Sept. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1707

Commissioner's Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 11th September, 1900.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to interpret the Customs and Excise Duties Acts in relation to the under-mentioned articles as follows:—

NOTE.—“Not otherwise enumerated” appears as n.o.e.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

NOTE.—The under-mentioned decisions were omitted from their proper alphabetical order in the revised book, and are now republished:—

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.

Commissioner’s Order No. 644.]

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1900.

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.

Mary Filmer, late of Onehunga, in the Provincial District of Auckland, married woman. Filed on the 4th day of September, 1900.

Rodger Stephenson, late of Blackball, in the Provincial District of Nelson, coal-miner. Filed on the 5th day of September, 1900.

Charles Leys, late of Ida Valley, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 5th day of September, 1900.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 26.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 12th September, 1900.

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:—

Wesleyan Methodist Church.

The Reverend William Bramwell Scott.

Baptists.

The Reverend J. C. Martin.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of August, 1900. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Generally fine during early part of month, wet weather from 14th to 24th, and strong N.W. wind; the maximum rainfall recorded on 23rd, 1·28 in.; showery end of month. Maximum temperature in shade 65°, minimum 37°; mean temperature of dew-point, 42·1°; mean humidity, 73.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1900.

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 (100,000 lb.) 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, 1903, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1904.