Jan. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 7

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

ALEXANDER NESBET, Esq.,
of Kaeo, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1890.

THE following list of tenders for the Mangaonoho Contract, on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, is published for general information.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.

Cleghorn, Forrest, and Magee, Auckland .. 26,499 8 1

Declined.

J. Saunders and Co., Wellington .. 27,972 2 0
R. S. Allan and Co., Dunedin .. 28,933 0 0
R. McKenzie and Co., Wellington .. 29,784 16 10
Wilkie and Wilson, Waitotara .. 30,813 0 10
A. Bain and Co., Dunedin .. 33,513 0 0
A. McFarlane, Wanganui.. .. 34,253 18 0
W. G. Bassett, Wanganui.. .. 34,300 0 0
J. and A. Anderson, Christchurch .. 37,037 6 2

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

The CHAIRMAN of the BOARD OF GOVERNORS of the CANTERBURY COLLEGE
to frank letters on the public service.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

Mr. G. T. MURRAY,
Road Surveyor, Wellington District, to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Postmaster-General.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 1st December, 1890.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1892, the period of literature will be the period of the Commonwealth, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest.

FRED. WHITAKER,
For the Minister of Education.

Additional Land taken in Awamoko Survey District for Purposes of the Duntrroon Branch of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Duntrroon Branch of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway, to take further land in the Awamoko Survey District, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Otago; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R., P.W.D. 16684, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

JAMES McKERROW.
W. M. HANNAY.

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 5th day of January, 1891:—

PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.

| Cornsacks, in bags and bales | .. | .. | .. | Class. E |
| Paper, waste | .. | .. | .. | N |
| Rags | .. | .. | .. | N |
| Sacking, old | .. | .. | .. | N |
| Stone-crushers. Owners’ risk. Special goods | .. | C |

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

JAMES McKERROW,
J. P. MAXWELL,
W. M. HANNAY,
} Railway Commissioners.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1890.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be opened at

ELTHAM (Chief Office, Wanganui),
from the 1st proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Application for Registration of a Trade-mark.

(No. 157.)

Patent Office,
Wellington, 2nd January, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that the MOSGIEL WOOLLEN FACTORY COMPANY (LIMITED), of High Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Woollen Manufacturers, have applied to register, under “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889,” the trade-mark of which the following is a representation:—

MOSGIEL

[Image: stylized text 'MOSGIEL' above 'PURE WOOL' with decorative lines]

PURE WOOL