board; moleskin, cotton, in the piece; nitrate of silver; oil, candlenut; oil, cod-liver; oil, fish, whale, and seal, in bulk; oil, palm; oil, rhodium; paintings, statutary, and works of art, presented to or imported by any museum, public library, or other public institution for use therein, or for public exhibition; paints, n.e.s,; paper, for printing purposes only; paper, hand-male or machine-made book, or writing, of sizes not less than the size known as "demy," when in original wrappers, and with uncut edges as it leaves the mill; paper, albumenized; passengers' baggage and effects, including only wearing apparel and other personal effects that have been worn or are in use by persons arriving in the colony; also implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or bellows' nails; blacksmiths' bellows; blind webbing and tape; bookbinders' materials, viz.: cloth, leather, thread, head-bands, webbing, end papers tacketing gut, marbling colours, marble paper, blue paste for ruling ink, staple presses wire staples, staple sticks; boot elastic; boots, shoes, and slippers, namely, children's Nos. 0 to 3; borax; bottles of all kinds, empty; brace elastic and brace mountings; brass, in pigs, bars, tubes, or sheets; brass tubing and stamped work, in the rough for gasaliers and brackets; brush woodware; building materials, n.e. s.; bunting, suitable only for ships' flags; butter and cheese cloth; buttons, braids, tapes, wadding, pins, needles, and such minor articles required in the making-up of apparel, boots, shoes, hats, caps, saddlery, umbrellas, parasols and sunshades, as may be enume-employment of such persons, and household effects rated in any order of the commissioner, and not exceeding 1007. in value used abroad for more published in the Gazette; calicoes, white and grey, than a year by the person or families bringing in the piece; candlenuts and candlenut kernels; them to the colony, and not intended for any other candle wick; card or paste-board plain, of sizes person or persons or for sale; also cabin furnishings not less than that known as "royal;" card- belonging to such persons; peanuts for manufac board boxes, materials for, namely, gold ture of oil; pearl ash; potash and caustic potash; and silver paper, plain and embossed, gelatine perambulators, bicyles, tricycles, and the like and coloured papers known as box papers; car- vehicles, fittings for, n.e.s.; phosphorus; photoriage and cart makers' materials, viz., springs, graphic cameras and lenses; pitch and tar; plaster mountings, trimmings, brass hinges, bolts and nuts, of Paris; ploughs and harrows; powder, blasting; tacks, tirebolts, shackle-holders, and other iron fit- portable and traction engines; precious stones untings; rubber cloth and American cloth; carriage set; printed books, papers, and music, mes; and cart shafts, spokes and felloes in the rough, printing machinery, presses, type, and materials; elm hubs, poles if unbent and unplaned; chains, rails for railways and tramways; ros n; rivets and iron; charts and maps; churns; cochineal; cocoa washers of all kinds; saddlers' ironmongery, beans; cocoa nuts; coir; copper in pigs, bars, hames, and mounts for harness; straining surtubes, or sheets; copper and couposition rod, bolts, cingie brace girth and roller webs; collar-check, sheathing, and nails; corduroy; cotton, in the piece; legging buckles; saddle-trees; saffron; sago and cork soles; corn riddles and sieves; corn sacks; tapicoa; sailcloth; salt rock; saltpetre; schoolcotton waste; duck in the piece; dye stuffs and books, slates, and apparatus; scrub-exterminator; dyeing materials, crude; engineers' machine tools; scythes; sealskins, undressed; sewing, knitting, essential oils; felt sheathing; fire-engines; flour- and kilting machines; sewing cottons, silks, and mills, patent porcelain or steel roller; Forfar, threads; shale waste or unrefined mineral oil; dowlas, and flax sheeting in the piece (the fair sheep-dip; ship chandlery, n.e.s.; ships' rockets, market value of which does not exceed 7d. the blue lights, and danger signals; shirtings, coloured yard); forges; gas engines and hammers; gela-cotton, in the piece; shirtings, union, in the piece. tine dry plates; glassmakers' moulds; glycerine, crude; goatskins, undressed; gold size; grindery, except heel and toe plates; groats, prepared; gum arabic and tragacanth; gum boots; guttapercha, not being wearing apparel, and n.e.s.; hatmaker's materials, viz., silk plush, felt hoods, shellac, galloons, calicoes, and spale-boards for hat boxes; hessians; hickory, unwrought; hickory spokes and felloes; hogskins; hydraulic cranes; ink, printing; iron, boiler plate and end plates for bollers; iron, plain black sheet; iron plates, rivets, bolts, nuts, screws and castings for ships; iron, rod, bolt, bar, hoop, and pig; iron rolled girders; iron and steel cordage; iron wire, n.e.s.; iron wire netting; kangaroo skins, undressed; lead, in pigs or bars; leather, morocco, japanned, and enamelled; leather cloth; lignum vita; locomotives; maccaroni and vermicelli; machinery for agricultural purposes, n.e.s., also materials for manufacturing the same, viz.. reaper knife sections, fingers, brass and steel springs and tilt rakes, chaff cutting knives, set screws, malleable castings, fittings for threshingmills, discs for harrows, forgings for ploughs, mouldboard plates and steel share plates cut to pattern, and skeith plates; machinery for dairying purposes; machinery for mining purposes, including dredges and dreiging appliances; machinery for all refining and boring; machinery for refrigerating and preserving meat; machine saws; metal fittings for portmanteaus, travelling bags, and leggings; metal frames for bags and satchels ; metal sheaves for blocks; metallic capsules; mill the fair market value of which does not exceed 7d. per yard; silica fire bricks; silk, for flour-dressing; silk twist, shoemakers' and saddlers'; soda, caustic; soda, sulphate; soda-water machines; spades. shovels, and forks; spirits after being rendered not potable by manufacture into perfumery, or other articles, in the colony, in accordance with prescribed regulations; spirits of tar; staymakers' binding, eyelet-holes, corset-fasteners, jean, ticks, lasting sateen, and cotell; steam-engines, non-condensing, the area of whose cylinder or cylinders exceeds 1,000 circular inches, and condensing engines, the area of whose cylinders exceeds 2,500 circular inches; steam boiler tubes and Bowling's expansion rings; steel; stones, mill, grind, vil, and whet; strychnine; surveyors' steel bands; swords; tacks of all kinds; tailors' trimmings, viz., Verona and Italian cloth, black and brown canvas, buckram, wadding, padding, silk, worsted, and cotton bindings, and braids, stay bindings, hessians, brown linen, silesias, union body linings, jean, striped and checked drills, pocketings; tailors' buckles; tanning materials, crude; tin, pig, bar, or sheet; tinsmiths' fittings and planished furniture; tobacco for sheepwash, after being rendered unfit for human consumption, in accordance with prescribed regulations; tools, artificers; treacle and molasses, when mixed with boneblack in such proportions and under such regulations as the commissioner may prescribe in that behalf; umbrella makers' materials, namely, reversible and levantine silk mixtures, of not less than 44 inches in width, alpaca cloth, with border, zanella cloth, with border, sticks, runners, notches, caps, ferules, caps, ribs, stretchers, tips, and rings for use in the making of umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades; upholsterers' webbing, hair seating, imitation hair seating, curled hair, gimp, tufts, and studs ; waterproof material in the piece; wax, bottling; wire, brass, copper, and lead; yarn, coir, flax, and lead; zine, plain sheet. Articles and materials (as may from time to time be specified by the Commissioner) which are suited only for, and are to be used and applied solely in, the fabrication of goods within the colony; all decisions of the Commissioner on reference to articles so admitted free to be published from time to time in the Gazette. And all articles not otherwise enumerated. Gross public debt, 31st March, 1889, 38,375,050. Accrued sinking fund, 31st March, 1889, 1,395,3897. Nett public debt, 36,979,6617. Governors of New Zealand. 1840 Captain W. Hobson, R.N. 1842 W. Shortland (Acting Governor). 1843 Captain Robert Fitzroy, R.N. 1854 Col. R. H. Wynyard, C.B. (Acting Governor). 1845 Sir George Grey, K.C.B. 1855 Col. Sir Thomas Gore Browne, K.C.M.G., C.B. 1861 Sir Geo. Grey, K.C.B. 1868 Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G. 1873 The Right Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Bart., K.C.M.G., P.C. 1874 The Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G., P.C. 1879 Sir Hercules G. R. Robinson, G.C.M.G 1880 Sir Arthur H. Gordon, G.C.M.G. 188 1889 Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B., R.E. The Earl of Onslow, G.C.M.G. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Speaker, Sir W. Fitzherbert, K.C.M.G., 6007. Chairman of Committees, W. D. H. Baillie, 3007. Former Ministries. Premier. Henry Sewell 1884 8,707,488 Date of Assumption. 7th May, 185€. 20th May, 1856. William Fox Edward William Stafford William Fox Frederick Whitaker Hon. Edward William Stafford Sir Julius Vogel, K C.M.G. Total. £ 8,374,585 6,162,011 7,457,045 8,609,270 7,974,038 7,663,888 Frederick Whitaker 7,479,921 Harry Albert Atkinson 6,759,013 Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Hon. John Hall K.C.M.G. Acland, J. B. A. Baillie, W. D. H. Barnicoat, J. W. 2nd June, 1856. 12th July, 1861. 6th August, 1862. 30th October, 1863. 24th November, 1864. 16th October, 1865. 28th June, 1869. 10th September, 1872. 11th October, 1872. 3rd March, 1873. 8th April, 1873. 6th July, 1875. 15th February, 1876. 1st September, 1876. 13th September, 1876. 15th October, 1877. 8th October 1879. 21st April. 1882. 25th September, 1883. 16th August, 1-84. 28th August, 1884. 3rd September, 1884. 8th October, 1887. Members. Kenny, C. W. A. T. Lahmann, H. H. Mantell, W. B. D. Martin, J. McLean, G. Bonar, J. A. 6,060,866 Buckley, P. A. 6,658,008 Campbell, R. Dignan, P. 1888 5,708,517 517,675 7,095,999 270,797 7,091,667 507,733 6,819,939 326,698 6,672,791 496,772 6,866.169 7,767,325 • Exclusive of charges for sinking fund met by deben tures raised for an equivalent amount. Miller, H. J. Morris, G: B. Peacock, J. T. Peter, W. S. Fitzherbert, Sir William, Oliver, R. K.C.M.G. Fraser, T. Grace. M. S. Hart, R. Holmes, M Johnson, G. R. Pharazyn, Robert COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. Engineer in Chief, and Marine Engineer (vacant). Colonial Secretary, The Hon. W. R. Russell, 8007., Assistant Engineer in Chief, W. N. Blair, M.Ius . C.E., ' and house allowance 2007. Under-Secretary, G. S. Cooper, 7501. TREASURY. Treasurer, Hon. Sir H. A. Atkinson, K.C.M.G., 1,000l., and residence. Secretary to Treasury, Receiver-General and Paymaster-General, J. Č. Gavin, 7507. Assistant Secretary and Accountant, J. B. Heywood, 5097. 7501. Chief Draughtsman, H. Wigg, 3507. WORKING RAILWAYS DEPARTMENT. The New Zealand Railway Commissioners, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND PATENT OFFICE. Engineer, J. Henry Lowe, 7001. Locomotive Superintendent, T. F. Roterham, 7007. Surveyor-General, also Secretary for Crown Lands, Minister, Hon G. F. Richardson. S. P. Smith. Office Surveyor, A. Barron, 5501. POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT. Under Secretary, H. J. H. Eliott. STAMP OFFICE. Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Telegraphs, Commissioner, Hon. E. Mitchelson. Hon. E. Mitchelson. Superintendent, C. Lemon, 7007. Secretary, W. Gray, 6007 Inspector of Post Offices, Thomas Rose, 475l. Chief Clerk, R. J. Goodman, 375l. Postmaster, Auckland, S. B. Biss. Ditto, Wellington, (vacant). Ditto, Christchurch, S. J. Dick. Ditto, Dunedin, E. D. Butts. Secretary, also Commissioner of Property Tax, J. Chief Clerk, C. A. St. G. Hickson, 4007. PROPERTY TAX DEPARTMENT. Registrar, Dunedin, E. W. Carew. Dito, Invercargill, H. McCulloch. Property Tax Commissioner, also Secretary of Ditto, Stewart Island, J. B. Greig. Stamps, J. Sperrey, 6001. Deputy Commissioner, C. M. Crombie, 4507. Chief Clerk, J. McGowan, 3751. Ditto, Chatham Islands, S. Deighton. CUSTOMS. Collectors of Customs, Auckland, T. Hill. Ditto, Dunedin, C. W. S. Chamberlain. BISHOPS. Church of England. Wellington, Octavius Hadfield, D.D. Waiapu, Edward Craig Stuart, B.A. Auckland, William Garden Cowie, D.D. Nelson, Andrew Burn Suter, D.D., Primate-elect. Dunedin, S. T. Nevill, D.D. Foreign Consuls. Netherlands, Consul-General, Chevalier Daniel Ploos Van Amstel (Melbourne), Consul, Charles John Johnston (Wellington), ViceConsuls, Edward Bowes Cargill (Dunedin), David Boosie Cruickshank (Auckland). Belgium, Consul-General, Gustave Beckx (Melbourne), Consular Agent, Charles John Johnston (Wellington). Italy, Consul, Giovanni Branchí (Melbourne), Consular Agents. Alexander Cracroft Wilson (Christchurch), George Fisher (Wellington), Edward Bowes Cargill (Dunedin), Dr. Francesco Rossetti (Hokitika), Geraldo Giuseppe Perotti (Greymouth), John McEffer Shera (Auckland). German Empire, Consul-General, Dr. Gustave Travers (Sydney), Consuls, Henry Houghton (Dunedin), Johann Frederick August Kelling (Nelson), H. Simms (Christchurch), A. Castendyck (Wellington), Hermann Browne (Auckland). Government Printer and Store Manager, G. Dids- France, Consul-General, vacant (Sydney), Vicebury, 4501. JUDICIAL. Supreme Court Judges. Chief Justice, Wellington, Nelson, and Westland, Sir J. Prendergast, 1,7001. Paisne Judges, Auckland, T. B. Gillies, 1,5007. Wellington, Nelson, and Marlborough, Canterbury and Westland, J. E. Denniston, Otago, J. S. Williams, 1,500. District Court Judges, New Plymouth, Hawera, Nelson, Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport, Canterbury and Otago, C. D. R. Ward, 900/. Registrar of the Supreme Court, Auckland, H. C. Brewer. Ditto, Wellington, and Registrar of Court of Appeal, D. G. A. Cooper. Ditto, Christchurch, A. Bloxam. Ditto, Dunedin, C. M. Gordon. Resident Magistrate, Auckland, J. Giles. Ditto, Wellington, &c., H. W. Robinson. Ditto, Christchurch, R. Beetham. Sweden Consul, Wellington, D. de Lostalot de Denmark, Consul, Franz Kummer (Auckland), |