Nov. 23.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1755

each year, by machinery established in New Zealand,
of not less than 100 tons of cane sugar. The esta-
blishment by which such refining is effected must be
what is ordinarily known as a sugar-refinery. The firm
refining the first 100 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.

OSTRICHES.
A bonus of five pounds (£5) per head will be given
for healthy ostrich chicks landed in New Zealand for
the purpose of being reared and maintained in the
colony; the number of any importation to be not
less than ten nor more than fifty.

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.

Conditions.

1. 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, 1882.
2. The claim must be made before the 30th June,
4. 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.
5. Further information and particulars may be
   obtained by application to the Colonial Secretary's
   Office.

IRON.
A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be
given for the production, in New Zealand, of 300
tons of pig-iron, of marketable quality, from ore pro-
duced in New Zealand.

Conditions.

1. The bonus not to be given for any quantity less
   than 100 tons.
2. Notice of the intention to erect ironworks and
   claim the bonus must be given to the Colonial Secre-
   tary before the 31st December, 1882.
3. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st De-
   cember, 1883.
4. In the event of more than one claimant giving
   such notice, not more than seven-tenths of the bonus
   may be claimed by the first producer, and not more
   than three-tenths by the second producer; but if
   only one claimant becomes a producer on the above
   conditions, he may claim the whole of the bonus.
5. The iron in respect of which any bonus is
   claimed, and the ore from which it is manufactured,
   will be examined by an officer to be appointed by the
   Government, who may require the production of
   bonâ fide account sales of quantities not less than
   100 tons weight, showing that such iron has been
   sold at a fair market price as pig-iron.

THOMAS DICK.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1882.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
tenders is published for general information.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works,

MANUTAHI PLATELAYING CONTRACT, FOXTON-
NEW PLYMOUTH RAILWAY.

Accepted.
Anthony Nathan, Hawera ... 4,247 0 0

Declined.
Jay and Haynes, Palmerston ... 5,081 18 4
Mace and Bassett, Patea ... 5,441 15 0
D. Scally, Wanganui ... 6,198 3 6
E. Gallagher, Manutahi ... 7,493 15 0

Order in Council exempting Swedish Vessels from
Remeasurement.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 20th November, 1882.

THE following despatch, with its enclosure, from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, is published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Downing Street,
1st September, 1882.

SIR,-With reference to my circular despatch of the
8th June last, I have the honour to transmit to
you, for information and publication in the colony
under your Government, copies of an Order of the
Queen in Council of the 18th August, revoking
the Orders in Council of the 17th March, 1875,
and 3rd May, 1882, and exempting from remeasure-
ment in this country (1) sailing ships of the Kingdom
of Sweden the measurement whereof has, on or after
the 1st April, 1875, been ascertained and denoted in
the registers and other national papers of such
ships, and (2) steamships of the Kingdom of Sweden
the measurement whereof has been ascertained and
denoted as aforesaid on or after the 1st April, 1881.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering the
Government of New Zealand.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
the 18th day of August, 1882.

Present:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amend-
ment Act, 1862," it is enacted that, whenever it is
made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules con-
cerning the measurement of tonnage of merchant
ships for the time being in force under the principal
Act have been adopted by the Government of any
foreign country, and are in force in that country, it
shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council,
to direct that the ships of such foreign country shall
be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their
certificates of registry or other national papers; and
thereupon it shall no longer be necessary for such
ships to be remeasured in any port or place in Her
Majesty's dominions, but such ships shall be deemed
to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of
registry or other papers in the same manner, to the
same extent, and for the same purposes in, to, and
for which the tonnage denoted in the certificates of
registry of British ships is deemed to be the tonnage
of such ships:

And whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act,
1876," it is enacted that, when Her Majesty has
power under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," or
any Act passed or hereafter to be passed amending
the same, to make an Order in Council, it shall be
lawful for Her Majesty from time to time to make
such Order in Council, and by Order in Council to
revoke, alter, or add to any order so made: