April 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 445

Progress-payments for Exported Fish.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 24th September, 1886.

WITH reference to the notification in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th November, 1885, respecting the payment of bonuses to persons who prepare canned and cured fish for export under regulations published on the same date, it is hereby notified that progress-payments on account of such bonuses, claimed in accordance with those regulations, will now be made by this department. Claims to be for quantities not less than one ton net weight, and to be sent through the Collector of Customs at the port from which the fish was exported.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Bonus for Canned and Cured Fish for Export.

Treasury Department,
Wellington, 10th November, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that bonuses under "The Fisheries Encouragement Act, 1885," as set forth in the following sections (Nos. 8, 9, and 10) of that Act, will be paid subject to the conditions named therein, and in the regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

JULIUS VOGEL.

8. In order to encourage the production and curing of fish for export, the Colonial Treasurer shall during the next seven years after the passing of this Act, without further appropriation by Parliament, pay out of the Consolidated Fund to any person who shall prepare canned and cured fish for export, and actually export the same from the colony, a bonus or bonuses upon the quantity of canned and cured fish prepared and exported by such person as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say,--

(1.) In respect of the first 200 tons avoirdupois of fish canned with or without oil, the sum of 1d. per pound, the weight of the cans not to be included in the tonnage upon which such bonus is paid ;

(2.) In respect of every ton avoirdupois of fish canned as aforesaid beyond the first 200 tons, the sum of ½d. per pound, the weight of the cans not to be included in the tonnage upon which such bonus is paid ;

(3.) In respect to cured fish the bonus to be paid shall be respectively ¼d. and ⅛d. a pound under similar conditions, as far as the same are applicable to those contained in the two last subsections.

9. The total tonnage upon which the Treasurer may grant bonuses as aforesaid under this Act shall not exceed 6,000 tons.

10. Every person intending to apply for the grant of a bonus shall register a special trade-mark under the laws for the time being in force in New Zealand providing for the registration of trade-marks, such trade-mark to be used for all cured and canned fish to be prepared for export by such person, and shall, within six years after the passing of this Act, give notice to the Treasurer of his intention to export canned and cured fish with a view to applying for a bonus, and shall append to such notice a copy of such trade-mark; and all cases, barrels, or cans containing fish cured and canned for export by any such person shall, before exportation, be marked with the trade-mark so registered by him, and no part of any such bonus shall be payable except in respect of cases, barrels, or cans so marked.

Officiating Ministers for 1888.—Notice No. 11.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1888.

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 :—

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend James Johnston, B.A.

Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Reverend Herbert E. Potter.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agencies opened at Dunsandel and Ellesmere, Canterbury.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 6th April, 1888.

AGENCIES of the above department will be opened at the
Post Offices, DUNSANDEL AND ELLESMERE, CANTERBURY,
as from the 9th April, 1888.

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1888.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in the Method of extracting Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, or other Metals from the Ore or Material containing the same, and in the Appliances therefor.

WILLIAM STEED, of Roseworthy, South Australia, Licensed Victualler, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention ; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 30th day of October 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 15th day of October 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. 2906.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1888.

NO. 2902.—JOSEPH SPEIGHT, of Kirwee, Canterbury, New Zealand, Contractor, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for destroying twitch-grass, to be called "Speight's Patent Twitch-Exterminator."

No. 2903.—JOHN SKERMAN, of Wellington, New Zealand, Coppersmith, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved siphon-cistern applicable to waterclosets.

No. 2904.—JOHN SCRIMGEOUR and JAMES SCRIMGEOUR, both of Stanmore, near Sydney, New South Wales, General Contractors, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved dust-bin and orderly for streets.

No. 2905.—WILLIAM H. LEININGER, of Oakland, United States of America, and JOHN ROSS MACKENZIE, of William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Merchant, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved appliance for forcing a volume of smoke into burrows.

No. 2907.—JAMES KNIGHT VAIL, of Whangarei, Auckland, New Zealand, Tailor, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for curing and healing wounds, sores, bruises, and swellings, called "Vail's Safe Cure."

No. 2908.—REUBEN WITHELL, of Brookside, in the County of Selwyn, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mechanic, has deposited a specification of an invention for improvements in butter-churns, to be called "Oscillation Dashers and Butter-screen."

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 7th day of August next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said applications and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of any such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 23rd day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to any of the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Governor of Auckland College and Grammar School re-elected.

Board of Education,
Auckland, 5th April, 1888.

NOTICE.—In accordance with "The Auckland College and Grammar School Act, 1877," and with the regulations thereunder for the election of Governors by the Board of Education for the District of Auckland, I hereby notify that, at a meeting of the said Board, held this day,

SAMUEL LUKE, Esq.,
was duly re-elected a Governor of the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act.

J. H. UPTON,
Chairman of Meeting.