DEC. 22.]

not duly elected or returned, and that
the election was void [or that the
said was duly elected and ought
to have been returned, or as the case
may be].

2. An election petition shall contain the following
   statements:—
   (1.) It shall state the right of the petitioner to
   petition within section 3 of the Act;
   (2.) It shall state the holding and result of the
   election, and shall briefly state the facts and
   grounds relied on to sustain the prayer.

3. Presentation of a petition shall be made by
   delivering it to the Returning Officer of the district
   in which the election was held.

4. If security is given upon the presentation of
   the petition by deposit of money, the same shall be
   made by payment into the nearest branch of the Bank
   of New Zealand, to an account to be opened there by
   the description of ""The Election Petitions Act,
   1880,' Security Fund."

5. A bank receipt or certificate for the amount
   so paid in shall forthwith be left with the Returning
   Officer, to be transmitted by him to the Registrar of
   the Supreme Court, Wellington.

6. If security is given by bond it shall be in a form
   to be approved by the Returning Officer. There
   may be one bond given by all the sureties, or separate
   bonds given by one or more, as may be convenient.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, C.J.
ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON, J.
JOSHUA S. WILLIAMS, J.

Application for Registration of Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1881.
NOTICE is hereby given that JAMES MCNEIGHT
WATT, of Christchurch, in the Colony of New
Zealand, has applied, on behalf of the NEW ZEALAND
PROVISION AND PRODUCE COMPANY, of Manchester
Street, Christchurch, in the said colony to register,
under "The Trade Marks Act, 1866," the trade mark
of which the following is a description :—
Description of Trade Mark.
The letters "P. & P. Co.," followed by the repre-
sentation of an anchor.
Nature of the Article to which it is intended such
Trade Mark shall apply.
Soap.

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of
Trade Marks.

Warden for Castlepoint Highway District, County
of Wairarapa East, elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1881.
NOTICE has been received at this office under
the hand of the Returning Officer, Mr. A.
McHutchon, that, on the 9th instant,
WILLIAM A. BURLING
was duly elected a Warden for No. 7 Ward of the
Castlepoint Highway District.
G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1881.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following bonuses
will be paid on articles produced in the Colony
of New Zealand, as under :--

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1077

SUGAR.
A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be
given for the production of the first 125 tons of sugar,
manufactured in New Zealand, from beet or any
other root or plant grown in the colony.

LINSEED OIL.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given for the production, by machinery permanently
established in New Zealand, of the first ten thousand
(10,000) gallons of oil, of good marketable quality,
from linseed grown in the colony.

OIL CAKE.
A bonus of one hundred pounds (£100) will be
given for the production of the first fifty tons of oil
cake, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown
in the colony.

STARCH.
A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be
given on the first fifty tons of starch, manufactured
in the colony, which shall be shipped to an English
market, and for which a satisfactory certificate shall
be given by dealers or brokers in England that the
starch is of good marketable quality.

SILK.
A bonus of fifty per cent. on the value realized
for the first thousand pounds' (£1,000) worth of
cocoons of the silkworm, or silkworms' eggs, pro-
duced in the colony, to be paid on quantities of not
less value than fifty pounds (£50) nor more than
one hundred pounds (£100) produced by any one
person.

SULPHURIC ACID.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) per
annum will be given for three years in succession
for the production each year, by machinery esta-
blished in New Zealand, of not less than fifty tons
of sulphuric acid, of good marketable quality. The
producer to the satisfaction of the Colonial Secretary
of the first fifty tons shall be also entitled to the
payments of the two following years if he fulfils the
conditions.

SUGAR-REFINING.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given for three years in succession for the refining
each year, by machinery established in New Zealand,
of not less than one hundred tons of cane sugar.
The establishment by which such refining is effected
must be what is ordinarily known as a sugar-refinery.
The firm refining the first one hundred tons of sugar,
and receiving the bonus, shall be also entitled to the
bonus of the two following years upon fulfilling the
conditions above named.

GUNPOWDER.
The Government are prepared to receive pro-
posals from any person willing to establish a factory
for the manufacture of blasting and sporting powder.
The proposer to state what amount of bonus he would
require to induce him to undertake the manufacture.
The place where the factory is to be erected to be
subject to the approval of the Government, the
plans and specifications of the building to be also
approved by Government.
All the internal fittings and the arrangements for
carrying on the manufacture of the gunpowder to
be subject to the inspection of an officer appointed
by the Government.

BUTTER OR CHEESE.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given for the first 25 tons of butter or the first 50
tons of cheese (produced in a factory worked on the
American principle, and to which factory any farmer,
subject to certain conditions, may send his milk),