APRIL 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 531

Volunteer Officers promoted and appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1886.

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

Hawera Rifle Volunteers.
Alfred Trimble to be Captain. Date of commission, 9th November, 1885.

Caversham Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant William Deans Milne to be Captain. Date of commission, 3rd March, 1886.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Defence Minister.)

Services of Cadet Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1886.

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

High School (Dunedin) Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 10th April, 1886.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Defence Minister.)

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers :—

Dunedin Cavalry Volunteers.
Lieutenant George Spencer Smith. Date of resignation, 22nd March, 1886.

E Battery of Artillery.
Lieutenant George Mitchell Douglas. Date of resignation, 19th March, 1886.

Wakari Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Andrew Gardiner. Date of resignation, 5th April, 1886.

Richmond Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant George Johnston Webster. Date of resignation, 5th April, 1886.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Defence Minister.)

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th April, 1886.

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

WILLOUGHBY BRASSEY, Esq., of Wanganui,
DONALD GOLLAN, Esq., of Napier, and
JOHN ALEXANDER SMITH, Esq., of Napier,

of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the colony.

Jos. A. TOLE.

Time and Place for First Meeting of Contributors to Wellington Ladies’ Christian Association.

Premier’s Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” appointed Friday, the 30th day of April instant, at 3.30 o’clock p.m., to be the time, and the Girls’ Club, Manners Street, Wellington, to be the place, for the first meeting of the contributors to the Wellington Ladies’ Christian Association.

ROBERT STOUT.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 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.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of HOLMES SAMUEL CHIPMAN, of No. 54, Margaret Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Merchant, 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 “Kismet.”

Nature of the Articles to which it is intended such Trade Marks shall apply.
Watches, clocks, and all other horological instruments.

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

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of HENRY BROOKS and ROBERT COCHRANE, trading under the name or style of “Henry Brooks and Company,” at No. 70, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the City of London, in England, and at No. 359, George Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, and also trading under the name or style of “Brooks, Robinson, and Company,” at No. 39, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Merchants and Exporters, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” a trade mark of which the following is a description, viz. :—

Description of Trade Mark.
The device of an eight-pointed star.

Nature of the Articles to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.
Wooden mouldings such as for picture-frames, for mouldings for rooms, and for other purposes.

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

Despatch.—Acts of 1885 assented to.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1886.

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

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(New Zealand, No. 14.)
Downing Street, 13th February, 1886.

SIR,—I have the honour to inform you that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to the following Acts of the Legislature of New Zealand, transcripts of which accompanied your Despatch No. 117, of the 23rd October last:—

49° VICTORIA.

No. 1. “An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first day of March, One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.”

No. 2. “An Act to amend ‘The Patents Act, 1883.’”

No. 3. “An Act for removing Doubts as to the Validity of certain Marriages solemnized in the Provincial Districts of Canterbury and Otago respectively.”

No. 4. “An Act to amend ‘The Mercantile Law Act, 1880.’”

No. 5. “An Act to extend the Provisions of ‘The Cemeteries Act, 1882.’”

No. 6. “An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first day of March, One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.”

No. 7. “An Act to amend ‘The Public Works Act, 1882.’”

No. 8. “An Act to amend ‘The Industrial Schools Act, 1882.’”

No. 9. “An Act to confer on Resident Magistrates the Jurisdiction vested in District Judges by ‘The Adoption of Children Act, 1881.’”

No. 10. “An Act relating to Post Office Postal Notes.”

No. 11. “An Act to amend ‘The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1881.’”

No. 12. “An Act in Amendment of ‘The Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881,’ and for the Better Suppression of Betting.”