contractor may think fit.
4. The service to be performed each way within
   1,200 hours.
5. Passengers to be carried at rates not exceeding
   the following:-
   Second class ... ... ... £30
   Third class ... ... ... £15
   Government immigrants at rates not exceeding the
   following:-
   Statute adults ... ... ... £15
   Children above one year old and
   under twelve years ... ... £9
   Children under one year old Free
   Cargo for New Zealand Government:—
   Ordinary dead weight ... 24s. per ton.
   Ordinary measurement 30s. per ton.
6. A preference will be given the contractor for
   the carriage of Government immigrants and cargo.
   The probable quantity of Government cargo per
   year will be about 14,000 tons, and the number of
   Government immigrants about 2,500 per annum.
   No absolute guarantee as to quantity of cargo or
   number of immigrants will be given.
7. All the vessels to be fitted with approved
   refrigerating machinery for the freezing of meat and
   dairy produce, and each vessel to be provided with a
   fire and vermin-proof locker for the safe custody of
   mails.
8. The vessels employed will be exempt from the
   payment of light and harbour dues at New Zealand
   ports.

The above particulars are given without prejudice
to a revision or alteration of the terms and conditions
of contract which may be finally issued by the
Agent-General, from whom further particulars can
be obtained.

THOMAS DICK,
Postmaster-General.

Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th September, 1882.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of six
thousand pounds (£6,000) has been voted by
Parliament for distribution to public libraries.
The distribution will take place on the 31st
January, 1883, and no claim will be considered that
shall not have been sent in in due form, and received
by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, before
the 22nd January, 1883.

Every public library maintained by rates will be
entitled to share in the distribution according to its
income from rates; and every library maintained by
subscriptions and voluntary contributions will be
entitled to share according to its income from sub-
scriptions and voluntary contributions: Provided
in either case that admission to the library, if within
a borough, is open to the public free of charge.

The income of each library may be stated either
for the year ending 31st December, 1882, or for the
year ending with that day in the year 1882 on which
the annual accounts of the library were made up.

The distribution will not be in proportion to the
several incomes of the libraries; but a nominal
addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each
income, and the vote of £6,000 will be divided in
proportion to the amounts as thus augmented.

Application to share in the distribution must be
made in the form of a statutory declaration by the
Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institu-
tion on behalf of which it is made; and such declara-
tion shall be in the following form:—

DECLARATION.

I [Name], of [Place of abode], [Occupation], do solemnly and
sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary, or Treasurer]
of the [Name of institution], and that during the year ending
the day of , 1882, the income of the aforesaid
institution for the purposes of a library only was as follows:
pounds shillings and pence; and from the subscriptions of members,
pounds shillings and pence; and from voluntary contributions
other than members' subscriptions, pounds
shillings and pence; and that by the rules of the insti-
tution admission to the reading-room is open to the public free
of charge.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing
the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace
Act, 1882."

[Here affix and can-
cel a stamp at
2s. 6d.]

Declared at , this day of , 188, before
me—

Justice of the Peace
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

[NOTE.—The words relating to free admission may
be struck out if the library is not in a borough. The
words in brackets are not part of the form, but indi-
cate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

Copies of the form of statutory declaration may be
obtained on application to the Secretary for Educa-
tion, Wellington, or to the Secretary of any Educa-
tion Board.

THOMAS DICK.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1882.

PATENT for an Invention for the Deepening and
Cleaning Rivers and Canals.

RICHARD KINGSFORD, of Lyttelton, New Zealand,
has deposited at this office a specification of the said
invention; and I have appointed Friday, the 29th
day of December 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 14th day of Decem-
ber next, at this office, particulars in writing of their
objections to the said application, otherwise they will
be precluded from urging the same.

No. 674.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Notice to Undertakers and others registering Deaths.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1882.

THE attention of persons whose duty it may be to
register the death of any deceased person is
directed to the provisions of "The Registration of
Births and Deaths Act Amendment Act, 1882," which
requires that, when the death of any person who may
have children surviving is registered, the age as well
as the sex of each child living at the time of such
death is to be entered in the register of death.

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

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 19th October, 1882.

THE Court Springfield, No. 6033, situated at
Springfield, is registered as a branch of the