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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

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 established 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.

EARTHENWARE.

A bonus of two hundred and fifty pounds (£250) will be given on the first £1,000 worth of household earthenware manufactured in the colony, on proof that it has been sold at such prices as to show that it is of good marketable quality.

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 proposals 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.

Designation of Post Office changed.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 8th June, 1881.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the designation of the Post Office in the Invercargill Postal District known as Thornbury Junction will, from and after the 1st proximo, be changed to

THORNBURY.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Money Order and Savings Bank Offices opened.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 8th June, 1881.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Money Order and Savings Bank Offices will be opened at

EDENDALE (Chief Office, Invercargill), and
THORNBURY (Chief Office, Invercargill),

from and after the 1st July next.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Crown Lands Notices.

Land in Otago classified as Pastoral Land.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1881.

IT is hereby notified that the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of section 75 of “The Land Act, 1877,” have reported to His Excellency the Governor that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be classified as pastoral land, and the Governor has determined that the same shall be disposed of as pastoral land upon deferred-payments, as provided by sections 76 to 85, inclusive, of “The Land Act, 1877.”

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE.

WAIPORI DISTRICT.

| Sec- | Area. | Sec- | Area. |
| tion. | | tion. | |
| | BLOCK II. | | BLOCK VI. |
| | A. R. P. A. R. P. | | A. R. P. A. R. P. |
| 1 | 671 3 4 | 8 | 39 2 34 |
| 2 | 605 2 12 | 7 | 226 0 9 |
| 3 | 340 0 32 | 9 | 445 1 8 |
| 6 | 596 2 37 | 10 | 465 0 7 |
| 7 | 642 1 4 | 11 | 243 3 31 |
| 8 | 320 0 34 | 12 | 650 3 9 |
| | 3,176 3 3 | | 2,070 3 18 |
| | BLOCK III. | | BLOCK XI. |
| 1 | 467 1 21 | 5 | 61 3 7 |
| 2 | 188 1 28 | 6 | 413 1 29 |
| 3 | 469 1 35 | 7 | 373 0 34 |
| 8 | 436 1 0 | | 848 1 30 |
| 9 | 465 3 38 | | BLOCK XII. |
| | 2,027 2 2 | 2 | 332 3 13 |
| | BLOCK V. | 3 | 375 1 27 |
| 6 | 420 1 39 | | 708 1 0 |
| 7 | 546 2 28 | | |
| | 967 0 27 | | |