AUGUST 31.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1197

established in New Zealand, of the first 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 50 tons of oil-
cake, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown
in the colony.

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.

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, produced 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 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.

British Measurement for Tonnage adopted by Vessels
of Sweden, Hayti, and Russia.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 28th August, 1882.

THE following despatches, with their enclosures,
from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for the Colonies, are published for general
information.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Customs.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 8th June, 1882.

SIR, -I have the honor to transmit to you, for in-
formation and publication in the colony under your
Government, copies of two orders of the Queen in
Council of the 3rd of May, exempting from re-
measurement in this country ships of the Kingdom
of Sweden and of Hayti, the measurement whereof
has, after the 1st of April, 1882, and the 26th of
January, 1882, been ascertained and denoted in the
registers and other national papers of such ships.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering the
Government of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the 3rd day of May, 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 cer-
tificates of registry or other papers, in the same
manner, to the same extent, and for the same pur-
poses in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in
the certificates of registry of British ships is to be
deemed the tonnage of such ships:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her
Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement
of tonnage of merchant ships now in force under
"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," have been
adopted in Hayti by the Haitian Government:

Her Majesty is hereby pleased, by and with the
advice of Her Privy Council, to direct that the ships
of Hayti, the certificates of Haitain nationality and