SEPT. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1253

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1887, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 31st January, 1887.

A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club, whose membership is composed of a section of the community only, and if within a borough it must be open to the public free of charge. The receipts for the year must not have been less than £2, exclusive of moneys received from endowments, or from Government, or from Borough or County Councils, or for special building purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of any room, or building, or land belonging to the institution, in respect of none of which will subsidy be allowed. The net proceeds of concerts, lectures, or other entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the library will be regarded as voluntary contributions. A subsidy will not be given to more than one library in the same town.

A nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each library’s receipts, and the vote of £4,000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented, but so as that no institution shall receive more than £50.

Application to share in the distribution must be by means of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made, and must be accompanied by a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1886; and such declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose, which form shall be as follows:—

DECLARATION.

I [name], of [place of abode], [occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary or Treasurer] of the [name of institution]; that during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1886, the receipts of the aforesaid institution for the maintenance of the library only was as follows: From rates levied by a local governing body under “The Public Libraries Act, 1869,” pounds shillings and pence; from the subscriptions of members, pounds shillings and pence; and from voluntary contributions other than members’ subscriptions, pounds shillings and pence. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the information hereinafter furnished by me in the appendix hereto is correct in every particular; that the abstract of accounts is a true statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1886; and that by the rules of the institution admission to the reading-room is open to the public free of charge.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 188 , before me—

Justice of the Peace,
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public.]

[NOTE.—The words relating to free admission may be struck out if the library is not in a borough. The words in brackets are not part of the form, but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

Copies of the form of application may be obtained from the Secretary for Education, Wellington, and from the Secretary of any Education Board.

ROBERT STOUT.

Te Makarini Scholarships.

TWO Scholarships of the yearly value of £35 each, to be held at the Native College, Te Aute, Hawke’s Bay, are offered for competition to Maori youths, on the conditions laid down in the Regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1884. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 20th and 21st December, 1886.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next,

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 19th July, 1886.

Post Office Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1886.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Post Office Savings Bank Office will be opened at

ELLESMERE (Chief Office, Christchurch),

from the 1st proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1886.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1886.

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 Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Michael Joseph McManus.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Tenders for Telegraph Messengers’ Overcoats.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1886.

TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until noon of the 16th day of October next, for the supply and delivery to the Post and Telegraph Storekeeper, Wellington, of 100 Telegraph Messengers’ Overcoats, of colonial manufacture both in respect to the material and make.

Specifications, as well as sample of cloth, style of overcoat, &c., may be seen at the Chief Post Offices, Thames, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Nelson, Blenheim, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Timaru, Oamaru, and Invercargill, and at the Telegraph Offices, Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

Tenders to be addressed to the Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, Wellington, and indorsed outside, “Tender for Telegraph Messengers’ Overcoats.”

By order.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvement in Chaff-cutter.

GEORGE METHVEN, of Goodall Street, Caversham, Taieri, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 11th day of January 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 27th day of December next, at this office, particulars 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. 2024.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in the Composition of Terra-cotta Timber.