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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1]

Agent of Public Trustee appointed.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1885.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
ROBERT HASWELL, Esq.,
has been appointed an Agent of the Public Trustee at Kai-koura, vice P. F. Wayland, Esq., deceased.
R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.

Acting German Consul at Christchurch.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the Imperial German Consul at Christchurch (Dr. von Haast) has reported that he has nominated
WILLIAM HENRY SIMMS, Esq.,
of Christchurch, for the office of Acting Consul for the German Empire, during the absence from the colony of the Consul, and that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognize Mr. Simms provisionally in that capacity.
P. A. BUCKLEY.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that Messrs. W. AND G. TURNBULL AND Co., of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, General Importers, have applied, on behalf of HORACE NORGROVE, of Picton, in the said colony, Fishcurer, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz.:

Description of Trade Mark.
The words “Picton Fish Curing Co.,” printed on labels of various sizes and colours attached to tins and other packages, and stencilled on cases, containing herring and other fish.

Nature of the Article to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.
Tinned and cured fish.
P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize
Mr. H. B. VOGEL
to frank, during the absence of the Hon. Sir Julius Vogel from Wellington, letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.
JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize
The ASSISTANT ENGINEER, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, WESTPORT DISTRICT,
to frank telegrams on the public service.
JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Incorporation of Masterton Hospital as a Separate Institution.

Premier's Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council directs it to be notified, in terms of section 43 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” that he has received a petition from the Committee of Management of the Masterton Hospital, to which is annexed a verified list signed by 189 persons in terms of section 38 of the said Act, praying that the Masterton Hospital may be incorporated as a separate institution; and that if no counter-petition, signed by an equal or greater number of such persons, shall have been delivered at the office of the Colonial Secretary within one month after the publication of this notice, or if the District Board shall not have lodged with the Colonial Secretary within the same time an objection to such petition, the Governor in Council will declare the said hospital to be a separate institution under the said Act.
P. A. BUCKLEY,
(in the absence of the Premier.)

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 avoirdu pois 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 avoirdu pois 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 ¾d. and ½d. 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 registration of trade-marks, such trade-mark to be used for all cured and canned fish to be prepared for export by such person, and shall, within six years after the passing of this Act, give notice to the Treasurer of his intention to export canned and cured fish with a view to applying for a bonus, and shall append to such notice a copy of such trade-mark; and all cases, barrels, or cans containing fish cured and canned for export by any such person shall, before exportation, be marked with the trade mark so registered by him, and no part of any such bonus shall be payable except in respect of cases, barrels, or cans so marked.

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Goldfields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1885.

REWARDS are offered for the discovery of new goldfields, upon the conditions set forth hereunder, payable out of the parliamentary vote of £2,500.
W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. THE maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved discovery of a new goldfield in accordance with these conditions is £500; but, if the total sum claimed as rewards in any one year exceeds the parliamentary vote, the amount available only will be divided equally.

2. The newly-discovered goldfield, if in alluvial ground, must be situated not less than ten miles from the nearest alluvial gold-workings, or, if in quartz, not less than five miles from the nearest existing quartz-mines.

3. No grant will be paid upon any application until it shall have been proved that not less than 20,000 ounces of gold have been extracted from the new goldfield within two years from the registration of the discovery, if in alluvial workings, and, if in quartz-workings, proof of a similar yield from this source within three years from such registration will be required.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being desirous of obtaining a reward, shall immediately forward a written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to the Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within which such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or Resident Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an application for reward.

5. No prospecting is allowed upon Native land without the approval in writing of the Native Minister, or of some one appointed by him in that behalf. Prospectors going upon Native land without the consent of the owners are liable to the penalties imposed by the Acts relating to goldfields, and will forfeit all claim to reward,