Aug. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1197

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.

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 15th August, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Hon. the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to interpret “The Customs and Excise Duties Act, 1898,” 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.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.

Commissioner’s Order No. 426.]

Road Board Election.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1892.

THE following notice of election of Members of a Road Board has been received at this office, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Akitio Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
Francis Armstrong.
William Alfred Burling.
David William Foreman.
John Stewart Handyside.
Alexander Murray.

Agent at Timaru to the Public Trustee appointed.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1892.

IT is hereby notified for general information that ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, Esq., has been appointed to be Agent to the Public Trustee at Timaru, from the 28th day of July, 1892, vice D. M. Ross, Esq., resigned.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Money-order and Savings-bank Offices opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1892.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Money-order and Savings-bank Offices will be opened at MANUKAU, LEVIN, and SHANNON (Chief Office, Wellington), from the 1st proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Alteration and Addition to the Scale of Fares and Charges in Force upon the New Zealand Government 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 alterations in and additions to the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the New Zealand Government railways, to come into force on and after the 22nd day of August, 1892:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.
HURUNUI–BLUFF SECTION.—KENSINGTON TO WINGATUI.
Nightsoil, Kensington to Wingatui, will be charged 12s. per truck; owners to load and unload.

The common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners was hereunto affixed, this sixteenth day of August, (L.S.) one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, in the presence of

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

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maoris under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, and are open to all Maoris under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have not been pupils at Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory. The senior scholarship is offered for competition among Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1886, and in the supplementary regulations that have been sent out to all teachers. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1886. The questions set will, however, be more difficult than those given at the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 19th and 20th December, 1892.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 31st May, 1892.

Rainfall for July, 1892.

Meteorological Office.

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