Dec. 3.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PART VI.-WHARVES.

WHANGAREI RAILWAY WHARVES.

By omitting the following :-

On goods and live-stock loaded from or into ships, but
not conveyed to or from the wharves by railway, and on
goods conveyed by railway to or from the wharves and
shipped to or from Auckland, the following rates shall be
paid by the owners, masters, or agents of vessels :—

And substituting-

On goods and live-stock loaded from or into ships, but
not conveyed to or from the wharves by railway, and on
goods (except coal) conveyed by railway to or from the
wharves and shipped to or from Auckland, the following
rates shall be paid by the owners, masters, or agents of
vessels :-

PART VII.—GENERAL.

By adding to Regulation 10 the following :-

31. The Department will not receive live poultry for
    carriage except in properly constructed coops, cases, or
    crates of a suitable size.

As witness my hand this 3rd day of December, 1925.

F. H. D. BELL,

Acting for Minister of Railways.

Despatch, Nobel Peace Prize, 1926.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st December, 1925.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of
State for Dominion Affairs, is published for general
information.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.-Dominions No. 432.)

Downing Street, 29th September, 1925.

SIR,-With reference to my predecessor's despatch, Dominions
No. 483 of the 6th October, 1924, I have the honour to

transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your
Ministers, copies of a circular issued by the Nobel Committee
of the Norwegian Parliament regarding nominations for the
Nobel Peace Prize for 1926.

2. I should be glad if your Ministers would cause the
   conditions of the prize to be made known to those bodies
   and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.

I have, &c.,

L.S. AMERY.

Governor-General, His Excellency General Sir C. Fergusson,
Bart., LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O. &c.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which
is to be distributed December 10th, 1926, must, in order to
be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Com-
mittee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified
person before the first of February of the same year.

Anyone of the following persons is held to be duly qualified :
(a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of
the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed
at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) members of Parlia-
ment and members of Government of the different States, as
well as members of the Interparliamentary Union ; (c) mem-
bers of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague ;
(d) members of the Commission of the Permanent Inter-
national Peace Bureau; (e) members and associates of the
Institute of International Law; (f) university professors of
political science and of law, of history and of philosophy;
and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to insti-
tutions or associations.

According to the Code of Statutes, par. 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 par. 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 Parlia-
ment, Drammensvei 19, Oslo.

[NOTE.-See page 1278 of New Zealand Gazette No. 57, of
1901, for first notice respecting this bequest.]

Mining Privileges to be struck off the Registers.—Notice under the Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

Mining Registrar's Office, Hokitika and Kumara, 18th November, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of section 30 (3) of the Mining Amendment Act, 1914, that the
mining privileges mentioned in the Schedule hereto will, unless sufficient cause to the contrary be shown within three
months from the date hereof, be struck off the Register.

L. W. LOUISSON, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Hokitika Registry.

1616 | 18/8/05 | Residence-site .. | Rimu | James O'Connor.
1766 | 14/9/06 | Extended claim .. | " | Peter Fisher.
2160 | 26/2/09 | Special claim .. | Mount Graham .. | L.B. and G. S. Maben and W. R. Cook.
3255 | 20/10/15 | Residence-site .. | Rimu | James Griffin.
1172 | 9/10/03 | Special claim .. | Hokitika .. | Montezuma Gold - dredging Company
4276 | 19/7/23 | Extended alluvial claim | Kanieri Forks .. | Neil Nicholson.
4288 | 2/8/23 | " | " | "

Stafford Registry.

883 | 15/3/06 | Special claim .. | Middle Branch Flat .. | James Shannon.
1021 | 17/10/07 | Residence-site .. | Tunnel Terrace .. | John Barretta.
1115 | 19/11/08 | " | Callaghans | John R. Honey.
1148 | 26/1/09 | Extended claim .. | " | John Reedy.
1183 | 22/6/09 | Special claim .. | Middle Branch Flat .. | Joseph Carmine.
1262 | 21/4/10 | Residence-site .. | Tunnel Terrace .. | Patrick Rowland.
19298 | 21/3/77 | " | Camp Reserve .. | Samuel Stewart.
1275 | 19/5/10 | " | Tunnel Terrace .. | Paul Arnerich.
1456 | 19/9/12 | " | Italian Gully .. | Arthur William Honey.
1563 | 17/4/14 | Special claim .. | Liverpool Bill's .. | Ah Hung and Lock Chung.