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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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so inspected the whole or any of them, may direct that the
whole or any of them be brought for further trial to such
place as they may think fit.
The cost of bringing the machines or appliances on to the
ground, from within the colony, supplying the necessary
shafting, motive-power, and buildings, to be defrayed by the
Government. If any machine sent from beyond the colony
is awarded the bonus or part thereof, then the cost of
bringing such machine shall be borne by the Government.
The following shall be the basis of the test:—
The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quan-
tity of green hemp to each machine or process as a test.
The committee shall take into consideration—
The time occupied by each machine or process in the
operation;
The cost of labour and time required after the fibre has
left the machine or process before it is ready for
baling;
The percentage of dressed fibre and tow produced by
each machine or process;
The cost of producing the same;
The cost of the machine, and the simplicity and dura-
bility of the working parts.
On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a
report to the Minister on all the machines or processes which
they have examined or tested, and shall state,—
(1.) The machine or process which they consider on the
whole the most efficient and economic.
(2.) Whether they consider that any machine or process
tested so materially reduces the cost of produc-
tion, or improves the product, as to be worthy of
the whole bonus or of a part only.
(3.) Whether, in the event of no one machine or process
being entitled to the whole bonus, they deem any
machine or process worthy of a part of the bonus,
and, if so, how much.

Bonus No. 2.

A bonus of £250 is offered for a process of utilising the
waste products of the hemp.
The first three conditions of Bonus No. 1 to apply to this
also.
The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quantity
of the waste products to each process as a test.
On completion of the tests the committee shall report to
the Minister, and shall give the following particulars of each
process: (a.) The nature of the article made. (b.) The
quantity produced, and the cost of production. (c.) The
value of the product. (d.) Whether any of the processes are
of sufficient importance to warrant the Minister in giving
(1) the whole, or (2) any part, of the bonus; (3) if a part
only, how much.

JOHN McKENZIE.
Minister of Agriculture.

Commissioner's Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 7th February, 1894.

I T 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 follows:—

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. 480.]

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st September, 1893.

I N pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1895, the period of literature
will be the latter end of the eighteenth century, and the
special books will be Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar" and
Thackeray's "Esmond."

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Officiating Ministers for 1894.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1894.

P URSUANT 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-
titled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information:—
Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.
The Reverend George William York.
The Reverend Joseph James Wilson.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Alterations and Additions to the Special Scale of Fares,
Rates, and Charges in Force for Traffic interchanged
between Stations on the Greymouth Section of the New
Zealand Government Railways and Stations on the New
Zealand Midland Railway Company's Railway, and for
Local Traffic on the New Zealand Midland Railway
Company's Railway.

W HEREAS an agreement has been entered into between
the New Zealand Railway Commissioners and the
New Zealand Midland Railway Company (Limited), pro-
viding that trains and rolling-stock the property of the com-
pany may be run upon the Government railway between
Greymouth and Brunnerton, and that rolling-stock the pro-
perty of the Commissioners may be run upon the railway the
property of the company:
Now, therefore, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
conferred by "The Government Railways Act, 1887," the
New Zealand Railway Commissioners do hereby make the
following alterations in and additions to the special scale of
fares, rates, and charges for traffic interchanged between
stations on the Greymouth Section of the New Zealand
Government railways and stations on the New Zealand
Midland Railway Company's railway, and for local traffic
on the New Zealand Midland Railway Company's railway,
to come into force on and after the twelfth day of February,
1894:—

PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS.

(10) Class P.—Native Coal.

Coal for Greymouth from the Black Ball Coal Company's
mine will be charged 1s. 6d. per ton for conveyance by the
Midland Railway Company to Brunnerton, and 1s. 8d. per
ton in addition for conveyance upon the Government railway
from Brunnerton to Greymouth.
The common seal of the New Zealand
Railway Commissioners was here-
unto affixed, this fifth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-four, in the presence of

JAMES McKERROW,
T. RONAYNE,

Railway
Commissioners.

Notice by Public Trustee under "The Unclaimed Lands
Act, 1892."

In the matter of a parcel of land granted to Lawrence
Heyworth, jun., containing by admeasurement 150 acres,
more or less, situated at the Opawa, in the District of the
Wairau, in the Provincial District of Nelson, being parts
of sections numbered 7 and 8 on the plan of the said dis-
trict, bounded on the northward partly by land granted to
William Budge, and partly by Pipi and Morgan's Creeks,
on the eastward by other part of said Section No. 7, on
the southward by a public road, and on the westward
partly by the River Opawa, partly by part of the said
Section No. 8, and partly by land granted to William
Budge, of the present ownership of which 150 acres
nothing is known, and it is believed to have been aban-
doned by the grantee as profitless to him.