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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

Notice to Mariners, No. 9 of 1888.

NELSON HARBOUR.
Marine Department
Wellington, N.Z., 18th May, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given that the signal staff at Nelson has been moved from the Port Hill to a position on the Boulder Bank eighty yards S.W. ¼ W. from the lighthouse.

The bar and danger signals will be shown therefrom on and after Saturday, the 19th instant.

GEO. FISHER,
(For the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.)

Notice to Mariners, No. 10 of 1888.

POSITION OF MINE-FIELD, WELLINGTON HARBOUR.
Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 23rd May, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given that all waters inside of a line drawn from the outer rock off Gordon Point, Wellington Harbour, in a S.S.E. direction, for a distance of 7 cables, and a line from thence to shore, in a W.S.W. direction, a distance of 3 cables, as marked by four black cask-buoys, are now used as a torpedo mine-field. All vessels are therefore cautioned against getting within the above-described limits.

GEO. FISHER,
(For the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.)

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested; I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do, by this order under my hand, revoke and annul the appointment of the under-mentioned warehouse for the reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely:—

Port of Lyttelton.

The warehouse known as

INGLIS’S BOND,

as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 176, of the 20th January, 1883.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

GEO. FISHER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 300.]

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

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 warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely:—

Port of Lyttelton.

Two floors and cellar of a building of brick and stone, roofed with slates, situated on part Town Section No. 900, corner of Cashel Street, Christchurch, to be known as

INGLIS’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

GEO. FISHER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 301.]

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1888.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

MANGARE BRIDGE (AUCKLAND) REPAIRS CONTRACT NO. 2.

Accepted.

Repairing existing New
Trusses. Trusses.
£ s. d. £ s. d.

Larkin and Elliot, Auckland .. 1,655 5 0 1,655 5 0

Declined.

Mercer, J., Auckland .. 1,687 16 2 1,742 12 6
Cameron, W., Auckland .. 1,699 0 0 1,709 15 0
Sutherland, A., Auckland .. 1,991 0 0 1,830 0 0
Lovett and White, Auckland .. 2,248 0 0 2,394 17 11

Alteration in the Scale of Charges in force on the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with section 144 of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” I, Edwin Mitchelson, the Minister for Public Works, do hereby make the following alterations in the scale of charges, to come into force from and after the 28th May, 1888:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.

AUCKLAND SECTION.

Native coal to Helensville will be charged as follows:—

From Huntly .. .. .. 10 0 per ton.
From Kimihia Siding .. .. .. 9 9 "
From Miranda Siding .. .. .. 8 9 "

Ships’ supplies free of wharfage.

As witness my hand, this twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise the

ASSISTANT ENGINEER, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, WESTPORT,

to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on Public Works business only.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Postmaster-General.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1888.

THE following notices of elections of Members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Whareora Road District, County of Whangarei :
Samuel Dent.
John McKinnon.
William Walker.

Omaha Road District, County of Rodney :
William Mirehouse.
John Witten.
Henry Brown.

Maunga-atua Road District, County of Waipawa :
William Warrand Carlile.
Henry Richard Holder.
Harry McLellan Simmonds.
John Harris.

Akitio Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
William Alfred Burling.
John Harvey.

Mauriceville Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
John Bannister.
Charles Forsberg.
Gunder Gundersen.

Castlepoint Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
Subdivision No. 5—Rev. J. C. Andrew.
" No. 2—James Spinks Langdon.

Featherston Road District, County of Wairarapa South :
Frederick Monckton.
Alfred Matthews.
Hall Carr Dowman.
William McLeod.

Waimate Road District, County of Hawera :
Robert Lambie.
Simon Forsyth.
Edward John Ellerm.
John Heslop.
Gilbert Wilson.

Mangorei Road District, County of Taranaki :
Henry King.
Robert Snell.

Parihaka Road District, County of Taranaki :
George William Gane.
Marcus John MacReynolds.
Charles McHardy.
John Stevenson.

Tikorangi Road District, County of Clifton :
Samuel Knight.
James Sarten.
Thomas Jury.