Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2755

According to the Code of Statutes, § 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to.

According to § 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.

For particulars qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Victoria Terrasse 4, Kristiania.

The Civil Service of India: Clerkships.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th November, 1904.

THE following alterations to the regulations for the admission of candidates to the Civil Service of India are published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

(Extract from the London Gazette, 30th August, 1904.)
India Office, 25th August, 1904.

“Rules Publication Act, 1893.”

IN conformity with the provisions of the statute 56 and 57 Victoria, cap. 66, notice is hereby given that the Secretary of State for India in Council proposes, with the advice and assistance of the Civil Service Commissioners, at the expiration of forty days from the date of this Gazette, to make alterations as shown below in the regulations for the admission of candidates to the Civil Service of India, under section 32 of the statute 21 and 22 Victoria, cap. 106.

For Regulation 2, head (ii.), which at present stands as follows,—

“That he had attained the age of twenty-one, and had not attained the age of twenty-three, on the first day of the year in which the examination is held,”

it is proposed to substitute the following, that is to say,—

“That he had attained the age of twenty-two, and had not attained the age of twenty-four, on the first day of August of the year in which the examination is held.”

It is intended that the changes should come into force for the Open Competitive Examination of 1906 and subsequent years.

Copies of the foregoing proposed new rules may be obtained from the Secretary, Judicial and Public Department, India Office.

Christchurch City Council’s Abattoir made available for the Purposes of Part of Selwyn County.—Notice No. 915.

IN pursuance of section 15, subsection 6 (a), of “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900,” it is hereby notified that the abattoir established by the Christchurch City Council for the district comprising the City of Christchurch and the Boroughs of New Brighton, Sumner, and Woolston, has, by agreement between the said City Council and the Selwyn County Council, been made available for the purposes of the district comprising the part of Selwyn County described in the Schedule hereto, and that the Christchurch City Council is the controlling authority of the said abattoir.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land within the Christchurch and Halswell Survey Districts bounded by the estuary of the Avon and Heathcote at the north-west boundary of the Borough of Sumner, along the western boundary of that borough to its junction with the northern boundary of the Borough of Lyttelton, along the northern boundary of that borough, and following from thence the summit of the hills to Cass Peak; thence in a direct line to Burke’s Bush Road, following Burke’s Bush Road to its junction with the Lincoln Road and the Halswell River, following the Halswell River, touching the Lincoln Road at Sections 116 and 1593, thence following Lincoln Road to the road dividing Section 407; thence to Saby’s Road and Marshes Road, and along Marshes Road to its junction with Springs Road; thence to the Main South Road at the southernmost corner of Section 885, thence along the western boundary of that section to Factory Road, thence following that road to the road forming the western boundary of Section 2113; thence to Buchanan’s Road, to Junction Road, to Yaldhurst Road; thence to Kaiapoi Junction Road, along that road to the Harewood Road, along Harewood Road to the River Styx, following the River Styx to the road dividing Sections 21011 and 16753; thence by that road to the ocean beach, along the ocean beach to the northern boundary of the Borough of Sumner, along the northern and western boundaries of that borough to the River Avon, and following that river to the estuary; thence along the estuary of the Avon and Heathcote to the western boundary of the Borough of Sumner: save and excepting the Boroughs of Woolston and Greater Christchurch.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Officers appointed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, 12th November, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments in the Post and Telegraph Department.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

PERMANENT.