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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

[TRANSLATION.]
“THE Crown and Native Lands Rating, Act,” 1882,” and the Amendment thereof.

To each and every the owner or owners of land described in the substituted valuation-rolls of Native lands supplied to the local bodies, the names of which are set forth in the Schedule hereunder, under the provisions of the above Acts and all other Acts affecting the same or relating thereto.

WHEREAS demand having been made to me, the under-signed Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of New Zealand, in accordance with the provisions of “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,” by or on behalf of the said local bodies, for payment of the rates appearing to be payable under or by virtue of the said rolls for the year ending the 31st March, 1888:

Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates on or before the 28th January, 1888, such payment to be made by you at the office of the local body in whose district the lands affected are respectively comprised, and as noted in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness my hand, this eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
H. A. ATKINSON,
Colonial Treasurer.

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 ⅓d. 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.

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.

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department (Commissioner’s Office),
Wellington, 4th January, 1888.

THE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now in possession of the Police, at Auckland, will, unless previously claimed, be sold by public auction, at the Police Office, Auckland, on Saturday the 28th instant, at noon, in accordance with the Police Regulations :—

One case containing fruit-knife, fork, and spoon; one bracelet, one ring, one brooch, three watches, one necklet, four brass chains, ten studs, and a bag containing a quantity of odd and broken jewellery.

W. E. GUDGEON,
Commissioner of Police.

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department (Commissioner’s Office),
Wellington, 14th January, 1888.

THE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now in possession of the Police, at New Plymouth, will, unless previously claimed, be sold by public auction, at the Police Office, New Plymouth, on Saturday, the 11th proximo, at noon, in accordance with the Police Regulations :—

One silver lever watch, two Geneva watches, two revolvers, one carbine pistol, one gold nugget, one ring, and sundries.

W. E. GUDGEON,
Commissioner of Police.

Notice of hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1888.

NO. 2740.—FRANCIS GREAD, of Little River, New Zealand, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved method of threshing cocksfoot or other grass, styled “Gread’s Hand-power Cocksfoot Threshing Machine.”

No. 2741.—LOUIS ABRAHAM BRODE, of 13, Stuart Street, Shawlands, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, Enameller, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in preparing briquettes of iron-stone waste or dust, or similar ferruginous materials, for smelting.

No. 2742.—DESMOND GERALD FITZGERALD, of 6, Akerman Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, England, Electrician, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in the production of coherent masses of peroxide of lead for use as voltaic battery elements, and for use in electrolytical and metallurgical operations.

No. 2743.—CLAUDE THEODORE JAMES VAUTIN, of London, England, Metallurgical Chemist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improved apparatus for extraction of gold from crushed or other finely-divided auriferous material.

No. 2744.—CLAUDE THEODORE JAMES VAUTIN, of London, England, Metallurgical Chemist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improved apparatus for the separation of solutions of metallic salts from pulverised material mixed therewith.