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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Tenders.

BAREWOOD BRIDGES (IRON PIERS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE)
CONTRACT.—OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1888.

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

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
J. and A. Anderson, Christchurch .. .. 15,765 9 0

Declined.
R. S. Sparrow and Co., Dunedin .. .. 16,650 14 10
Cossens and Black, Dunedin .. .. 17,235 19 9

Revocation of Appointment of a Bonded Tobacco Manu-factory.

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 building or premises as a manufactory in which tobacco may be manufactured prior to the payment of duty thereon :—

Port of Auckland.

The warehouse known as

THE AUCKLAND TOBACCO COMPANY’S BONDED TOBACCO MANUFACTORY,

as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 203, of the 25th June, 1884.

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

GEO. FISHER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 308.]

Approving and appointing Bonded Tobacco Manufactory.

CUSTOMS.—In pursuance of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Tobacco Act, 1879,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned building or premises as a manufactory in which tobacco may be manufactured prior to the payment of duty thereon :—

Port of Auckland.

A building constructed of stone and brick, and roofed with iron, situated at corner of Fort Street and Commercial Lane, on Lot No. 51 and part Lot No. 52, City of Auckland, to be known as

THE ATLAS TOBACCO COMPANY’S BONDED TOBACCO MANU-FACTORY.

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

GEO. FISHER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 309.]

Reward of £10,000 offered for the Discovery of New Gold fields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1888.

REWARDS of £10,000 are offered for the discovery of new goldfields, upon the amended conditions set forth hereunder.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. The maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved discovery of a new goldfield in accordance with these conditions is £5,000 for the North Island, and £5,000 for the Middle Island.

2. The newly-discovered goldfield must be situated not less than forty miles from any existing goldfield or any existing workings.

3. No reward shall be payable until 50,000 ounces of gold have been produced from the newly-discovered goldfield within three years from the date of its being registered.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being desirous of obtaining the reward, shall immediately forward a written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to the Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within which such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or Resident Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an application for reward.

5. No prospecting will be allowed upon Native land without a prospecting license authorising the person therein named, with the consent of the owner of the land, to prospect, in accordance with the provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-five to one hundred and thirty-seven of “The Mining Act, 1886,” inclusive.

No reward shall be paid for any discovery that may be made upon Native land without the consent of the Native owners and the approval of the Minister of Mines.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 7th February, 1888.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1889, the period of literature will be the age of Queen Anne, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s Henry IV. and Henry V., and Lamb’s Essays of Elia.

GEO. FISHER.

Examinations for Teachers’ Certificates and for the Civil Service.

Education Department,
Wellington, 5th September, 1888.

CANDIDATES are reminded that their notices are due on the 31st day of October. Forms of notice can be obtained on application to the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, or to the Secretary of any Education Board.

WM. JAS. HABENS,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Te Makarini Scholarships.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships is open to all Maoris that have attended a Native school during the previous year, and are under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other two scholarships are open to all Maoris that are under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination, and that have attended a Native village school for the previous twelve months. These scholarships are offered for competition to Maori youths, on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1886, and in the supplementary regulations sent out to all teachers in May of the current year. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 17th and 18th December, 1888.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.
Wellington, 15th August, 1888.

Officiating Ministers for 1888.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend William Shirer.

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

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 1888.

THE Opotiki Gospel Temperance and Mutual Improvement Society, situated at Opotiki, is registered as a specially-authorised society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 10th day of September, 1888.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.