vernor has this day revoked the notice bearing date the 8th
February, 1882, respecting clean and infected sheep districts.
It is further notified that, under the above-named authority, His Excellency the Governor has this day declared the
Sheep Districts of Napier, Rangitikei, Canterbury, and Otago,
as defined in the Proclamations of the 24th December, 1878,
23rd September, 1879, 26th January, 1880, 2nd November,
1880, 19th March, 1883, 19th March, 1883, and 26th January,
1884, to be clean sheep districts; and the Sheep Districts of
Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson,
and Marlborough, as defined in the same Proclamations, to
be infected sheep districts.

THOMAS DICK.

Colonial Industries.—Portland Cement.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1883.

WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up
to noon on 31st March, 1884, from persons who are
willing to contract for the supply and delivery of one hundred
tons of Portland Cement. The cement to be manufactured
in the Colony of New Zealand, and to be delivered at any of
the under-mentioned places, viz., Auckland, Wellington,
Christchurch, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, or Inver-
cargill. Tenders to be addressed to the Minister for Public
Works, and to be marked outside “Tender for Supply of 100
tons of Portland Cement.” Specifications and conditions
may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Welling-
ton, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill. The lowest or
any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

E. MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice to Mariners, No. 5 of 1884.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th February, 1884.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, is
published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GEELONG LIGHTSHIP.

Pilots, masters of vessels, and others are hereby informed
that on the 18th February, 1884, the lightship, now moored
opposite the Bird Rock on the port side of the channel
leading into Geelong, will be removed for the purpose of
undergoing repairs, and that a temporary lightship will be
substituted therefor until further notice.

The temporary light will be of the same character as here-
tofore, but will be elevated 17 feet in lieu of 27 feet above
the sea-level, and may be seen in clear weather from the
deck of a vessel about six miles distant.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Engineer in Charge, Ports and Harbours.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 15th January, 1884.

Approving and appointing Bonding Warehouses.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this
purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation
Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouses
to be warehouses for the reception of goods under bond,
namely:—

Port of Invercargill.

The cellar and a portion of the ground and first floors of
a brick building roofed with iron, situate in Esk Street, on
Allotments D and E of Section 12, Block I., to be known as
McPHERSON'S BOND.

Port of Christchurch.

A concrete and brick building roofed with slate, consisting
of a cellar and two floors, situate in Worcester Street, on
Lots 8 and 9, Section 718, to be known as
THE VICTORIA BOND.

Port of Thames.

A portion of the ground floor of a wooden building roofed
with iron, situate in Pollen Street, on Allotment 143, to be
known as
EHRENFRIED'S BOND.

Port of Dunedin.

Part of the basement of a stone and brick building roofed
with slate, situate on Section No. 21, Subdivision No. 1,

Crawford Street Block of Otago Harbour Board endowments,
to be known as

THE UNION BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of February, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-four.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner's Order No. 197.]

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 18th February, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize
The INSPECTOR of DAIRY PRODUCE FACTORIES
to frank, free from the prepayment of postage, letters and
parcels, and telegrams, on the public service.

THOMAS DICK,
(for the Postmaster-General.)

Telephone Exchanges to be open Day and Night.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 6th February, 1884.

PROVIDED a sufficient number of private-house sub-
scribers can be obtained, it is proposed to keep the
telephone exchanges throughout the colony open day and
night. The subscription has been reduced as follows:—

Per annum,
payable
quarterly, in
advance.

For hire of each set of instruments, and wire
from office or private residence for any dis-
tance within half a mile of the Telegraph
Office, for the first year, commencing on the
1st day of January, April, July, or October,
after the date of connection
For every year after the first
For every additional quarter of a mile, or portion
of a quarter, for the first year, commencing
on the 1st day of January, April, July, or
October, after the date of connection
For every year after the first

Intending subscribers should make early application to the
Officer in Charge of the Telegraph Office, from whom the
necessary application forms and full particulars can be
obtained.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Member of House of Representatives for Selwyn elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 21st February, 1884.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ
issued by him on the 19th day of January last for the
election of a Member to serve in the House of Representa-
tives for the electoral district hereinafter specified, and by
the indorsement on such writ it appears that the under-men-
tioned gentleman has been duly elected Member for the said
district, viz.:—

For the District of Selwyn.
EDWARD WAKEFIELD.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1884.

PATENT for an Improved Portable Receptacle for con-
taining Frozen Meat during Conveyance.

JOHN SMITH, of Wanganui, New Zealand, has deposited
at this office a specification of the said invention; and I
have appointed Thursday, the 26th day of June next, at 11
o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said applica-
tion and all objections thereto; and I require all persons hav-
ing an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to
leave, on or before the 11th day of June next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said applica-
tion, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.