Aug. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1181

(Circular.) Downing Street, 1st June, 1895.

Sir,—I have the honour to transmit to you for your information, and for publication in the colony under your government, the accompanying copy of a Proclamation of the Queen in Council, ordaining that the coins of bronze or mixed metal with the new design therein described shall be current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

I have, &c.,
RIPON.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA, R.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the thirty-third year of our reign, intituled “An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Coinage and Her Majesty’s Mint,” it is amongst other things enacted:

That We, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, shall from time to time by Proclamation determine the design of any coin:

We have therefore thought fit to order that the coins of bronze or mixed metal made at our Mint which are mentioned in the First Schedule to the aforesaid Act, of the weight specified in that Schedule, shall bear designs as follows:—

That every penny should have for the obverse impression our effigy, with the inscription “Victoria Dei. Gra. Britt. Regina Fid. Def., Ind. Imp.,” and for the reverse impression the figure of Britannia seated upon a rock in the sea, her right hand holding a shield which rests against the rock, while in her left hand she grasps a trident, and the inscription “One Penny,” with the date of the year and a plain edge; and that every halfpenny should have the same obverse impression and inscription, and for the reverse the figure of Britannia seated as described for the penny, and the inscription “Halfpenny,” with the date of the year and a plain edge; and that every Farthing should have the same obverse impression and inscription, and for the reverse the figure of Britannia seated as described for the penny, and the inscription “Farthing,” with the date of the year and a plain edge.

And whereas pieces of money of the above descriptions respectively have been coined at our Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of orders which we have given for that purpose, We have therefore, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, thought fit to issue this our Royal Proclamation, and we do hereby ordain, declare, and command that the said pieces of money respectively so coined and to be coined as aforesaid shall be current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and that this our Royal Proclamation shall come into operation on the date hereof.

Given at our Court at Windsor, this eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and in the fifty-eighth year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Expiration of Treaty of Commerce with Uruguay.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 31st July, 1895.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the treaty of commerce between Great Britain and the Republic of Uruguay signed on the 13th November, 1885, will expire on the 22nd May, 1896, being ten years from the date of ratification.

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

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 containing 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, Wellington, 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.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, City of Auckland District.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1895.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 4th July, 1895, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of City of Auckland, and by the indorsement of such writ it appears that

THOMAS THOMPSON

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Election of Trustee of Sluggish River Land Drainage District, Manawatu.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1895.

THE following result of election of a Trustee of the Sluggish River Land Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893.”

HUGH POLLEN.

Sluggish River Land Drainage District :
Matthew Morrison.

Officiating Ministers for 1895.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 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 intituled “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 Christopher Gerard Robinson, Canon.
The Reverend Hugh Stanley Leech.
The Reverend Charles Anderson Fraer.

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, 30th July, 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 several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

William Callender, late of Mataura, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 23rd day of July, 1895.

John Cox, late of Marton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 23rd day of July, 1895.

James Watters, late of Coromandel, in the Provincial District of Auckland, miner. Filed on the 23rd day of July, 1895.

George Albert Briand, late of Whakatu, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, labourer. Filed on the 29th day of July, 1895.

Lawrence Temple Hip pesley, late of Matakoe, in the Provincial District of Auckland, teacher. Filed on the 29th day of July, 1895.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.