June 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 915

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th May, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held by
the under-mentioned officers:—

Manchester Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant John William Fox Halcombe. Date of resig-
nation, 18th May, 1895.

Brunnerton Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Frank Hill. Date of resignation, 1st May, 1895.

R. J. SEDDON.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th June, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ac-
cept the resignation, by

SAMUEL JOHN DECK, Esq.,

of Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island, of his appointment as
Justice of the Peace for the colony.

W. P. REEVES.

Customs Appointments.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 1st June, 1895.

THE following appointments in this department have
been made by the Hon. the Commissioner.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Potassium Cyanide.

Department of Industries and Commerce,
Wellington, 17th January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1,000 will be
paid for the erection of a plant and the manufacture
in New Zealand of the first 200 tons of crude cyanide of
potassium from colonial produce.

1. The plant must be capable of producing at least 70
   tons of crude cyanide of potassium annually.

2. The crude cyanide of potassium so manufactured shall
   contain at least 70 per cent. of potassium cyanide.

3. The bonus will be paid in two equal instalments, the
   first instalment being payable on the production of the first
   100 tons, and the second instalment on the production of
   the second 100 tons, of crude cyanide of potassium contain-
   ing the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

4. On the completion of the plant, notice in writing must
   be sent to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Wel-
   ington, who will appoint an officer to inspect the same,
   together with the raw material then available from which
   the cyanide of potassium is proposed to be manufactured.

5. The officer so appointed shall from time to time inspect
   the process of manufacture, in order that he may satisfy
   himself that the whole of the cyanide of potassium is being
   manufactured from material of New Zealand production;
   and before any bonus is paid such officer will be required
   to certify that he is satisfied the crude cyanide of potassium
   is the product of New Zealand material only, and that it
   contains the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

6. The bonus must be claimed for the first 100 tons on or
   before the 31st March, 1897, and for the second 100 tons on
   or before the 30th September, 1898.

J. G. WARD.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and Charges
in Force upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

IN accordance with "The Government Railways Act,
1894," I, Alfred Jerome Cadman, the Minister for
Railways, 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 10th day of June, 1895:—

PART IV.—GOODS, LOCAL RATES.

NAPIER—TARANAKI SECTION.

Class K.—Timber.

The clause stating that logs consigned from stations in

bush districts to sawmills will be charged 3d. per 100 super-
ficial feet less than the classified rates is hereby cancelled.

GREYMOUTH—HOKITIKA SECTION.

Class F.

Goods of Class F, except ships' goods from Greymouth,
will be charged as Class F, instead of as Class P as hereto-
fore.

As witness my hand, this thirty-first day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Swine-fever.
—No. 413.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 3rd May, 1895.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as
"swine-fever" exists amongst pigs belonging to Mr.
J. C. Anderson, of Stirling, farmer, and running on his farm-
lands, comprising Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, in Block XIII., North
Molyneux District, I therefore, in accordance with sec-
tion 14, subsection (4), of "The Stock Act, 1893," hereby
declare such lands to be an infected place from which no
swine, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fit-
tings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an
Inspector of Stock.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Officiating Ministers for 1895.—Notice No. 16.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 1895.

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 in-
tituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of
an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Robert McClean.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

*Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15
of "The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894."

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 4th June, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken
out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in
the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election
to administer the intestate estate of the person deceased,
whose name, residence, and occupation, so far as known, is
hereunder set forth, his gross property being estimated not
to exceed £250.

John Slaney, late of Helensville, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 31st day of May,
1895.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN BAYLEY WESTA-
cott, of Gray Street, Hamilton, in the Colony of
Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the said
colony, has been this day appointed by his Honour the
Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New
Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of "The Com-
missioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose
of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and
affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated this 23rd day of May, 1895.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE ASH, of 18 to 22,
Eagle Chambers, Pirie Street, Adelaide, a Solicitor
of the Supreme Court of South Australia, has been this day
appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of
the Supreme Court of New Zealand in South Australia,
under the 2nd section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme
Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of administering and taking
all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said sec-
tion mentioned.

Dated this 23rd day of May, 1895.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington,