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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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3. The other conditions as to quantity, quality, and | Acclimatisation Society under "The Animals Pro-
   value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer tection Act, 1880."
   appointed for the purpose by the Government.
4. 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.

Additional Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1882.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following bonuses
will be paid on articles in the Colony of New
Zealand, as under:-

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 either 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,

THOMAS DICK.

Auckland Acclimatisation Society registered.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1882.

IT is hereby notified that a copy of the rules of the
AUCKLAND ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY,
duly signed, have been deposited in this office, and
the said Society is therefore deemed to be a registered
G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Auckland Rifle Battalion disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
cancel the formation of
The Auckland Rifle Battalion,
under command of Major James Derrom, as published
in Gazette No. 128, of the 31st December, 1879, page
1777.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and
Charges in Force on the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Orders in Council dated
the 6th January, 1881, and the 22nd September,
1881, the following scale of charges for the purpose
specified below is hereby fixed, in lieu of that at
present in force, and such scale shall come into force
from and after the 17th April, 1882.

PART IV. - LOCAL RATES.

NELSON SECTION.
Class K.-Timber.

Timber consigned from Wakefield, Wai-iti, Foxhill,
and Belgrove to Nelson or the Port will be charged
3d. per 100 superficial feet less than the classified
rates.

Dated this 12th day of April, 1882.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1882.

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

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

EDENDALE-TOITOIS RAILWAY (No. 1 CONTRACT). -
PERMANENT-WAY, STATIONS, ETC.

H. Whitaker, Dunedin
J. Isbester, Invercargill
H. Shepherd, Christchurch
W. Hislop, Dunedin
J. B. Blair, Dunedin
W. McCormick and Co., Tapanui

Accepted.
Declined.

£ s. d.
2,189 2 1

2,225 9 8
2,225 13 0
2,372 12 4
2,446 11 6
3,538 17 1

Officiating Ministers for 1882.-Notice No. 8.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1882.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1880," the following name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information:-

Church of Christ.
The Reverend Aaron Burr Maston.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.