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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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In the absence, and until the arrival, of the Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents, the local authorities shall, moreover, take all necessary measures for the protection of the persons and for the preservation of the articles which shall have been saved from the wreck.

This intervention shall not give rise to any charges, with the exception of those which the salvage operations and the protection of the articles saved shall have rendered necessary, and those to which national ships would, under similar circumstances, be liable. These charges shall be paid according to the circumstances of the case, either by the agents of the consular service, or by their owners or their proxies.

In case absence, sickness, or any other cause should prevent the agents of the consular service from seeing to the operations and the management of the salvage, the local authorities who may be charged with the operations and management in question shall be bound to remit to the aforesaid agents the ship’s papers and the net proceeds of the ship and the cargo.

ARTICLE V.

The merchandise and articles saved shall not be liable to any Customs duties, unless they are intended for home consumption, in which case they shall pay the same duties as they would have had to pay if they had been imported in national vessels.

ARTICLE VI.

The stipulations of the present declaration shall be applicable to all the colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to India, the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Cape, Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand.

Provided always that the stipulations of the present declaration shall be made applicable to any of the above-named colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty’s representative to the French Republic within one year from the date of the signature of the present declaration.

The stipulations of the present declaration shall be applicable to all the colonies and foreign possessions of France.

ARTICLE VII.

The present declaration shall come into operation three months after the date of its signature, and shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either party may give notice of its intention to terminate it.

In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, His Excellency the Earl of Lytton, Ambassador of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Excellency M. Eugène Spuller, Minister for Foreign Affairs, have signed the present declaration, and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at Paris, this 23rd day of October, 1889.

(L.S.) LYTTON.
(L.S.) E. SPULLER.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges in force upon the New Zealand Railways.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” do hereby make the following alteration in and addition to the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the New Zealand railways, to come into force on and after the 24th day of November, 1890:—

PART VI.—WHARVES.

HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.

Port Chalmers Wharves.—Charges for Use of the Wharves.

For every vessel lying at the wharves, or within the limits of the railway, for each month or part thereof, for each ton register, 1d. The minimum charge to be £2, and the maximum charge to be £15, per month or part of a month respectively.

The common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners was hereunto affixed, this eleventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, in the presence of

JAMES MCKERROW, \ Railway
J. P. MAXWELL, \ Commissioners.

Trade Union registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 1890.

THE United Millers’, Engine-drivers’, and Mill Employés’ Society of New Zealand, situated at Timaru, is registered as a trade union, under “The Trade Union Act, 1878,” this 12th day of November, 1890.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar.

Notice of Applications for Patents.
Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned applications have been accepted, and are open to public inspection.

Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the grant of the patent, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection.

No. 4686.—HERBERT OLDHAM, of Tuakau, Auckland, New Zealand, Rope-maker. An invention for an improved flax-dressing, cleaning, and drying machine, to be called “Oldham’s Improved Flax-dressing, Cleaning, and Drying Machine.”

No. 4688.—PHILIP DIEHL and WILLIAM BRANDT, both of Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America, Mechanical Engineers. An invention for improvements in sewing-machines.

No. 4690.—CHARLES EDWARD MAY, of Mornington, Otago, New Zealand, Electrician. An invention entitled “May’s Automatic Fire-extinguisher.”

No. 4692.—HENRY RICHARD JURY, of Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. An invention for an improvement in table cutlery, in the form of a safety carving-fork guard, to be called “Jury’s Patent Safety Carving-fork Guard.”

No. 4693.—JAMES KEIR, of Ashburton, New Zealand, Machinist. An invention entitled “Keir’s Chaff-and Caving-fan for removing Chaff and Cavings from Threshing-machines.

No. 4694.—GEORGE WILLIAM HORN, of Upper Albert Street, Thames, New Zealand, Carpenter. An invention for a continuous circular discharge to the Mackay’s pan or any pans for grinding tailings.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Notice of Applications for Patents.
Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned applications have been accepted, and are open to public inspection.

Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the grant of the patent, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection.

No. 4695.—JOHN CARTER, of Riccarton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. An invention for apparatus for cutting seed-potatoes for planting.

No. 4696.—WILLIAM CAREY, C.B., Colonel, Royal Artillery, Southampton, England. An invention for improvements in diving-dresses.

No. 4551.—EDWARD THUNDERBOLT, of 31, Forrest Street, Collingwood, near Melbourne, Victoria, Engineer, and JAMES FULTON, of Trenery Crescent, Abbotsford, near Melbourne aforesaid, Engineer. An invention for improved contrivances for closing railway-carriage doors by means of compressed air or vacuum.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Land in the Town of Stratford.
Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 6th November, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned allotments of land in the Town of Stratford will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at this office, at noon, on Saturday, the 6th December, 1890.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

TOWN OF STRATFORD.

Also on terms of deferred payments:—

HUIROA SURVEY DISTRICT.