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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 11

Member of Domain Board resigned.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1886.

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

J. L. WILSON, Esq.,
as a Member of the Kaiapoi Domain Board.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Time and Place for First Meeting of Contributors to Gisborne Hospital.

Premier's Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49
of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act,
1885," appointed Thursday, the 11th day of March next, at
7.30 o'clock p.m., to be the time, and the Courthouse, Gisborne, to be the place, for the first meeting of the contributors to the Gisborne Hospital.

ROBERT STOUT.

Time and Place for First Meeting of Contributors to Masterton Hospital.

Premier's Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49
of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act,
1885," appointed Wednesday, the 3rd day of March next, at
4 o'clock p.m., to be the time, and the Institute, Masterton, to be the place, for the first meeting of the contributors to the Masterton Hospital.

ROBERT STOUT.

Time and Place for First Meeting of Contributors to Reefton Hospital.

Premier's Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49
of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act,
1885," appointed Wednesday, the 10th day of March next, at
8 o'clock p.m., to be the time, and the Council Chambers, Reefton, to be the place, for the first meeting of contributors to the Reefton Hospital.

ROBERT STOUT.

Time and Place for First Meeting of Contributors to Dunstan District Hospital.

Premier's Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49
of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act,
1885," appointed Monday, the 8th day of March next, at 8
o'clock p.m., to be the time, and the Library Hall, Clyde, to be the place, for the first meeting of the contributors to the Dunstan District Hospital.

ROBERT STOUT.

Time and Place for First Meeting of Contributors to Arrow District Hospital.

Premier's Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49
of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act,
1885," appointed Thursday, the 11th day of March next, at
8 o'clock p.m., to be the time, and the Athenaeum Hall, at
Arrowtown, to be the place, for the first meeting of the contributors to the Arrow District Hospital.

ROBERT STOUT.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOSEPH SOLER, of Wanganui, in the Colony of New Zealand, Vineyard Proprietor, has applied 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, in the top centre of which is the stage figure of a bunch of grapes. This label may be used in any colour or combination of colours.

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

Old port, Mancanille sherry, muscat, verdeilho, hock, constantia, ginger wine, cream of burgundy, malaga, claret, chesela, sparkling champagne, sparkling moselle, sparkling hock, cyder.

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

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1886.

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

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Despatch.-"The Evidence of Commission Act, 1885" (Imperial Act).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1885.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Downing Street, 5th December, 1885.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of an Act passed during the late session of Parliament, entitled "An Act to amend the Law relating to taking Evidence by Commission in India and the Colonies, and elsewhere in Her Majesty's Dominions" (48 and 49 Vict., c. 74). The necessity for this measure was brought by the Indian Government to the notice of Her Majesty's Government; and I transmit to you a copy of a memorandum by Sir Richard Garth, the Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta, dated the 26th June, 1883, in which he points out the inconveniences which were found to arise from the state of the law as then existing.

The Act which I enclose has accordingly been passed amending the provisions of the Act 22 Vict., c. 20.

As the Act is an enabling measure, and one which relieves the Judges of Colonial Courts from certain duties imposed by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, my predecessor did not think it necessary to delay the introduction of the Bill into Parliament until the Colonial Governments had first been consulted.

I have, &c.,

The Officer Administering

FRED. STANLEY.

the Government of New Zealand.

CHAPTER 74.

AN ACT to amend the Law relating to taking Evidence by Commission in India and the Colonies, and elsewhere in Her Majesty's Dominions.

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Evidence by Commission Act, 1885."

Power to Courts to nominate Examiner in civil proceedings.

2. Where in any civil proceeding in any Court of competent jurisdiction an order for the examination of any witness or person has been made, and a commission, mandamus, order, or request for the examination of such witness or person is addressed to any Court, or to any Judge of a Court, in India or the colonies, or elsewhere in Her Majesty's dominions, beyond the jurisdiction of the Court ordering the examination, it shall be lawful for such Court, or the Chief Judge thereof, or such Judge, to nominate some fit person to take such examination, and any deposition or examination taken before an Examiner so nominated shall be admissible