Oct. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1551

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Amuri County Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1894.

THE following notice and declaration, received from the Chairman of the Amuri County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

AMURI COUNTY COUNCIL.

To the Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
Wellington.

I HAVE the honour, in pursuance of section 199 of “The Counties Act, 1886,” to give you notice that on Saturday, the 29th day of September, 1894, a poll of the ratepayers of the Waiau Plains Water-supply District was taken on a proposal to raise, by way of special loan, the further sum of £1,000 for the purpose of constructing new headworks to and extending and repairing the Waiau Plains Water-races, and that the resolution in favour of such proposal was duly carried.

Dated at Culverden, this 29th day of September, 1894.

DUNCAN RUTHERFORD,
Chairman of the Amuri County Council.

In the matter of “The Counties Act, 1886,” “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” “The Water-supply Act, 1881,” and the Acts amending the same respectively; and in the matter of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

I, DUNCAN RUTHERFORD, of Leslie Hills, Culverden, in the Provincial District of Canterbury and Colony of New Zealand, sheepfarmer, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. That I am Chairman of the Amuri County Council.

2. That on Saturday, the 29th day of September, 1894, a poll of the ratepayers of the Waiau Plains Water-race District was taken on a proposal to raise, by way of special loan, the further sum of £1,000 for the purpose of constructing new headworks to and extending and repairing the Waiau Plains Water-races.

3. That the resolution in favour of such proposal has been duly carried.

4. That all proceedings required by the above-named Acts, or any of them, to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the ratepayers to the said proposal have been duly taken.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

DUNCAN RUTHERFORD.

Declared by the said Duncan Rutherford, at Culverden, this 29th day of September, 1894, before me—F. S. Northcote, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

Appointment of a Magazine for the Storage of Explosives.

I, JOSEPH GEORGE WARD, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, in exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by “The Explosives Act, 1882,” do hereby appoint the magazine situated on the Kilbirnie–Shelly Bay Road, being part of the Miramar Estate, and occupied by Messrs. Bannatyne and Co., to be a magazine for the storage and keeping of dynamite and gelignite, subject to the regulations in force at the date hereof.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

J. G. WARD,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 495.]

Translation of a Spanish Tariff Law.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 16th October, 1894.

THE following translation of a Spanish law granting to Great Britain and the British colonies certain tariff advantages is published for general information.

J. G. WARD,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

LAW.

DON ALFONSO XIII., by the grace of God and of the Constitution King of Spain, and in his name and during his minority the Queen-Regent of the Realm.

To all those to whom these presents may come, know that the Cortes have decreed and we sanction what follows:—

Sole Article.—From the date of the publication of this law, and whilst other treaties are not put in force, the more reduced duties and the tariff advantages resulting from the commercial agreements agreed upon with Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and the Low Countries shall be applied to the products of the soil and of the industry of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Great Britain and its colonies, and Italy.

In order that these benefits shall be understood as subsisting, it will be indispensable for the nations to which they have been granted to apply to the products of the soil and of the industry of Spain their lowest tariffs.

Therefore we command all the tribunals, Justices, Chiefs, Governors, and other authorities, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, of whatever class or dignity, to observe it and cause it to be observed, to fulfil and execute it in all its parts.

THE QUEEN-REGENT.

Segismundo Moret, Minister of State.

Royal Palace, 10th July, 1894.

Notice to Mariners, No. 38 of 1894.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th October, 1894.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, are published for general information.

J. G. WARD.

WRECKAGE OFF CAPE UPSTART.

NOTICE is hereby given that the ketch “Sea Nymph,” when 10 miles N.N.E. from Cape Upstart, is reported to have struck a log or some wreckage, causing her subsequent total loss. Masters of vessels are therefore cautioned to keep a good look-out when in this locality.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 19th September, 1894.

MORETON BAY, NORTH CHANNEL.—EXTENSION WESTWARD OF THE EAST BANK.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in consequence of a growth to the westward, the east bank nearly touches the line of Tangaluma and Cowan Cowan leading lights.

Vessels entering at night must therefore open the above-named lights to the westward a distance equal to the difference of their heights before hauling up, and then proceed, keeping them in that position, until the Yellow Patch Light is obscured, when proceed as before.

Vessels entering by day should pass one and a half cables to the westward of the black buoy on the north-west extreme of the East Bank before hauling up, then proceed as before.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 28th September, 1894.

Issue of Imperial Volunteer Officers’ Decoration.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1894.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the issue of the Imperial Volunteer Officers’ Decoration to

Lieutenant-Colonel GEORGE SUMPTER, Unattached Active List New Zealand Volunteers, commanding Oamaru Militia and Volunteer District,

he having a total continuous commissioned service to the 24th September, 1894, of 24 years 89 days.

R. J. SEDDON.

Native School Site at Pipiriki.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th October, 1894.

THE following report of the person appointed by His Excellency the Governor, under the provisions of “The Native Schools Sites Act, 1880,” to ascertain the title of certain Natives to land at Pipiriki, on the Wanganui River, appropriated by them for the site of a school, having been adopted by His Excellency, is published in accordance with the said Act.

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

REPORT UNDER “THE NATIVE SCHOOLS SITES ACT, 1880.”

His Excellency the Governor having been pleased, under the provisions of the above-cited Act, to appoint me to ascertain the title of certain Natives to a piece of land situate at Pipiriki, on the Wanganui River, and known as Puponga, containing 2 acres, appropriated by them as a school site,