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mined in the colony, on the following conditions, that is to say :—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.
2. Not more than £250 will be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island, and not more than £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.
3. 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.
4. 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 manufactured in the South Island.
5. 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 literature 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.

Money-order and Savings-bank Office closed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1892.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Money-order and Savings-bank Office at

CASTLEPOINT (Chief Office, Wellington)

will be closed from the 1st proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.—Notice No. 8.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd 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 intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Brownlow James Westbrook.
The Reverend James Caithness Gellie.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Member of House of Representatives resigned.

IN compliance with the provisions of the 61st section of “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1881,” I hereby notify that

JAMES WILLIAM THOMSON, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Bruce, and that his letter of resignation was received by me on the 19th day of March, 1892, and that the said seat is vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Ashburton, the 21st day of March, 1892.

Wm. J. STEWARD,
Speaker.

Patent Office Supplement.

A SEPARATE Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette is now published fortnightly, containing all notices concerning patents and trade-marks required by law to be gazetted ; also, particulars of lapsed applications for patents, expired letters patent, and other information useful to inventors, manufacturers, and others. The Supplement will be issued free to subscribers to the Gazette, and to others on payment of a special subscription of ten shillings per annum, payable in advance to the Government Printer.

Rainfall for February, 1892.

Meteorological Office.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of February, 1892 :—

J. HECTOR, Director.