Nov. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1369

at Nelson, at two o'clock p.m., on Friday, the twentieth day
of November instant, and shall be presided over by Charles
Yates Fell, Esquire.

And I do further appoint that the number of members
necessary to constitute the first meeting of the said Board
shall be four.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this eighteenth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five.

ROBERT STOUT.

Public Vaccinators, Manai'a and Wellington Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER CLARKE, Esq., L.R.C.P. Edin.,
to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the Manai'a District; also to appoint

GEORGE GEILS KENNY, Esq., M.B., M.S., Univ. Glasg.,
to be an additional Public Vaccinator, under the said Act, for the Wellington District.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS EDWARD BALLARD
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Opunake, vice W. C. Drake, transferred. This appointment takes effect on and from the 9th instant.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the under-mentioned appointment:—

Spring Creek Rifle Volunteers.

Rev. Arthur Hermon to be Honorary Chaplain. Date of commission, 6th November, 1885.

J. BALLANCE.

Assistant Clerk of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th November, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM BELL
to be Assistant Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts at St. Bathan’s, and Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of St. Bathan’s, from the 9th instant, vice Acting-Sergeant Livingston, transferred.

Jos. A. TOLE.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th November, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

JOHN FENNELL, Esq., of Lyell, and
CHARLES KNIGHT, Esq., of Wellington,
of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the colony.

Jos. A. TOLE.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that FREDERICK EARL, of Shortland Street, Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Solicitor, has applied, on behalf of ROBERT WALKER and W. R. WALKER, of Auckland aforesaid, Kauri Gum 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 word “Uniform” printed in capital letters.

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

Kauri gum.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that Messrs. HUGHES AND GEORGE, of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Solicitors, have applied, on behalf of WILLIAM NEILSEN EWING, of Batley, Auckland, in the said Colony of New Zealand, trading as “Ewing and Company,” Fish-curers, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz.:—

Description of Trade Mark.

A label with an ornamental border, within which is a representation of Neptune standing waist-deep in the sea, holding in his hands a trident with a fish impaled on it.

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

Canned and cured fish.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Bonus for Kerosene.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th February, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus will be paid for the production of kerosene under the following conditions:—

A bonus of sixpence per gallon will be paid on kerosene produced within the colony to an extent not exceeding 50,000 gallons, in quantities of not less than 10,000 gallons at a time; the kerosene to be of a quality approved of by Government, and to be sold at a fair average market price.

Conditions.

1. Notice of intention to claim the above bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1885.
2. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1886.
3. The first claimant 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.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Bonus for Canned and Cured Fish for Export.

Treasury Department,
Wellington, 10th November, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that bonuses under “The Fisheries Encouragement Act, 1885,” as set forth in the following sections (Nos. 8, 9, and 10) of that Act, will be paid subject to the conditions named therein, and in the regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

JULIUS VOGEL.

8. In order to encourage the production and curing of fish for export, the Colonial Treasurer shall during the next seven years after the passing of this Act, without further appropriation by Parliament, pay out of the Consolidated Fund to any person who shall prepare canned and cured fish for export, and actually export the same from the colony, a bonus or bonuses upon the quantity of canned and cured fish prepared and exported by such person as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say,—

(1.) In respect of the first 200 tons avoirdupois of fish canned with or without oil, the sum of 1d. per pound, the weight of the cans not to be included in the tonnage upon which such bonus is paid;

(2.) In respect of every ton avoirdupois of fish canned as aforesaid beyond the first 200 tons, the sum of ½d. per pound, the weight of the cans not to be included in the tonnage upon which such bonus is paid;

(3.) In respect to cured fish the bonus to be paid shall be respectively ¼d. and ⅓d. a pound under similar conditions, as far as the same are applicable to those contained in the two last subsections.

9. The total tonnage upon which the Treasurer may grant bonuses as aforesaid under this Act shall not exceed 6,000 tons.

10. Every person intending to apply for the grant of a bonus shall register a special trade mark under the laws for the time being in force in New Zealand providing for the