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or goods (such as wine) incapable of being mistaken as British
goods, where the description applied to the coverings or such
other things does not relate to them, but has reference to
the goods which they are to cover to carry into the market,
and packages used for the importation from any place of
natural flowers, fresh fruit, vegetables, and potatoes, and
bearing upon them marks which the officers are satisfied are
merely address-marks, such as "Wm. Evans, Leeds,"
"Thos. Jones, London," are to be treated as packing-cases.
Moreover, such words as "fast" and "slow" on a watch,
giving directions as to the mode of using the watch, and
such a word as "freezing," at 32 degrees, on Fahrenheit's
thermometer, conveying necessary information as to the
system on which the instrument is constructed, are admitted
as being part of the goods themselves, but the use of such
words must not exceed what is absolutely necessary for the
due use of the goods on which they are placed.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1889.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders
is published for general information.
THOS. FERGUS,
Minister for Public Works.

MIDDLEMARCH BRIDGES CONTRACT. - OTAGO CENTRAL
RAILWAY.
Accepted.
Sutherland and Nelson, Port Chalmers .. £ s. d.
1,749 6 4

Declined.
J. Whittaker and Co., Dunedin .. 1,888 10 0
James Innes, Hindon .. 1,946 16 11
J. and A. Anderson, Christchurch .. 1,948 2 6
A. Dawson and Co., Port Chalmers .. 1,980 12 1
W. Cuthbert, Oamaru .. 1,997 8 8
H. Daulby, Dunedin .. 2,222 0 0
R. Meikle, Dunedin .. 2,277 0 0

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 condi-
   tions 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 with-
   out 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.

Officiating Ministers for 1889.-Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th November, 1889.

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 in-
tituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an
Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information:-

Baptists.
The Reverend William Birch.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner's Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1889.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Hon.
Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to
interpret "The Customs and Excise Duties Act, 1888," in
relation to the under-mentioned articles as follow:-

NOTE.-"Not otherwise enumerated" appears as n.o.e.; "other
kinds" as o.k.; "articles and materials suited only for, and to be
used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony" as a. & m.s.
Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

coloured, tinted, or enamelled, as stationery
n.o.e. | 15 per cent. |
| Centrifugal machine for silk-dressing flour, as
machinery n.o.e. | 20 per cent. |
| Cheese-making machinery, as machinery for
dairying purposes | Free. |
| Dressmakers' belting, as textile piece-goods.. | 20 per cent. |
| Exhauster or wing-disc fan, as machinery
n.o.e. | 20 per cent. |
| Flour-mills (roller), to include patent auto-
matic vibrating feed - machine, wheat-
grader, patent first-break roller-mill, single
and double horizontal roller-mill, double-
vertical roller-mill, scalping - machine,
gravity purifier, patent single and double
purifier, patent "x 1" purifier and travel-
ling filtering-cloth dust-collector combined,
horizontal bran-duster. | 20 per cent. |
| Fly-traps of wire and tin, as hardware | 20 per cent. |
| Fountain, ornamental (for presentation), as
hardware | 20 per cent. |
| Gas apparatus, dentists', as artificers' tools.. | Free. |
| Ginger, whole or ground, to be classed as
spices. | Free. |
| Hat-labels, as a. & m.s. | Free. |
| Leather, East India kip split, as split leather | 2d. the lb. |
| Machine-drills, as engineers' machine-tools | Free. |
| Middling's grader, as machinery n.o.e. | 20 per cent. |
| Paper for newspaper-wrappers, as wrapping-
paper o.k. | 5s. the cwt. |
| Perambulator-bodies, as parts of perambu-
lators. | 20 per cent. |
| Propellers, as screws and castings for ships.. | Free. |
| Scholars' tablets for Sunday-schools, as
printed papers .. | Free. |
| Sprinklers for bottles, as hardware | 20 per cent. |
| Towels, sanitary, as made-up textiles | 25 per cent. |
| Tines for harrows, as parts of harrows | Free. |
| Vulcanizer, dentists', as artificers' tools | Free. |

By Commissioner's Order No. 353.
H. S. MCKELLAR,
Secretary and Inspector.

Trade Union registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1889.

THE Grey District Trades and Labour Union of the
Colony of New Zealand, situated at Greymouth, is
registered as a trade union, under "The Trade Union Act,
1878," this 3rd day of December, 1889.
EDMUND MASON,
Registrar.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1889.

NO. 4092.-FREDERICK DUNCAN MERCER and JOHN
SMITH MERCER, both of Alliston, Simcoe, Ontario,
Canada, have deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for improvements in harvesters.

No. 4093.-MARK ANTHONY, of San Francisco, America,
has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for
improvements in faucets and bushings.