Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1523

INVERCARGILL TO DUNEDIN.

Goods of A, B, C, and D from Invercargill to Dunedin will be charged A and B, £1 5s. 6d. per ton; C and D, 17s. 6d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 10cwt. Any less quantity will be carried as such minimum, or at the scale for small lots, Part III., computed on the classified rates.

As witness my hand, this tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Geological Survey Department.

Colonial Laboratory,
Wellington, 8th December, 1887.

BY direction of the Hon. the Minister of Mines, the following amended scale of fees will be charged for analyses performed in the Colonial Laboratory for private persons and departments other than the Geological Survey. These charges to come into force from this date.

SCALE OF FEES FOR ANALYSES.
For each Sample.
£ s. d.

Qualitative analyses and simple determinations.. 0 10 6
Quantitative analyses—
Coals, partial .. .. .. .. 1 1 0
" complete .. .. .. .. 3 3 0
Minerals and rocks, partial .. .. .. 1 1 0
" exhaustive .. .. .. 5 5 0
Metals and ores, partial .. .. .. 0 5 0*
" exhaustive .. .. .. 1 0 0
Waters, sanitary analysis .. .. .. 1 1 0
" general analysis .. .. .. 2 2 0
" special for manufacturers .. .. 3 3 0
Mineral waters, partial .. .. .. 2 2 0
" complete .. .. .. 5 5 0
(Special fees for determination of gasses present.)
Articles of food and drink—
Bread or flour, analysis for alum .. .. 1 1 0
Milk, examination for water alone .. .. 0 10 6
" complete general analysis .. .. 1 1 0
Butter, complete analysis .. .. .. 1 1 0
Tea, coffee, and cocoa, general analysis .. 1 1 0
Wine, beer, and spirits, determination of alcohol 0 10 6
Wine, beer, and spirits, complete commercial analysis .. .. .. .. 2 2 0
Secretions, &c., medical analysis—
General analysis, microscopic and chemical .. 1 1 0
Complete analysis .. .. .. .. 3 3 0
Drugs, chemicals, &c.—
For importers’ purposes .. .. .. 1 1 0
Complete analysis .. .. .. .. 3 3 0
Poisons—
Detection of mineral poison.. .. .. 1 1 0
Detection of alkaloids and vegetable poisons .. 2 2 0
Complete determination of poisons in organic mixtures .. .. .. .. 5 5 0
Soils—
Partial analysis .. .. .. .. 1 1 0
Complete analysis of soil and subsoil .. 5 5 0
Sheep-dips, artificial manures, and food stuffs—
Partial for adulteration .. .. .. 1 1 0
Complete analysis .. .. .. .. 3 3 0
Miscellaneous according to scale.

• This fee must accompany the application for analysis.

JAMES HECTOR,
Director.

Members of New Zealand Institute elected.

Colonial Museum,
Wellington, 8th December, 1887.

THE following gentlemen have been elected Governors of the New Zealand Institute by the various incorporated societies for the year 1888, in conformity with clause 7 of “The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867:”—

JAMES MCKERROW, Esq., F.R.A.S.
THOMAS KIRK, Esq., F.L.S.
FRANCIS BLAKE HUTCHINSON, Esq., M.R.C.S.E.

JAMES HECTOR,
Manager.

Steam Service to certain Places and Ports on the West Coast of the Middle Island South of Hokitika.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1887.

SEALED tenders will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until noon of Thursday, the 22nd December instant, for the performance of one or the other of the following alternative steam services:—

Between Hokitika and Okarito, Bruce Bay, Paringa, Haast River (or Okuru), and Jackson’s Bay, once every three months; or

Between Hokitika and Okarito, Bruce Bay, Paringa, Haast River (or Okuru), Jackson’s Bay, with the addition of calling at Big Bay, Martin’s Bay, Milford Sound, and Dusky Sound, once every three months.

Tenderers to send in offers for one year and also for two years.

The service to be performed in accordance with a timetable to be furnished by the Postmaster-General, and to commence on a date to be fixed hereafter by the Postmaster-General.

Tenderers to state the names, tonnage, and horse-power of the vessels to be employed in the service, and also the rate for passengers, and the freight for ordinary cargo and for live stock.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. Tenderers to be addressed to the Hon. the Postmaster-General, and indorsed, “Tender for West Coast Ports Steam Service.”

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1887.—Notice No. 27.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th December, 1887.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend George Gillan.
The Reverend Michael Egan.

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

Trade Union registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 13th December, 1887.

THE Grey Valley Coal-miners’ Association, situated at Taylorville, is registered as a trade union under “The Trade Union Act, 1878,” this 13th day of December, 1887.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of a Composition for paving Streets and other Places.

WILLIAM CRAIG, of No. 222, Crown Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Miner, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 13th day of March 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 February 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. 2683.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Iron Standard to be used in the Erection of Wire Fencing, and to be called “Austin’s A B C Standard.”

JAMES JOHN AUSTIN, of Raglan, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th day of March 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 29th day of February 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. 2684.