branch of the Service to another without proper Letters or Warrants of Appointment, and also of cases where Letters of Appointment had been issued without previous payment of the Stamp Duty, would draw attention to the circumstance that all unstamped appointments are invalid, and that the Appointees may become liable to the penalties in the Statute for unstamped documents.

Heads of Departments are also informed that all appointments whatsoever, whether liable to duty or not, should be submitted for assessment to the Commissioner, when the duty exigible will be noted on the instrument of appointment, which will thereupon be returned to the Department forwarding it. The amounts so assessed will be collected as at present. If no duty be payable, the fact will be so noted.

Attention is specially directed to the circumstance that after this date the Commissioners of Audit and the various Provincial Auditors will decline to pass the salary of any officer on whose appointment duty is payable, unless the terms of this notice be complied with.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 5th February, 1875.

THE following lists of successful and unsuccessful Tenderers are published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

BLUFF AND WINTON, WINTON AND KINGSTON INVERCARGILL & MATAURA RAILWAYS.

100,000 SLEEPERS.

s. d.
Accepted.
Angus & Co., Invercargill ...... 50,000 at 3 0
Erskine & Co., Invercargill ... 20,000 ,, 3 0
Calder & Blacklock, Invercargill ... 15,000 ,, 3 0
Thomas Brown, Invercargill ... 15,000 ,, 3 0

Declined.
J. H. Smith, Invercargill ...... 15,000 ,, 3 1

Registrar of Marriages &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th February, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN RYAN, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and also Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Hampden, as the same is defined in Proclamation of the 7th day of November, 1873, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 66, of the 13th day of November, 1873.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

OTAGO RAILWAYS.

TIME TABLE FOR MARCH, 1875.

Trains will leave the undermentioned Stations as follows :-

LEAVES—
A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M.
Dunedin ... 7.0 10.5 12.15 2.30 4.45 6.30
Pelichet Bay ... 7.5 10.10 12.20 2.35 4.50 6.35
Ravensbourne ... 7.10 10.15 12.25 ... 4.55 6.40
Burke’s Brewery 7.15 10.20 12.30 ... 5.0 6.45
St. Leonards ... 7.20 ... 12.35 ... 5.5 6.50
Glendermid ... 7.30 ... 12.45 ... 5.15 7.0
Arrives Pt. Chal. ... 7.35 10.35 12.50 3.0 5.20 7.5

LEAVES—
Port Chalmers ... 8.55 11.0 1.30 3.30 5.30 7.15
Glendermid ... 9.0 11.5 ... ... 5.35 7.20
St. Leonards ... 9.10 11.15 ... ... 5.45 7.30
Burke’s Brewery... 9.15 11.20 1.45 ... 5.50 7.35
Ravensbourne ... 9.20 11.25 1.50 ... 5.55 7.40
Pelichet Bay ... 9.25 11.30 1.55 3.15 6.0 7.45
Arrives Dunedin... 9.30 11.35 2.0 4.0 6.5 7.50

SUNDAY TRAINS.

LEAVES—
A.M. P.M. P.M.
Dunedin ... ... ... 9.30 2.30 4.0
Pelichet Bay ... ... ... 9.35 2.35 4.5
Ravensbourne ... ... ... 9.40 2.40 ...
Burke’s Brewery ... ... ... 9.45 2.45 4.15
St. Leonards ... ... ... 9.50 2.50 ...
Glendermid ... ... ... 10.0 3.0 ...
Arrives at Port Chalmers ... ... ... 10.5 3.5 4.30

LEAVES—
Port Chalmers ... ... ... 10.10 3.15 5.0
Glendermid ... ... ... 10.15 ... 5.5
St. Leonards ... ... ... 10.25 ... 5.15
Burke’s Brewery ... ... ... 10.30 3.30 5.20
Ravensbourne ... ... ... 10.35 ... 5.25
Pelichet Bay ... ... ... 10.40 3.40 5.30
Arrives at Dunedin ... ... ... 10.45 3.45 5.35

Return Tickets, 2s. 6d.

DUNEDIN AND CLUTHA RAILWAY.

LEAVES—
A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M.
Dunedin ... 7.15 7.40 9.5 1.30 4.15 5.20
Caversham ... 7.25 7.48 9.12 1.37 4.22 5.27
Arrives G. Island... 8.0 9.25 1.50 4.35 5.40

LEAVES—
Green Island ... 8.30 9.40 3.0 4.45 5.50
Caversham ... 7.27 8.43 9.53 3.13 4.58 6.3
Arrives Dunedin... 7.35 8.50 10.0 3.20 5.5 6.10

A Passenger Train will leave Dunedin daily at 7.30 for Pelichet Bay and Ravensbourne, returning therefrom immediately.

SOUTHERN RAILWAYS.

A.M. A.M. P.M.
Invercargill to Bluff ... 7.15 ... 2.30
,, Winton ... 7.30 ... 4.0
,, Woodlands ... 8.30 ... 3.0

A.M. P.M. P.M.
Bluff to Invercargill ... 8.45 ... 4.0
Winton to Invercargill ... 9.0 ... 4.30
Woodlands to Invercargill... 10.0 ... 4.30

• Monday, Wednesday, Friday; and 10 a.m., 6 p.m.,
  Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.

WM. CONYERS,
General Manager.

FARES.

TO AND FROM PORT CHALMERS.

Single. Return.
First Class... 2s. 0d. | First Class ... 3s. 0d.
Second Class... 1s. 6d. | Second Class ... 2s. 0d.

TO AND FROM DUNEDIN AND PELICHET BAY.

Single. Return.
First Class...... 6d. | First Class ... 9d.
Second Class ... 4d. | Second Class ... 6d.

TO AND FROM DUNEDIN AND GREEN ISLAND.

Single. Return.
First Class ... 1s. 6d. | First Class ... 2s. 6d.
Second Class ... 1s. 0d. | Second Class ... 1s. 6d.

TO AND FROM DUNEDIN AND CAVERSHAM.

Single. Return.
First Class ... 6d. | First Class ... 9d.
Second Class ... 4d. | Second Class ... 6d.

TO AND FROM CAVERSHAM AND GREEN ISLAND.

Single. Return.
First Class ... 1s. | First Class ... 1s. 6d.
Second Class ... 9d. | Second Class ... 1s.

DUNEDIN :
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by COULLS & CULLING, of Rattray-street, Printers to said Provincial Government for the time being.