Mar. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 365

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Campbell Riding, County of Manawatu.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1888.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Manawatu County Council, is published in accordance with “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

G. F. RICHARDSON,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

RESULT OF POLL UNDER “THE LOCAL BODIES’ LOANS ACT, 1886.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the following is the result of the poll taken on the 10th instant on the proposal to borrow the sum of £1,000 for road-work in the Campbell Riding:—
Total number of ratepayers who voted, 39; in favour of the proposal, 34 ratepayers with 34 votes; against the proposal, 4 ratepayers with 4 votes; informal, 1.
As the required number did not vote in favour of the proposal, I therefore declare the proposal rejected.
ROBERT B. MCKENZIE,
Carnarvon, 13th March, 1888. Chairman.

Progress of the Imperial Institute.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1888.

THE following memorandum is published for general information.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES, AND INDIA.

Memorandum for the Information of Subscribers.

THE financial prospects of the Institute have made very satisfactory progress since the proposal for its establishment was brought to the notice of the public by the meetings held at St. James’s Palace and the Mansion House in January last.

The funds received and definitely promised, at this date, for the foundation and maintenance of the Institute amount to over £400,000. This sum is represented by the following contributions, stated approximately: From different parts of the United Kingdom, £220,000; from the Colonies, £80,000; and from the Indian Empire, £100,000.

More than two-thirds of the full value of the subscriptions notified have been received and invested.

Returns have as yet been received from some of the colonies only. In reference to the contributions which are being received from this source, it is especially interesting to note that many of the smallest of Her Majesty’s Possessions (e.g., the Island of Ascension and the Bechuanaland and Fingoe Territories) have, by the amount of their offerings and by the manner in which these are subscribed, furnished valuable testimony of the active interest taken by the inhabitants of those distant countries in the establishment of an institution designed to bring all parts of her empire into intimate touch with each other.

From the larger colonies information is received from time to time that practical proof is being furnished of the sympathy of the inhabitants with the welfare of this undertaking. As illustrating this, it may be stated that a contribution of £2,853 4s. 4d. has been received from New Zealand, which is composed of subscriptions made by inhabitants of the colony, and is entirely distinct from the grant proposed to be made by the New Zealand Government.

In the Indian Empire contributions from native princes and through local committees there formed continue to be received, and the anticipations respecting the prominent part which India would take in the establishment of the Institute are being fully realised.

In the United Kingdom many of the committees which were formed last spring in various counties, cities, boroughs, burghs, and townships are still continuing, and with success, to apply their organization to the increase of the funds of the Institute.

His Royal Highness, the President of the Institute, has considered it desirable to enlarge the Organizing Committee from time to time by the additional appointment of several eminent men who have evinced readiness to afford active support to the undertaking, and to give their gratuitous services in aid of developing the scheme of government and the sphere of action of the Institute.

The constitution of the representative governing body which His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales desires to see at the head of the Institute has already received careful consideration on the part of the Organizing Committee. A preliminary outline of the probable mode of its construction was published some time since, with the object of inviting suggestions from public or official sources. Several have already been received; they will be carefully considered when, at the termination of the recess, the committee devote their attention to the completion of this part of their task.

Preliminary steps are being taken in view of obtaining, at an early date, a royal charter of incorporation for the Institute.

His Royal Highness has appointed Lord Herschell, the Earl of Rosebery, and Sir John Rose, Bart., Trustees to the Imperial Institute, and arrangements are being made to invest in the names of these trustees, and in a suitable manner, a proportion of the funds subscribed, to form the nucleus of an “Endowment Fund,” to which it is confidently expected that important additions will be received from private sources.

The Royal Commission of the Great Exhibition of 1851 having made to the Imperial Institute a grant of land at South Kensington, consisting of about six acres, with the possibility of additions thereto should the work of the Institute demand increased accommodation, the foundation-stone of the building designed by T. Collcutt, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., was laid by Her Majesty the Queen on the 4th of July last. Her Majesty’s subsequent donation of £1,000 to the funds of the Institute affords an additional and most gratifying testimony of the interest taken by the Queen in the success of an undertaking designed, by His Royal Highness the Founder of the Institute, to accomplish the great work, initiated by the illustrious Prince Consort, of cementing the bonds of intimate relationship and co-operation between every class of Her Majesty’s subjects, through their devotion to the establishment and maintenance of unity of operation between all branches of manufactures, commerce, and education, and between all cultivators of science and the arts. The brilliant success of the ceremonial which, on the 4th July, was witnessed by a concourse of over 10,000, afforded an interesting record of public sympathy with the foundation of this national memorial of Her Majesty’s Jubilee.

The first steps towards the erection of the main buildings of the Institute have been taken; a contract has been entered into for the construction of its foundations, and the work will be commenced forthwith. The details of construction of the New Road, which will connect Queen’s Gate and Exhibition Road along the frontage of the Imperial Institute, are in course of settlement.

As some considerable time must elapse before the Institute buildings can be occupied, it is under consideration to commence as soon as practicable, and to gradually develop, certain important branches of the work of the Institute which may be conducted in temporary offices, such as the organization of an intelligence department in connection with the colonies and India, bearing special reference to commerce and emigration.

F. A. ABEL,
Organizing Secretary.

1, Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.,
October, 1887.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse for the Manufacturing of Perfumery, &c.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned premises to be a warehouse or place of security for the manufacture therein of perfumery and other articles in which spirit is a necessary ingredient.

Port of Wellington.

Portion of a building constructed of wood and iron, situated on Town Acre No. 206, having entrance on right-of-way off Old Customhouse Street, City of Wellington, to be known as

GREASE’S PERFUMERY BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

GEO. FISHER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 296.]

Notice to Owners of Native Land under “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882.”

“TE Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” me te Ture Whakatikatika i taua Ture.

Ki te tangata nana, ki nga tangata ranei na ratou nga whenua kua whakahuatia i roto i nga rooru whakaatu i nga utu o nga whenua Maori, kua tukua atu nei ki nga poari takiwa e mau nei nga ingoa i roto i te Kupu Apiti ki tenei, i raro i nga tikanga o nga Ture kua whakahuatia i runga ake nei me era atu Ture katoa e pa ana e whai tikanga ana.

NOTEMEA kua tukua mai he tono ki ahau Te Minita Whakahaere i nga Moni o Niu Tireni, e mau nei toko ingoa i raro