Feb. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 253

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and
Charges in force on New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with section 144 of "The Public Works
Act, 1882," I, Patrick Alphonsus Buckley, the Minister
acting for the Minister for Public Works, do hereby make
the following alterations and additions to the scale of
charges, to come into force on and after the 23rd day of
February, 1885:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.
WELLINGTON SECTION.

Bark in bags or bundles, from Wellington Wharf to Nga-
hauranga, 3s. 3d. per ton.

WELLINGTON, WANGANUI, AND NEW PLYMOUTH SECTIONS.

Cheese, packed, consigned directly from cheese factories
for foreign export, in consignments of not less than one ton,
will be charged at the classified rates for Class D.

PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.

Beetroot. Owners' risk . . . . . . F
Cheese, packed, consigned directly from cheese fac-
tories for foreign export, in consignments of not less
than one ton . . . . . . D

As witness my hand this eighteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.)

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 16th February, 1885.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders
is published for general information.
EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

TAKAKA ROAD BRIDGE CONTRACT.

Accepted.
Manson Brothers and R. Manson, Takaka .. 3,308 10 4

Declined.
McKenzie and Sutherland, Wellington .. 3,612 5 0
H. Daulby and Co., Dunedin .. 3,635 8 0
Mace and Bassett, Belgrave .. 4,287 16 8
H. Baigent, Nelson .. 4,638 8 3
J. J. O'Brien, Auckland .. 5,815 0 0
A. Watson, Auckland .. 6,773 0 0

South Sea Islands.

STEAM SERVICE BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND AND TONGA,
SAMOA, AND TAHITI.

SEALED tenders will be received at the General Post
Office, Wellington, until noon of Tuesday, the 31st
March next, for the performance, once every two months,
for a period of two years, of a steam service from Dunedin
by way of Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier, Auckland, and
Russell to Tonga, Samoa, and Tahiti, or to Tahiti, Samoa,
and Tonga; back to Auckland, and on to Dunedin via
Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton.

It will be optional with the successful tenderer to call at
Russell and Rarotonga for coaling purposes.

Tenderers to state the rate of freight on colonial produce
and live stock for shipment to the islands.

The names, tonnage, and horse-power of the vessels to be
employed in the service to be stated.

The service to commence from Dunedin or Port Chalmers
on or about the 1st June next.

A deposit equal to 10 per cent. of the amount of the
tender, by marked cheque, made payable to the Postmaster-
General of New Zealand, must accompany each tender.

Tenders to be marked "Tender for Island Service," and
addressed to the Postmaster-General.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1885.

New Zealand Postal Telegraphs.

Head Office,
Wellington, 5th February, 1885.

TENDERS.—The Postmaster-General and Electric Tele-
graph Commissioner is prepared to receive tenders up
to 12 o'clock on the 31st day of July, 1885, at the General
Post Office, Wellington, addressed to the Superintendent,
Post and Telegraph Department, for the supply and delivery
of ten million telegraph forms, to be printed in New Zealand.
Specifications and samples can be seen at any Post or Tele-
graph Office in the colony.

By order.
C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Government Life Insurance Agency opened.

Government Life Insurance Association,
Wellington, 12th February, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that an agency of this associa-
tion has been opened at the following Post Office:—
WAIORONGOMAI, Auckland.
D. M. LUCKIE,
Acting General Manager.

Officiating Ministers for 1885.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1885.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled
"The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an Officiat-
ing Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published
for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend James Anderson Dawson.
Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

[This name is in substitution for the name "James C.
Dawson," which appeared in Gazette No. 7, of the 23rd
January, 1885.]

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for Distant Night-Signals.
Charles Gunerius Evensen, of Auckland, New
Zealand, Carpenter, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of the said invention; and I have appointed
Tuesday, the 5th day of May next, at 11 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 20th day of April next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said appli-
cation, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the
same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1385.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 16th February, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention to be known as the "Acme
Automatic Barbed-wire-making Machine."
Edward Hughes Elliott, Robert Stansell, and John
Rainbow Stansell, all of Timaru, New Zealand, Barbed-wire
Manufacturers, have deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the
5th day of May next, at 11 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 20th day of April next, at this office, parti-
culars in writing of their objections to the said application,
otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1386.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—SYDNEY ALFRED WANT, of Sydney, in the
Colony of New South Wales, an Attorney, Solicitor,
and Proctor of the Supreme Court of the said colony, has
been appointed this day, by His Honour the Chief Justice,
a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in
the said colony, under section 4 of "The Commissioners of
the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of taking
acknowledgments of married women under any Act or law
in force in the Colony of New Zealand requiring such ac-
knowledgments to be made or taken.

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court,
Wellington, 12th February, 1885.