Issue of Imperial Volunteer Officers' Decoration.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd January, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the issue of the Imperial Volunteer
Officers' Decoration to

Major JOHN ALBERT YOUNG,

Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers, and
Quartermaster on the Unattached Active List, New Zealand
Volunteers, he having a total broken efficient service to the
16th January, 1895, of 23 years 128 days.

W. P. REEVES,
For Defence Minister.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd January, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ac-
cept the resignation of the commission held by the
under-mentioned officer:—

Wairoa Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Captain Harry Alfred Lomax. Date of resignation, 12th
January, 1895.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officer promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd January, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the under-mentioned appointment and pro-
motion:—

Waimate Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Peter Grant to be Captain. Date of commission,
12th December, 1894.

R. J. SEDDON.

Tenders for Farewell Spit Tower.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1895.

THE following tenders for wrought ironwork for light-
house tower, Farewell Spit, have been received:—

Accepted.

£ s. d.
J. and A. Anderson, Canterbury Foundry,
Christchurch .. .. .. .. 823 6 0

Declined.

Despatch Foundry Company (Limited), Grey-
mouth .. .. .. .. 842 0 0
W. Cable and Co., Lion Foundry, Wellington 1,750 0 0
S. Luke and Sons, Te Aro Foundry, Wellington 1,750 0 0

W. P. REEVES,
For Minister of Marine.

Notice as to the Day for closing under "The Shops and
Shop-assistants Act, 1894."

WHEREAS the local authorities respectively mentioned
in the first column of the Schedule hereto have
duly notified to me that the days upon which the shops in
their respective districts shall be closed, pursuant to the
provisions of "The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,"
are the days set opposite their respective names in the second
column of the said Schedule: Now, therefore, in exercise
of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the said
Act, I, William Pember Reeves, Minister of Labour, do
hereby appoint that the said respective days shall be the days
upon which all shops within the said respective districts shall
be closed.

SCHEDULE.

Mosgiel .. .. .. Thursday.
Christchurch .. .. Thursday.
Ross .. .. .. Wednesday.
Tauranga .. .. Thursday.
Outram .. .. Saturday.
Thames .. .. Thursday.
Nelson .. .. Wednesday.
Greytown North .. Saturday.
Blenheim .. .. Wednesday.
Woodville .. .. Wednesday.
Stratford .. .. Thursday.
Ashburton .. .. Thursday.
Cambridge .. .. Wednesday.
Rangiora .. .. Thursday.
Lyttelton .. .. Thursday.
Wanganui .. .. Thursday.
Baldutha .. .. Thursday.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of January, 1895.
W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Labour.

Cemetery Trustee, Makaraka Cemetery, resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th January, 1895.

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

The Venerable Archdeacon W. L. WILLIAMS
as a Trustee of the Makaraka Cemetery.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a School.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of "The West Coast Settlements Act,
1892," and "The Public Works Act, 1894," to execute a
certain public work, to wit, the construction of a school,
on Subdivision No. 1 of Section 59, Block I., Hawera Survey
District, and for the purposes of such public work the land
described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken;
and notice is further given that the plan of the land so
required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Nor-
manby, and is there open for inspection. And notice is
hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of
the said public work or by the taking of the said land shall,
if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution
of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set
forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within
forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the
Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

Approximate
Area of
the Parcel
of Land
required to be
taken.
Being
Situated in
Block No.
Survey
District of

A. R. P.
5 0 0
Subdivision No.
1 of Section
No. 59
I.
Hawera.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this ninth day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
five.

W. P. REEVES,
For Minister for Public Works.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Land in the
Nelson Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under
the authority of "The Nelson Waste Lands Act, 1874," and
its amendments, that the road described in the Schedule
hereto was, on the 1st August, 1894, duly taken and laid off
through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the
authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant
dated the 3rd July, 1894.

SCHEDULE.

Road through Section 78, Square 8, Takaka.

All that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District, con-
taining by admeasurement 1 acre 1 rood 12 perches, more or
less, being a road-line 100 links wide, traversing the western
portion of Section No. 78, Square 8, Takaka Survey District,
the western side of which commences at a point on the
southern boundary-line of said Section No. 78 distant 255
links from its south-west corner, and extends in a north-
easterly direction for a distance of 1330·3 links to the south-
ern boundary-line of Section No. 42, at a point 900·8 links
distant from the south-east corner of that section; as the
same is particularly delineated upon a plan marked S.G.
22948, deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office at
Nelson, and thereon coloured pink.

Dated this 16th day of January, 1895.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

By-law regulating Traffic on the Otira Gorge Bridges, on
the Hokitika-Christchurch Road.

WHEREAS the bridges mentioned in the Schedule
below (and hereinafter referred to as "the said
bridges") are on a Government road, and are under the