May 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 877

Waima.

Waimapu.

Katikati.

Wangamoa.

Stoke.

Dunback.

Palmerston.

Matakanui and Manuherikia.

Edwd. T. CONOLLY.

Clerk in Official Assignee's Office appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th May, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MILLAR EYES

to be a Clerk in the office of the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, at Christchurch, from the 1st proximo.

Edwd. T. CONOLLY.

Auditor for Woolston Town District appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th May, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by warrant dated the 17th instant, has been pleased to appoint

JOHN OLLIVIER, Esq.,

to be Auditor of the accounts of the Woolston Town District Board.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Auditor for Opotiki Town District appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th May, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by warrant dated the 17th instant, has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT SMELT BUSH, Esq.,

to be Auditor of the accounts of the Opotiki Town District Board.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Auditor for County of Whakatane appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th May, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by warrant dated the 17th instant, has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT SMELT BUSH, Esq.,

to be Auditor for the County of Whakatane.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th May, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

THOMAS DICK.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of ROBERT HARPER and COMPANY, of No. 12, Flinders Lane East, in the City of Melbourne aforesaid, Merchants, 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 “Pearl.”

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

Rice, thus, “Pearl Rice.”

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Private School under “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882.”

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1884.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by section 8 of “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” I, Thomas Dick, the Minister of Education, do hereby notify that St. Joseph’s Providence School, situate in Hill Street, Wellington, is approved by me as a private school within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, for the reception of female children of the Roman Catholic faith.

THOMAS DICK.

Despatch.—Exempting Norwegian Ships from Remeasurement.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 27th May, 1884.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information. The Order in Council of the 17th May, 1876, referred to therein, was published in the New Zealand Gazette for 1876, page 660.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Downing Street, 28th February, 1884.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of the Queen in Council, dated the 2nd February last, exempting Norwegian ships from remeasurement for tonnage in this country, and revoking the Order in Council of the 17th May, 1876, enclosed in the Earl of Carnarvon’s Circular Despatch of the 13th July of that year. I have, &c.,

DERBY.

The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 2nd day of February, 1884.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act 1862,” it is enacted that, “whenever it is made to appear