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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Fog-signals.—CAPE OTWAY AND CLIFFY ISLAND.

WITH reference to Notice to Mariners dated 6th February, 1889, regarding fog-signals at the above stations, it is hereby notified that until further notice one rocket will be fired at intervals of ten minutes, instead of five-minute intervals as at present.

By order.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Port Officer.

Harbour Office, Customs,
Melbourne, 2nd February, 1898.

HOPETOUN CHANNEL, PORT OF GEELONG.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners dated 4th July, 1895, it is hereby notified that, owing to shoaling in the vicinity of No. 4 Beacon, the navigable depth of water in the Hopetoun Channel is reduced to twenty-two (22) feet at ordinary low water.

Chart affected: No. 2731; Australia Directory, Vol. i., page 473.

ARTIFICIAL CUT AND SOUTH CHANNEL, GEELONG.

It is hereby notified that the navigable depth of water in the Artificial Cut and South Channel, Geelong, is reduced to sixteen and a half (16½) feet at ordinary low water.

Chart affected: No. 2731; Australia Directory, Vol. i., page 471.

By order.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Port Officer.

Harbour Office, Customs,
Melbourne, 8th February, 1898.

Decorative Distinction conferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to award the Decorative Distinction instituted by Order in Council dated the 10th day of March, 1869, to

HARRY CHARLES WILLIAM WRIGG, Esq.,
late Cornet, Bay of Plenty Cavalry Volunteers, in consideration of his having, on the 29th June, 1867, with Trooper McDonald, voluntarily carried despatches from Lieut.-Colonel John H. H. St. John, then at Opotiki, to Lieut.-Colonel Philip Harrington, at Tauranga, through country infested by the Native tribes then at war with the British.

T. THOMPSON.

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

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and any amendment thereof, and also of “The Government Railways Act, 1894,” I, Alfred Jerome Cadman, the Minister for Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in the scale of fares, rates, and charges in force on the New Zealand Government railways open for traffic, such alterations to come into force on and after the 21st day of March, 1898:—

PART I.—PASSENGERS.

GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.

Reg. 31. School-parties, Factories, and Friendly Societies.

Clause 8 is hereby cancelled, and the following substituted, viz.:—

School-excursion trains will be run conditionally on the committee arranging the excursion undertaking to place at least two adults, either teachers or other persons, in charge of each carriage, to maintain order and prevent children from riding on the carriage-platforms. The number of adult passengers, exclusive of teachers, carried at these fares by any school-excursion train must not exceed the number of children carried by the same train. The committee must undertake the sale of all tickets, and all responsibility for the value of same.

As witness my hand, this sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, City of Wellington.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1898.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 23rd day of February, 1898, for the election of a Member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of the City of Wellington, and by the indorsement of such writ it appears that

JOHN DUTHIE

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

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Notice to Imprestees under “The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1898.

EVERY officer holding advances of public money is hereby required to pay to the Public Account, at the nearest branch of the Bank of New Zealand, the unexpended balance in his hand on or before Thursday, the 31st March proximo, and forthwith to transmit to the Treasury at Wellington the bank-receipt for such repayment, together with an account of his expenditure to the same date, as required by clause 4 of the Treasury Regulations.

As respects disbursements which officers may require to make immediately after the close of the financial year, requisitions for the amount required are to be made in such time as to enable them to reach Wellington not later than the 16th March, so that the requisite funds may be placed at the disposal of the officer on the 1st April.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1900, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1901.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Memorandum to Receivers of Public Moneys.

WITH a view to the early completion of the Treasury accounts of the current financial year ending on Thursday, the 31st instant, Receivers are directed to prepare copies of their cash-books for a special period to end on that day, and to transmit the same by post to the Receiver-General immediately after the close of the bank on that date.

The account for the special period is to include all receipts after bank hours on Saturday, the 26th March, and the whole of the subsequent transactions up to the time when the bank closes on Thursday, the 31st instant.

Officers who render four-weekly accounts will extend their account to Thursday, the 31st instant, so as to embrace all transactions from the closing of the bank on the 26th February to the 31st March.

If any bank receipts for moneys paid in on or before the 31st instant are received from sub-offices after copies of cash-books have been posted, Receivers are directed to enter all such receipts in a supplementary account, and to transmit a copy thereof to the Receiver-General on the same day.

The first ordinary account for the new year shall be for the period from the 1st to the 9th April, both inclusive, and is only to contain such revenue as may have been paid to the Public Account subsequent to the 31st instant, or collected after bank hours on that date.

The first four-weekly account shall be for the period from the 1st to the 23rd April, both inclusive.

Receivers are requested to take great care that the copies of their cash-books to be rendered during the current month are promptly posted.

The foregoing instructions are also to apply to deposits and law trust accounts.

JAMES B. HEYWOOD,
Receiver-General.

The Treasury, Wellington, 1st March, 1898.