MAR. 16.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 455

Digest of Imperial Act entitled "Presumption of
Life Limitation Act, 1881."

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1882.

THE following brief digest of an Imperial Act,
cited as "The Presumption of Life Limitation
Act, 1881," is published for general information :-

The preamble sets forth that great hardships having
arisen from the want of any limitation to the pre-
sumption of life as regards persons who have been
absent from Scotland, or have disappeared for long
periods of years, it is desirable that a limitation
should be provided.

Section 1. Provides that, in the case of a person
who has been absent from Scotland, or who has dis-
appeared, and who has not been heard of for seven
years, the Court may, on petition from the person
entitled to succeed to the estate of the absentee, and
after due inquiry, grant the petitioner authority to
enjoy the income of such estate.

Section 2. Provides that, after a further period of
seven years, during which the absent person has not
been heard of, the petitioner may obtain from the
Court the fee of the movable estate, as if the absentee
were dead.

Section 3. Provides that, thirteen years after the
income of the estate has been granted, the Court
may, if nothing has been heard of the missing per-
son, grant the petitioner the fee of the heritable
estate, as if the absentee were dead.

Section 4. Provides for the disposal of movable
estate after fourteen years' absence where there has
been no previous deliverance relative to income under
section 1.

Section 5. Makes provision for the disposal of
heritable estate after twenty years' absence where
there has been no previous deliverance relative to
income under section 1.

Section 6. Gives power to dispense with the consent
of the absent person to the sale of property held
pro indiviso.

Section 7. Provides that the claim of the absent
person, or of person with better title than petitioner,
is barred after thirteen years from date of deliver-
ance of income.

Section 8. Enacts that the absent person, where
there is nothing to prove the contrary, shall be pre-
sumed to have died seven years after his disappear-
ance and last being heard of.

Section 11. Exempts policies of insurance from the
provisions of the Act.

THOMAS DICK.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st February, 1882.

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.

STARCH.

A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be
given on the first 50 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.

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 Zea-
land, of not less than 100 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 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.

Conditions.

Notice of intention to claim any of the above
bonuses must be given in writing to the Colonial
Secretary not later than the 30th June, 1882.

The claim must be made before the 31st Decem-
ber, 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.

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
   bona 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.

Notice to Mariners. -No. 7 of 1882.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 9th March, 1882.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
The Superintendent, Marine Survey of India,
Calcutta, is published for general information.

JOHN HALL,

(in absence of the Minister having charge
of the Marine Department.)

MALACCA STRAIT. -PENANG, OR PRINCE OF WALES'
ISLAND.

Fixed Red Light exhibited from Fort Point,
Georgetown.

THE Harbourmaster, Penang, has notified that, on
and after the 1st January, 1882, a light would be