which it is calculated that there are now at least
40,000 tons of guano. Such tenders must be sent in
to the Colonial Secretary, Perth, Western Australia,
on or before the 15th October next, but the Government
does not bind itself to accept the highest or
any tender.

All tenders will have to state the price or royalty
offered per ton for the guano (1) if shipped in the
natural state; (2) if artificially prepared, dried, or
sifted before shipment.

The person whose tender may be accepted (hereinafter spoken of as "the contractor") will have to
bind himself to the following conditions:—

1. To remove the whole of the guano that there
   may be on the Islands.

2. To take it away at the minimum rate of
   twenty thousand tons a year.

3. To remove the guano in such a manner and
   from such places as may be from time to time
   pointed out by the Government Officer
   stationed on the Islands; and the contract
   will contain a clause providing that in case of
   the breach or neglect of these conditions, the
   contract shall be void, and the contractor
   shall forfeit all buildings, erections, and plant
   that he may have set up on any of the Islands,
   and also the sum of two thousand pounds
   hereinafter mentioned.

The contractor will be required, within seven days
after receiving a notification by telegraph or otherwise that his tender is accepted, and before the issue
of any license, to deposit in the hands of the Western
Australian Government, or of such person as they
may name as their agent in this behalf, the sum of
two thousand pounds, as security for the due performance of the contract, and this sum will be retained by the Government until the termination of
the contract, and will be liable to forfeiture as hereinbefore mentioned. He will also be required at the
same time to pay a like sum of two thousand pounds,
by way of royalty, in advance. The contractor will
at no time be at liberty to remove any guano unless
the royalty agreed upon has been paid, and no less
sum than two thousand pounds will be accepted at
any time in payment of royalty until such time as
there is left on the Islands a quantity of guano the
agreed royalty on which shall be less than two thousand pounds.

The only instructions that will be given to the
Government Officer stationed on the Islands, and
which he will be required to insist upon with regard
to the manner in which and places from which the
guano shall be removed, will be to divide the Islands
into convenient sections, to point out the section or
sections from which guano may be removed, and to
require that the whole of any one section be cleared
before any new ground is entered on.

The quantity of guano taken by each ship on
which royalty has to be paid shall be ascertained by
adding twenty-five per cent. to the registered tonnage of timber-built ships, and forty per cent. to the
registered tonnage of iron-built ships: Provided that,
if the captain or agent of any ship, or the Government Officer, shall in any instance be dissatisfied
with the foregoing arrangement, he shall be at liberty
to cause the ship to be exactly measured according
to Lloyd's rules, and the number of cubical feet so
ascertained, divided by forty, shall be taken to be the
tonnage capacity of the ship.

No tonnage, light, or harbour dues will be charged
in any port of the colony on ships solely engaged in
the guano trade, and no Customs duties will be levied
on goods and stores that may be landed on the Islands
for persons solely employed in the preparation and
shipment of guano.

The contractor will be at liberty to erect on any
or all of the Islands any buildings, jetties, tramways,
&c., and, subject to the conditions before expressed
as to forfeiture, to remove the same at any time
within six months of the termination of the contract.

No license for the shipment of guano under the
regulations now in force will be granted after the
15th August next, and every such license granted
after the date hereof will provide for the compulsory
removal of the guano for the shipment of which it is
the permit before the 15th October next.

It will at all times be optional with the licensee to
ship the guano in its natural state, or artificially
prepared, dried, or sifted.

The contract to be entered into in pursuance of
this notice shall be deemed to commence on the 1st
January, 1879.

Each tender, unless otherwise expressed, shall be
deemed to be open to acceptance by the Government
for the space of one calendar month from the 15th
October, and the Government shall be at liberty to
accept any tender by notifying to the person making
it, by telegraph, that his tender is accepted. Any
person who shall tender, and, on his tender being
accepted, shall fail to pay the two several sums of
two thousand pounds, as hereinbefore set forth, shall
be deemed to have broken his contract, and the Government shall thereupon be at liberty to accept any
other tender, and to hold such person responsible for
all loss consequent on his breach of contract.

By His Excellency's command.

MALCOLM FRASER,

Surveyor-General,

(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Perth, 9th May, 1878.

Auditor appointed for Clutha River Conservators
Board.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 29th June, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY LIVINGSTON, Esq.,

to be an Auditor to audit the accounts of the Clutha
River Conservators Board, under section 19 of "The
Clutha River Conservators Board Act, 1875."

G. S. WHITMORE.

Commissioner under Section 31 of "The Financial
Arrangements Act, 1876," appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 1st July, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned gentleman to be a
Commissioner under section 31 of "The Financial
Arrangements Act, 1876," to inquire into and determine the proportionate part of the moneys made
payable by the said Act to the districts included in
the county set opposite to his name:—

The Reverend WILLIAM BOOTH, County of Wairarapa West.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Trustee, Havelock Cemetery, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 2nd July, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM BROWNLEE, Esq.,

of Havelock, in the County of Marlborough, a