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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

In the Otahuhu Rifle Volunteers.
William Dalton Bush to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 26th January, 1878.
James Toms to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of com-
missions, 26th July, 1877.

In the Nelson Artillery Volunteer Cadets.
Charles Sharp to be Captain. Date of commission,
8th February, 1878.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1878.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers, viz. :-
Major J. E. Hannah, as Officer Commanding Volun-
teers in the Invercargill District.
Major D. H. Lusk, as Captain, Forest Rifle Volun-
teers.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1878.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the
Queen's Bay of Plenty Native Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 31st July, 1878.
G. S. WHITMORE.

£10,000 Bonus.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1878.
NOTICE is hereby given that, in terms of a reso-
lution of the House of Representatives, the
Government of New Zealand will pay, by way of
bonus, the sum of five thousand pounds (£5,000) to
any individual or company who shall first produce
not less than five hundred (500) tons of marketable
sugar from beet grown and manufactured in the
North Island. Also that a like sum of five thousand
pounds (£5,000) will be paid to any individual or
company who shall first produce not less than five
hundred (500) tons of marketable sugar from beet
grown and manufactured in the Middle Island.
Such bonus to be paid upon its being duly certified
by the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the district
within which the sugar shall have been produced,
and by the Chairman of the nearest Chamber of
Commerce, that the minimum quantity hereinbefore
mentioned has been so produced, and is of market-
able quality: Provided further that such certificates
shall have been presented at the Colonial Treasury
within three years of the date above written.
J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

Reported Outbreak of Scab in Tasmania.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 13th August, 1878.
THE following letter, with its enclosure, addressed
to the Colonial Secretary by the Honorable the
Colonial Secretary of Tasmania, relative to an un-
founded report of an outbreak of scab in sheep
in that colony, is published for general information.
ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hobart Town, 24th July, 1878.
SIR,-Publicity having been given in Melbourne
to an unfounded report of an outbreak of scab in
this colony, I am induced to forward for your in-
formation copies of a correspondence upon the
subject, which clearly proves that in Tasmania the
flocks of stud sheep are so situated that it is im-
possible for scab to make its appearance through
contact with diseased sheep, and, in fact, that, with
one solitary exception, every district is now perfectly
clean.

I shall feel obliged by your contradicting any
reports that may be circulated in your colony arising
out of this late rumour, as their circulation would
tend to jeopardize the trade in stud sheep, which
is of mutual advantage to the flockowners of Tas-
mania and your colony.

I have, &c.,
WM. MOORE.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
New Zealand.

(Telegram.)
Melbourne, 18th July, 1878.
IT is stated that an outbreak of scab has taken
place in Tasmania. Please favour me with full in-
formation on the subject immediately.
CHIEF SECRETARY,
Chief Secretary, Tasmania.
Victoria.

(Telegram.)
18th July, 1878.
CHIEF Inspector of Sheep states that the report is
not true.
COLONIAL SECRETARY,
Tasmania.
Chief Secretary, Victoria.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hobart Town, 20th July, 1878.
SIR,-The day before yesterday I had the honor to
forward you the following telegram, in reply to one
received that day from you with reference to a
reported outbreak of scab in Tasmania :-
"Chief Inspector of Sheep states that the report
is not true."

I now take the earliest opportunity of sending you
copy of a letter from the Chief Inspector of Sheep
upon the subject, which fully demonstrates the un-
founded character of the report, and affords strong
grounds for the presumption that it was raised with
the intention of directly injuring the breeders of
stud sheep in this colony.

I have, &c.,
WM. MOORE.

The Hon. the Chief Secretary, Victoria.

Inspector of Sheep Office,
18th July, 1878.
SIR,-I have now the honor to refer more fully to
the subject of the telegram you received to-day from
the Chief Secretary of Victoria with reference to a
reported outbreak of scab in Tasmania.

I have also received a telegram from Messrs.
Powers, Rutherford, and Co., through Mr. James
Gibson, which states that it was reported in the
Argus newspaper that an outbreak of scab had taken
place in the neighbourhood of Messrs. Kermode and
James Gibson.

The report is utterly untrue, as is fully explained
in my report, which you only received yesterday, and
which, of course, can only be printed in the ordinary
way after presentation to Parliament.

No outbreak of scab has taken place in any clean
district in Tasmania: in fact, what has recently
occurred in the Lake country, and out of which the