Dec. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1783

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to disband

The Greymouth Ranger Volunteers.

The under-mentioned gentlemen therefore cease to be officers in the Volunteer Force, their commissions having lapsed under the provisions of “The Volunteer Act, 1881:”

George Simpson Smith, late Captain.

Charles Lloyd Morice, late Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
(in absence of Defence Minister.)

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1883.

NOTICE is hereby given that FRED WALSH, Manager of EDWARD WATERS, International Patent and Trade Marks Office, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, has applied, on behalf of the POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL COMPANY, a company trading as Drugs and Chemicals Manufacturers, at No. 105, Columbia Avenue, in the City of Boston and State of Massachusetts, United States of America, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz.:

Description of Trade Mark.

The special and distinctive word “Cuticura.”

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

Medicinal preparations, soaps, and resolvents.

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1883.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of BICKFORD, SMITH, AND COMPANY, of Tuckingmill, near Camborne, in the County of Cornwall, England, Patent Safety Fuse Manufacturers, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz.:

Description of Trade Mark.

An enlarged representation of a fuse broken away about the centre, to show two separate threads running longitudinally through it. Above the fuse are the words “Bickford’s Fuse,” and below it are the words “Two separate threads through centre of fuse.” Underneath this again is the representation of a fuse full size, and below it are the words “Actual size of ordinary fuse;” the whole being within an oblong border with pointed ends. The space enclosed by such border is cross-hatched.

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

Patent safety fuse for conveying fire to the charge used in blasting rocks, &c.

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Application for Registration of Seven Trade Marks.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1883.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of HOLMES SAMUEL CHIPMAN, of No. 9, William Street, in the City of Melbourne aforesaid, Merchant, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade marks of which the following is a description, viz.:

Description of Trade Marks.

No. 1 consists of the special and distinctive word “Hollingsworth.”

No. 2 consists of the special and distinctive word “Taylor.”

No. 3 consists of the special and distinctive word “Moline.”

No. 4 consists of the special and distinctive word “Buford.”

No. 5 consists of the special and distinctive word “Gould’s.”

No. 6 consists of the device of a compressed or oblong diamond-shaped outline, having a gap at each of its angles, and within which are the letters “CWWCO,” in combination with the word “Toledo” on the left of such outline.

No. 7 consists of the special and distinctive word “Acme.”

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

Nos. 1 and 2 to apply to horse-rakes and other agricultural and horticultural implements and machines.

Nos. 3 and 4 to apply to ploughs and other agricultural and horticultural implements and machines.

No. 5 to apply to pumps and machinery of all kinds, and parts of machinery, including agricultural and horticultural implements and machines.

No. 6 to apply to vehicles and woodwork as parts of carriages or other vehicles.

No. 7 to apply to harrows and other agricultural and horticultural implements and machines.

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1883.

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

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, produced in the colony, to be paid on quantities of not less value than fifty pounds (£50) nor more than one hundred pounds (£100) produced by any one person.

MANGANESEN AND MANGANESE-BRONZE.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be given for the first two thousand five hundred pounds’ (£2,500) worth of manganese, and a similar bonus for a like amount of manganese-bronze, produced in the colony from New Zealand ores, and sold at a fair market price in a foreign market.

MARBLE.

A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be given for the first fifteen hundred pounds’ (£1,500) worth of New Zealand marble exported from the colony, and sold in a foreign market at a price of not less than 9s. per cubic foot.

ANTIMONY.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be given for the first 250 tons of antimony regulus produced in the colony from New Zealand ores, and sold at a fair market price in a foreign market.

Conditions.

1. Notice of intention to claim any of the above bonuses must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1883.

2. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1884.

3. The first claimant of any bonus who proves to the satisfaction of the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions to be the recipient of the bonus.

4. The other conditions as to quantity, priority, quality, and value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Government.

Further information and particulars may be obtained by application at the Colonial Secretary’s Office.

WROUGHT-IRON.

A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be given for the production in New Zealand, by a direct process, of 200 tons of “iron blooms,” of marketable quality, from ore produced in New Zealand.

Conditions.

1. The bonus not to be given for any quantity less than 100 tons.

2. Notice of the intention to erect ironworks and claim the bonus must be given to the Colonial Secretary before the 31st December, 1883.

3. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st December, 1884.

4. In the event of more than one claimant giving such notice, not more than seven-tenths of the bonus may be claimed by the first producer, and not more than three-tenths by the second producer; but, if only one claimant becomes a producer on the above conditions, he may claim the whole of the bonus.

5. The iron in respect of which any bonus is claimed, and the ore from which it is manufactured, will be examined by an officer to be appointed by the Government, who may require the production of bonâ fide account-sales of quantities not less than 100 tons weight, showing that such iron has been sold at a fair market price as wrought-iron.

THOMAS DICK,