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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
| No. 41

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1883.

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

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.

MANGANEISEN AND MANGANESE-BRONZE.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be given for the first two thousand five hundred pounds’ (£2,500) worth of manganese, and a similar bonus for a like amount of manganese-bronze, produced in the colony from New Zealand ores, and sold at a fair market price in a foreign market.

MARBLE.

A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be given for the first fifteen hundred pounds’ (£1,500) worth of New Zealand marble exported from the colony, and sold in a foreign market at a price of not less than 9s. per cubic foot.

ANTIMONY.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be given for the first 250 tons of antimony regulus produced in the colony from New Zealand ores, and sold at a fair market price in a foreign market.

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, 1883.

2. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1884.

3. The first claimant of any bonus who proves to the satisfaction of the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions to be the recipient of the bonus.

4. The other conditions as to quantity, priority, 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.

WROUGHT-IRON.

A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be given for the production, in New Zealand, by a direct process, of 200 tons of “iron blooms,” of marketable quality, from ore produced 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 Secretary before the 31st December, 1883.

3. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st December, 1884.

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 wrought-iron.

THOMAS DICK.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1883.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be opened at

SOUTH DUNEDIN (Chief Office, Dunedin),

on the 21st instant.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1883.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1883.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Richard Harker.
The Reverend George Stephenson.

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

Crown Lands Notices.

Tenders for Leases of Rural Lands, and Sale for Cash.

EDUCATION RESERVES IN WENDON, WENDON-SIDE, AND WAIKAIA DISTRICTS.

5,000 ACRES UNDER DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

APPPLICATIONS will be received at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, or at any Land Office in the Otago Land District, on Friday, the 1st June, 1883, for the Deferred-payment Allotments hereunder :—

NOTE.—If more than one application is received for any of the above deferred-payment sections, tenders for such section or sections must be lodged on Tuesday, the 12th, to be opened at the Land Board on Wednesday, the 13th June.

4,500 ACRES SET APART FOR LEASING, WITH PERPETUAL RIGHT OF RENEWAL.

Leases for Thirty Years.

Written tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the sections in the districts as given in the Schedule, in accordance with “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

TENDERS.

The price tendered must be given in writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with six months’ rent at the rate tendered, and 30s. fee for lease and registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin, not later than 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 19th June, 1883.

The tenders will be opened at a meeting of the Land Board on Wednesday, the 20th June, 1883, when the highest tenderer (if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per acre fixed by the Board) will be declared the lessee.

The tenderers must appear at the Land Board, either in person or by an agent authorized in writing, on the day on which the tenders are opened.

Forms of tender and declaration, with covers (or envelopes), can be had upon application at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, or at any of the respective District Land Offices, viz., Invercargill, Lawrence, Clyde, Queenstown, Switzers (Waikaia), and Naseby. The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must be written on the covers. The letter being on “Public Service only,” and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped, being free of postage; neither does the declaration require to be stamped.

Any person of the age of eighteen years and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of 30s., to pay for the lease and