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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 88

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.

Issue of Money Orders on Germany.

Post Office and Telegraph Deparartment,
Wellington, 25th October, 1881.

I
T is hereby notified for general information that,
on and after the 1st November next, money
orders will be issued in New Zealand upon Germany
at the following rates of commission :—

For sums not exceeding £2 ... s. d.
" exceeding £2, but not exceeding £4 3 0
" £4, " £6 4 6
" £6, " £8 6 0
" £8, " £10 7 6

The orders will be drawn for English money, and
may be made payable at any town in Germany, which

includes Prussia, Saxony, Mecklenburg Schwerin,
Mecklenburg Strelitz, Hesse, Oldenburg, Brunswick,
Saxe Weimar, Saxe Meiningen, Saxe Altenburg, Saxe
Coburg Gotha, Anhalt, Schwarzburg Rudolstadt,
Schwarzburg Sonderhausen, Waldeck, Reuss, Schaum-
burg Lippe, Lippe, Lubeck, Bremen, Hamburg.
Payment will be made in Germany at the rate of
20 marks 40 pfennings to the £1 sterling.
The applicant for each order must furnish in
writing on the form of requisition for a money order
the full addresses to which the letters of both the
remitter and payee are to be directed.
Money orders are now issued in Germany for
payment in New Zealand through the medium of the
London office.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1881.

P
ATENT for an Invention for the Manufacture of
Compressed Fuel.

EDWIN TORRENS BRISSENDEN, of Epsom, near Auck-
land, in the Colony of New Zealand, has deposited
at this office a specification of the said invention,
and I have appointed Friday, the 13th day of January
next, at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon, at this office,
to hear the said application and all objections
thereto; and I require all persons having an interest
in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to
leave, on or before the 9th day of January next, at
this office, particulars in writing of their objections
to the said application, otherwise they will be pre-
cluded from urging the same.

W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1881.

P
ATENT for a Washing-machine, to be entitled
"The Excellent Washer."

JOHN GUY, of Patea, Saw-miller, has deposited
at this office a specification of the said invention, and
I have appointed Friday, the 27th day of January
next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to
hear the said application and all objections thereto;
and I require all persons having an interest in
opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave,
on or before 23rd day of January next, at this
office, particulars in writing of their objections to
the said application, otherwise they will be precluded
from urging the same.

W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Crown Lands Notices.

Changing Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in
Canterbury.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 10th October, 1881.

I
T is hereby notified that His Excellency the Ad
ministrator of the Government intends, under
the provisions of section 148 of "The Land Act,
1877," to change the specific purpose of the land
described in the second column of the Schedule hereto,
for which the land was heretofore set apart as a
reserve, as specified in the first column of the said
Schedule, to the specific purposes specified in the
third column of the said Schedule,