DEC. 29.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1689

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),
which shall be exported from New Zealand, and sold
at such prices in a foreign market as shall show that
the articles are of fair quality.

MEAT.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given on the first 100 tons of fresh meat exported
from New Zealand in vessels fitted with refrigerating
machinery. Such meat must have been collected in
a refrigerating chamber in this colony, and must
have been landed in Europe in sound marketable
condition.

CONDITIONS.
NOTICE of intention to claim any of the above
bonuses must be given in writing to the Colonial
Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1881.
The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1882.
The other conditions as to quantity, quality, and
value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer
appointed for the purpose by the Government.
Further information and particulars may be
obtained by application at the Colonial Secretary's
Office.

THOMAS DICK.

Notice to Mariners. - No. 40 of 1881.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th December, 1881.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Secretary for Harbours and Navigation,
Melbourne, and the Portmaster, Brisbane, are pub-
lished for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

ALTERATION TO LOWER LIGHT, QUEENSCLIFF, PORT
PHILLIP HEADS.
REFERRING to Notice to Mariners dated the 14th
September, 1881, pilots, masters of vessels, and
others are hereby informed that, on and after the
16th December, 1881, in addition to the present
cuttings, a red light will be exhibited from the
Lower Lighthouse, Queenscliff, visible to the ob-
server on a bearing of about W.S.W. $\frac{1}{4}$ S. to
W.S.W. $\frac{1}{2}$ S., or from No. 1 Black Buoy to No. 2
Perch Buoy, at the entrance to the West Channel.
This light is intended to guide mariners in the
fairway from Swan Spit to between Nos. 1 and 2
Buoys, and, so far, it will meet the requirements
fulfilled by the Swan Spit Lighthouse, recently
destroyed; but it will not be of service in enabling
them to judge their distance from Shortland's Bluff
Reef.

Vessels when bound outwards should haul to the
eastward when the Queenscliff Jetty Light bears
about W. by N., sufficient to clear Shortland's Bluff.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Secretary for Harbours and Navigation.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 30th November 1881.

SOUTH ENTRANCE TO MORETON BAY.
By following the directions published in April last
for using the south entrance to Moreton Bay, with
the leading beacons open twice their width to the
northward, vessels cannot now depend on carrying
more than 13 feet at low-water springs.

With the beacons open to the southward one
width, they can carry 10 feet, and, from 4 to 8
widths, 11 feet.

When the state of the bar however will allow a
vessel to haul up with the sea abeam, a depth of
from 15 to 16 feet at low-water springs can be
carried as follows:-

Cross the bar with the beacons open to the north-
ward about three times their own width, and steer for
the north break until a small sand cliff on the Amity
Point shore comes in line with the dip near the
western end of the high land at the back of the
point. Steer with these in line until the north
break is passed, when keep away for the main
channel between the north and south breaks.

G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 28th November, 1881.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and
Charges in force on the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Orders in Council dated
the 6th January, 1881, and the 22nd September,
1881, the following scale of charges for the purposes
specified below is hereby fixed in lieu of or in addi-
tion to that at present in force, and such scale shall
come into force on the 2nd January, 1882:-

PART III.--GOODS.
CLASS E.
Substitution of Rate for Wheat, Barley, and Oats,
in lieu of present classified rates for same.

Wheat, Barley, and Oats will be charged classified
rates Class E up to 13 miles, and 2d. per mile for
each additional mile up to 39 miles, and 1d. per mile
for each additional mile, instead of the present