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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

Road declared a County Road, County of Waitaki.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1882.

THE following order, made by the Council of the
County of Waitaki, under "The Public Works
Act, 1882," is published for general information.
G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

ROAD DECLARED A COUNTY ROAD.

I HEREBY proclaim the road leading from Winder-
mere to junction of roads at Sections 9, 8, and 14,
15, Block X., Oamaru District, a County Road.
D. SUTHERLAND,
Chairman, Waitaki County Council.

Resignation of Deputy-Sheriff and Deputy-Registrar,
Blenheim.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to accept the resigna-
tion by
JOHN SMITH HICKSON, Esq,
of the offices of Deputy-Sheriff, and Deputy-Registrar
of the Supreme Court at Blenheim.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1882.

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

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 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
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
   bond 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.

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

IN accordance with section 144 of "The Public
Works Act, 1882," I, Walter Woods Johnston,
Minister for Public Works, do hereby fix the follow-
ing scale of charges for the purposes specified below,
in lieu of that at present in force, and such scale
shall come into force from and after the 13th
November, 1882.