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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 110

Certificated Accountants in Bankruptcy appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th December, 1881.
HIS Honor Mr. Justice Gillies has appointed
THOMAS ALEXANDER MENZIES, Esq.,
of Auckland, and his Honor Mr. Joshua Strange
Williams has appointed
WILLIAM LAWRENCE SIMPSON, Esq.,
of Dunedin, to be Certificated Accountants in Bank-
ruptcy.
THOMAS DICK.

Members of Land Board appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN DUNCAN, Esq., and
ROBERT STOUT, Esq.,
to be Members of the Land Board for the Land
District of Otago.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Land Board resigned.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
JOHN BATHGATE, Esq.,
as a Member of the Land Board of the Land District
of Otago.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Native Assessor resigned.

Native Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
MITA KARAKA NGATIPARE
as an Assessor of the Native Land Court.
WALTER W. JOHNSTON.

Promotion in the Survey Department.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
promote
Cadet HENRY ALEXANDER RUSSELL FARQUHAR
to be an Assistant-Surveyor in the Survey Depart-
ment of New Zealand; the appointment dating from
the 1st December, 1881.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Proposed International Exhibition of Wines, Spirits,
and Fermented Liquors, at Bordeaux.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1881.
IT is hereby notified for general information that
His Excellency the Governor has received from
the Secretary of State for the Colonies a despatch
intimating that it is proposed to hold an Exhibition
of Agriculture, Industry, and Arts, at Bordeaux, to
be opened on the 1st June next, which will be inter-
national as far as wines, spirits, and fermented
liquors are concerned.

Further information can be obtained by intending
exhibitors at this office.
THOMAS DICK.

Proposed Loan, Borough of South Dunedin.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1881.
THE following notice, received from his Worship
the Mayor of South Dunedin, is published in
accordance with section 145 of "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876."
THOMAS DICK.

BOROUGH OF SOUTH DUNEDIN.
19th December, 1881.
SIR,-In compliance with section 145 of "The Mu-
nicipal Corporations Act, 1876," I have the honor to
forward notice that a poll was taken on Saturday,
the 17th December instant, for and against the pro-
posal of the South Dunedin Borough Council to bor-
row the sum of £5,000 for the purpose of providing
a water supply, when the following number of votes
was recorded:-
For the proposal ... 261 votes.
Against the proposal ... 5 "
Informal ... 2 "
As the number of votes recorded in favour of the
proposal exceeds one-half of the number of burgesses
(viz., 494), I have declared the proposal carried.
I am, &c.,
G. M. BRIDE,
Mayor.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
Wellington.

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:----

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