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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 22

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1892.
THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders
for the Additions and Alterations Contract, Christ-
church Post-office, is published for general information.
R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.
W. Smith, Christchurch

Declined.
T. J. Gee, Christchurch
J. and W. Jameson, Christchurch
A. Swanston, Christchurch
Greig and Hunter, Christchurch
W. Bowen, Christchurch
H. Daulby, Dunedin
P. Hyndman, Christchurch

£ s. d.
1,969 15 10
2,023 18 2
2,035 0 0
2,058 5 7
2,099 9 11
2,149 9 6
2,174 10 0
2,198 13 0

New Zealand War Medals issued.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1892.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to authorise the issue of New Zea-
land war medals to the persons named in the under-written
Schedule.
W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Defence.

NOMINAL ROLL OF MEN OF THE COLONIAL FORCES WHOSE
CLAIMS TO THE NEW ZEALAND WAR MEDALS HAVE BEEN
INVESTIGATED AND ADMITTED.

Name.
James Bellringer ..
Henry Brown ..
James Brown ..
William S. Baldwin
Henry Charman ..
Campbell Stevens ..
John Hoskin ..
William Hood ..

Rank.
Private..
Constable
Private..
Private..
Trooper
Private..
Trooper
Constable

Corps.
No. 1 Company, Taranaki
Rifle Volunteers.
No. 3 Division, Armed Con-
stabulary.
Mauku Rifle Volunteers.
Taranaki Militia.
Colonial Defence Force.
3rd Waikato Militia.
Taranaki Mounted Rifle
Volunteers.
No. 4 Division, Armed Con-
stabulary.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

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 warehouse for the
reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused
without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof,
namely:-
Port of Wellington.
The warehouse known as
BANNATYNE'S BOND,
as appointed and described in Commissioner's Order No. 24,
of the 16th November, 1868.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this third day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
two.
W. P. REEVES,
Acting for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner's Order No. 414.]

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,
namely:-
Port of Wellington.
A portion of the second floor of a building constructed
of brick and roofed with iron, situate on Section 7, Wel-
lington Harbour Board Endowment, Hunter Street, City of
Wellington, to be known as
BANNATYNE'S BOND.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this third day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
two.
W. P. REEVES,
Acting for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner's Order No. 415.]

Bonus for the Manufacture of Pig-iron from Ironsand
or Iron-ore.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.
NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will
be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of pig-
iron of marketable quality manufactured in the colony
after this date from magnetic or titaniferous ironsand or
iron-ore, all material, fuel, and fluxes being the produce
of New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to
say:-

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March,
3. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as
   each lot of 50 tons of iron is manufactured, on the certifi-
   cate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the
   iron is of good marketable quality.
4. In the event of more than one person manufacturing
   the required quality of pig-iron before the date named,
   inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when,
   if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a
   bonus, the amount will be divided; but in no case shall the
   total amount of money paid by way of bonus exceed £500.
5. The iron in respect of which any bonus is claimed and
   the ironsand or ore from which it is manufactured will be
   examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof
   that not only the ore, but that the lime, coal, and any other
   material used in the manufacture, is of genuine New Zealand
   production, and that sales of pig-iron have been made at
   fair market prices.
   R. J. SEDDON,
   Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Salt.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.
NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will
be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of salt,
exclusively either by evaporation of salt-water or from rock
mined in the colony, on the following conditions, that is to
say:-

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March,
3. Not more than £250 will be paid for salt manufactured
   in the North Island, and not more than £250 for salt manu-
   factured in the South Island.
4. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each
   lot of 50 tons of salt is manufactured, on the certificate of
   an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the salt is
   of good marketable quality.
5. In the event of more than one person manufacturing
   the stated quantity of salt in the North or South Islands
   respectively before the 31st March, 1893, inquiry will be
   made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found
   that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus in either
   the North Island or the South Island, the amount will be
   divided, but in no case shall more than £250 be paid for salt
   manufactured in the North Island and £250 for salt manu-
   factured in the South Island.
6. The salt in respect of which any bonus is claimed and
   the material used in its manufacture will be examined by
   the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that the salt is of
   genuine New Zealand production, and that sales have been
   made at fair market prices.
   R. J. SEDDON,
   Minister of Mines.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1891.
IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1893, the period of litera-
ture will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books
will be Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macaulay's Essays on
Bacon and Walpole.
W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.-Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1892.
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:-
Students of Truth.
Arthur B. Worthington.
Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.