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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

Gaolers appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 16th November, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to make the following
appointments:-

Mr. JAMES CALDWELL to be Keeper of the Com-
mon Gaol at Auckland, vice Mr. O'Brien, trans-
ferred;

Mr. BARTHOLOMEW LLOYD O'BRIEN to be Keeper
of the Common Gaol at Lyttelton, vice Mr.
Phillips, transferred;

Mr. SAMUEL CHARLES PHILLIPS to be Keeper of
the Common Gaol at Dunedin, vice Mr. Cald-
well, transferred;

(The foregoing appointments to take effect from 1st proximo.)

Sergeant-Major WILLIAM A. KIELY to be Police
Gaoler at Grahamstown, vice Sergeant O'Grady,
transferred;

Sergeant THOMAS O'GRADY to be Police Gaoler at
Westport, vice Sergeant-Major Kiely, trans-
ferred;

Constable EDWIN C. HUGHES to be Police Gaoler
at Hokianga, vice Constable Coughlan, trans-
ferred;

Constable JAMES W. MOAR to be Police Gaoler at
Mongonui, vice Constable Hutchison, trans-
ferred; and

Constable WILLIAM W. SMART to be Police Gaoler
at Kaikoura, vice Constable Miles, resigned.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Prison Officer reduced.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 16th November, 1882.

THOMAS MACNAMARA is reduced from Prin-
cipal Warder of Dunedin Gaol to Warder.
Reduction to take effect from the 7th November
instant.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Arrangements for First Elections, &c., Town District
of Petone, County of Hutt.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH HALL

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elec-
tion of seven Commissioners of the Petone Town
District, as constituted under "The Town Districts
Act, 1881;" also to appoint Saturday, the 9th
December, 1882, to be the time, and the Schoolroom,
Petone, to be the place, for holding such first
elections; also to appoint Wednesday, the 13th
December, 1882, at 7.80 p.m., at the said Schoolroom,
Petone, to be the time and place for holding the
first meeting of the Commissioners.

THOMAS DICK.

Kyeburn Cemetery Trustees resigned.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has accepted the resignations of

JAMES MEIKLE
and
ARTHUR SHARKEY

of their appointments as Trustees of the Kyeburn
Cemetery.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

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
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.