Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under "The Aliens Act, 1880," in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

T. W. HISLOP.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road, to Hindon Station, Otago Central Railway.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1882," to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in the County of Tairi, and for the purposes of such public work the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plans of the said road and of the lands so required to be taken are deposited in the Post Office, Hindon, and are there open for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Otago; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15897, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red, blue, and yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

T. W. HISLOP,
(For the Minister for Public Works.)

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, viz.:—

Port of Wellington.

Portion of the ground and first floor of a brick building roofed with slate, situated on Harbour Allotment No. 3, in a right-of-way off the Queen's Wharf, City of Wellington, to be known as "Young's Bond."

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

Geo. FISHER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner's Order No. 316.]

Regulations under "The Beer Duty Act, 1880."

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by "The Beer Duty Act, 1880" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), and of all other powers and authorities in this behalf enabling me, I, the Commissioner of Trade and Cus-
toms, do hereby revoke, as from the 1st day of January, 1889, Commissioner's Orders No. 135, of the 9th of October, 1880, and No. 137, of the 18th of November, 1880, made under the provisions of the said Act, and do hereby make and prescribe the following regulations for the administration of the said Act; and I do hereby order that such regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of January next.

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

Geo. FISHER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner's Order No. 317.]

REGULATIONS.

1. The following shall be the casks and the respective sizes thereof in which beer shall be sold or removed for consumption or sale, viz.:—
   Casks, viz., Hogsheads, of a capacity of 54 Imperial gal.
   " Barrels, " 36 "
   " Kilderkins, " 18 "
   " Other kinds, of a capacity of 30, 28, 27, 10, 5, 3, and 2 Imperial gallons respectively.

2. Hogsheads shall be assessed for duty at 52 gallons, and all other casks shall be assessed for duty as containing the number of gallons of beer they are respectively capable of holding when filled.

3. The book required to be kept by section 24 of the said Act shall be in the Form No. 1 of Schedule A hereto, and the book required to be kept by section 25 of the said Act shall be in the Form No. 2 of the said Schedule.

4. Every cask of beer, when sold or removed for consumption or sale, shall be stamped with one stamp only in the manner required by section 15 of "The Beer Duty Act, 1880" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), and the particulars thereof shall be entered in the book required to be kept for that purpose, as prescribed in Regulation 3 hereof. The stamp shall denote the duty payable in respect of the total quantity of the beer contained in such cask, and shall be so placed as to fairly cover the whole of the plug or stopper of the tap-hole.

5. A certified copy of the name, signature, or initials, and an imprint of any stamp used by the brewer in cancellation of stamps, is to be furnished to the Collector of the district by every person carrying on a licensed brewery under the Act, and if any change be made in the mode of such cancellation the same shall be immediately notified to such Collector.

6. No stamp shall be covered or concealed from view with any address-card or otherwise, but it may be secured by cork or otherwise at each corner, to prevent the stamp from coming off the cask.

7. Before any brewer or other person shall destroy or run off any beer in a brewery, he shall make application to the Collector of the district, who will thereupon grant permission, and appoint an officer to be present at the operation, and when completed an entry thereof is to be made in the book prescribed in Regulation 3 hereof, and shall be certified by the officer so present.

8. Every brewer shall at the request of a Collector or other officer of Customs produce all materials for brewing and duty-stamps and beer in his possession, and shall permit such Collector or officer to take particulars thereof, and shall satisfactorily account for any discrepancy appearing to exist between such particulars and the statement thereof in any book required to be kept by the said Act or these regulations.

9. The books required to be kept by the said Act and these regulations shall be properly balanced by the brewer at the end of every month, and the brewer shall permit a balance to be struck therein by the Collector of the district or other officer of Customs whenever required.

10. The said books shall be kept at and shall not be removed from the brewery.

11. The application for permit for the removal of beer under the provisions of section 32 of the said Act shall be as follows:—
    I, , of , in the District, brewer, owning or occupying a dépôt [warehouse or place] used exclusively for the storage [or sale] of beer in bulk, and situated at , in the District of , hereby apply for the necessary permits to remove of from brewery to the dépôt [warehouse or place] aforesaid, without affixing duty-stamps thereto.

(Signed.)
Dated the day of , 18 .
To the Collector of the District.

13. The form of permit shall be as follows:—
    No. .
    PERMIT to remove without duty-stamp, one from the brewery situated at , in the County [or