Nov. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1485

SCHEDULE.
Name of Corps. Place of Assembly.

CANTERBURY—
C Battery New Zealand Regiment of Artillery
Volunteers.
No. 1 Company Temuka Rifle Volunteers.
Ashburton Rifle Volunteers.

TARANAKI—
Taranaki Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
No. 1 Company Taranaki Rifle Volunteers.
Waitara Rifle Volunteers.
No. 1 Company Inglewood Rangers Rifle
Volunteers.
Bell Block Rifle Volunteers.
Okato Rifle Volunteers.
Manutahi Rifle Volunteers.
Oakura Rifle Volunteers.
Kent Road-Mangorei Rifle Volunteers.
Waimate Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Waimate Rifle Volunteers.
Opunake Rifle Volunteers.
Stratford Rangers Rifle Volunteers.
Tikorangi Rifle Volunteers.
No. 2 Company Inglewood Rangers Rifle
Volunteers.
New Plymouth Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Egmont Rifle Volunteers.
Ngaire Rifle Volunteers.
Omata Rifle Volunteers.

PATEA—
Hawera Rifle Volunteers.

MARLBOROUGH—
Picton Company Marlborough Rangers Volun-
teers
Spring Creek Company Marlborough Rangers
Volunteers.
Blenheim Rifle Volunteers.

Head-quarters of the respective corps.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this third day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one.
JOHN HALL.

Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN JAMES HENRY HALL, Esq.,
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and
of Births and Deaths for the District of Tauranga.
THOMAS DICK.

Returning Officers appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th November, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN NUGENT WOOD, Esq., R.M.,
to be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Tuapeka, vice E. H. Carew, Esq., transferred; and
also to appoint
WALTER MARTIN, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Ashburton, vice J. N. Wood, Esq., transferred.
THOMAS DICK.

Member of New Plymouth Harbour Board appointed.
Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th November, 1881.
IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of
section 23 of "The Harbours Act, 1878," been pleased
to appoint
WILLIAM BAYLEY

to be a Member of the New Plymouth Harbour
Board.
JOHN HALL.

Appointment of Chief Judge, Native Land Court.
Native Office,
Wellington, 10th November, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
FRANCIS DART FENTON, Esq.,
of Auckland, Barrister-at-Law, to be Chief Judge of
the Native Land Court, under "The Native Land
Court Act, 1880."
WM. ROLLESTON.

Appointment of Volunteer Officer.
Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointment:---
Ngaire Rifle Volunteers.
Joseph Henry Cowen to be Captain. Date of com-
mission, 29th October, 1881.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.
Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of
The Ngaire Rifle Volunteers. Date of acceptance,
29th October, 1881.
WM. ROLLESTON.

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
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