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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

[From the Boletin Oficial de la Direccion General de Aduanas (Customs Gazette) of Madrid, 10th November, 1892.]

ROYAL ORDER DIRECTING THAT PRODUCTS OF BRITISH POSSESSIONS SHALL ENJOY THE BENEFIT OF THE SECOND COLUMN OF THE PRESENT TARIFF.—4th October, 1892.—(“Expediente” No. 1044/92.)

The following Royal Order has been communicated by the Ministry of State to that of Finance:—

Sir,—In reply to the Royal Order which your Excellency was good enough to address to me, asking my opinion on the question whether, in virtue of international arrangements, the Island of Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador have a right to the enjoyment of the benefits of the second column of the present tariff as being British possessions,

His Majesty the King (whom God preserve!), and in his name the Queen Regent, has been pleased to direct that your office be informed that it would not be reasonable to refuse to the British colonies the same commercial treatment that is conceded to the Mother-country, seeing that England concedes the same commercial treatment to Spanish colonies as to Spain, and that it must be in consequence of an unintentional omission that this is not stated in the Royal Order of the 29th June.

By Royal Order, communicated to me by the Minister of State, I acquaint your Excellency with this for your information, and to enable you to give any necessary orders in the direction indicated to the customhouses of the peninsula and the adjacent islands.

This is published in the Boletin for the information of the customhouses, in order that the treatment of the second column of the present tariff may be conceded to products of British possessions, as provided in the preceding Royal Order.*

God preserve you many years!

Madrid, 4th October, 1892.
E. DE ALVEAR.

*See New Zealand Gazette No. 31, 14th April, 1892.

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 15th March, 1893.

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, 1888,” 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. 445.]

Notice to Receivers of Public Moneys.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st March, 1893.

With a view to the early completion of the Treasury Accounts of the current financial year ending on Friday, the 31st March, Receivers of Revenue are directed to prepare copies of their Revenue and Deposit Cash-books for a special period, to end on Thursday, the 30th instant, and to transmit the same, by post, to the Receiver-General immediately after the close of the bank on that date. The account for the special period is to include all receipts after bank hours on the 25th instant, and the whole of the subsequent transactions up to the time of the bank closing on the 30th idem. In the case of officers who account four-weekly, the special period is to embrace the transactions from the 25th February to the 30th March.

If any bank receipts dated on or before the 30th instant are received from sub-offices after copies of cash-books have been rendered for the special period, officers are directed to enter all such receipts in a supplementary account, and to transmit a copy thereof to the Receiver-General daily, such account to be finally closed on the 8th April.

The first ordinary account for the new year should be for the period from the 1st to the 8th April, both inclusive, and should only contain such revenue as shall have been paid to the Public Account or collected after bank hours subsequent to the 30th instant; the first four-weekly account is to be made up to the 22nd April next.

Receivers who account weekly are requested to take great care that the copies of their cash-books to be rendered during the current month are promptly posted.

JAMES B. HEYWOOD,
Receiver-General.

Tenders.

TENDERS are invited for the supply and delivery, at the Telegraph Stores, Wellington, of 500 25ft. telegraph-poles, all of heart of totara.

The specifications of the above can be seen at the Telegraph Offices, Wellington, Masterton, Ekatahuna, Carterton, Palmerston North, Halcombe, and Hunterville.

Tenders will be received for the lot, or in quantities of not less than 250, not later than the 8th April.

By order of the Telegraph Commissioner.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Head Office, Wellington, 15th March 1893.

Crown Lands Notices.

Perpetual Lease forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th March, 1893.

It is hereby notified that the under-mentioned perpetual lease was forfeited, by resolution of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, on the 18th January, 1893, under the provisions of section 50 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

LEASE 160, Section 4, Block VI., Weber Survey District, held by P. Meagher.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Lands.

Leases of Small Grazing-runs, Southland, open for Application.

District Land and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 6th March, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for application, at this office, on Thursday, the 20th April, 1893, at the annual rental noted opposite each run.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Run No. 15, broken pastoral country, shale formation at north end, all tussock country, well watered, height above sea-level from 1,000ft. to 2,093ft.; distance from the Nightcaps Railway-station about fifteen miles. This run will be burdened with £57 4s., being half the value of boundary-fences.

Run No. 16, hilly country, good pastoral land, well watered, all tussock country, height above sea-level from 1,000ft. to 1,500ft.; distance from Nightcaps Railway-station about twelve miles. This run will be burdened with £137 5s., being half the value of boundary-fences.

Run No. 17, hilly country, good pastoral land, well watered, all tussock country, height above sea-level from 1,000ft. to 1,600ft.; distance from Nightcaps Railway-station about twelve miles. This run will be burdened with £131 7s. 6d., being half the value of boundary-fences.