JUNE 7.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
757

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 quan-
tities 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 man-
ganeisen, 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 Zea-
land 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 satis-
   faction of the Government that he has fulfilled all the condi-
   tions 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
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,
5. 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.
6. 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 wrought-iron.

THOMAS DICK.

Notice to Mariners. No. 17 of 1883.

HAURAKI GULF, NORTH ISLAND, N.Z.—EXHIBITION OF LIGHT
ON MOKOU HINOU ISLAND, AND ALTERATION TO TIRI TIRI
LIGHT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, New Zealand, 26th May, 1883.

WITH reference to the preliminary notices issued by this
Department, dated the 6th day of December, 1892, and
the 29th March, 1883, it is hereby notified that, on and after
Monday, the 18th day of June, 1883, a Light will be ex-
hibited from the Lighthouse which has been erected on Moko
Hinou Island, the position and characteristics of which are as
follow:-
The Lighthouse is situated on Burgess Island, one of the
Mokou Hinou Group, at the entrance to Hauraki Gulf, North
Island, New Zealand; lat. 35° 55′ 15″ S., long. 175° 8′ 47″ E.
The Tower is 46 feet in height from base to top of Cowl, and is
painted White. The Light will be a First Order flashing white
light, visible all round seaward, and will show a flash every ten
seconds.

The Light is elevated 385 feet above the sea, and, allowing 15
feet for the height of the eye, will be seen at a distance of about
26 nautic miles in clear weather, and at lesser distances
according to the state of the atmosphere.

On the same night that the Moko Hinou Light is
exhibited a section of the Tiri Tiri Light will be altered
to show red over an arc of about 23° from over Flat Rock on
to Kawau Island, the rest of the light remaining white as at
present. The Red Light will show between the bearings from
seaward of S. E. and S.S.E. $\frac{1}{4}$ E.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 18 of 1883.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th June, 1883.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Port-
master, Brisbane, are published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

REEF OFF CAPE KEER WEER, GULF OF CARPENTARIA.

NOTICE is hereby given that a reef awash at low water has
been reported by Mr. James Runcie, master of the schooner
"Lucy and Adelaide," as lying about four miles from the land
and twenty-four miles south of Cape Keer Weer.

G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 11th May, 1883.

NEW CUTTING AND LEADING LIGHTS, BRISBANE RIVER BAR,
AND DISCONTINUANCE OF WEST BEACON LIGHT AND
LIGHTS IN FRANCIS CHANNEL.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of a notice issued
from this office on the 23rd ultimo, the lightship at the
Brisbane Bar has been this day moved to a position in
3 fathoms of water on the outer edge of the bar, at a distance
of $\frac{1}{2}$ cable to the eastward of the line of the new cutting. The
tidal signals will be made from her as usual.

On and after this date the West Beacon Light and all the
lights in Francis Channel will be discontinued, the direction
of the line of the new cutting being given by the two light-
houses on the Fisherman Islands in line, and at night by two
leading lights, the more northern of the two being red, and
standing at an elevation of 27 feet above high water, the back
light white at an elevation of 47 feet. The lighthouses in line
lead through the cutting, which is 200 feet wide, at a distance
of 50 feet from its eastern edge.

The white light is dioptric of the fifth order, and shows
between the bearings of S.E. by S. and S.S.W. $\frac{1}{4}$ W., and
between W. $\frac{3}{4}$ N. and N.W. $\frac{1}{4}$ N. where not obscurel by trees.
While this light is in sight to the southward of S.S W. $\frac{1}{4}$
W., vessels will be clear of the shoal water off Mud Island.
The line also of eclipsed light, bearing N.W. $\frac{1}{2}$ N., leads a
cable to the north-east of the black and white beacon at the
entrance to the boat channel.

The red light is a sixth order holophote, and shows through
a sector of 10° in the line of the cutting. The towers are white
and circular, and are placed at a distance of 1,433 yards apart,
bearing N. by W. $\frac{3}{4}$ W., and S. by E. $\frac{1}{4}$ E. nearly.

There is a depth of 15 feet at low water in the new cutting,
but the cuttings across the inner bar and the Pelican Bank,
which are not yet deepened, have a depth still of only 10 feet
6 inches at low water.

Directions: Vessels entering from Cowan Cowan Point will
steer so as to pass to the northward and westward of the light-
ship outside the bar, entering the cutting with the light-
houses just open to the westward. Similarly at night, vessels
on dipping Cowan Cowan Point Light will pick up the light
from the lightship outside the bar, and steer so as to pass well
to the northward of her, entering the cutting with the lights
just open to the westward, and keeping them in that position
until nearing the line of beacons or leading lights on the East
Banks, which will lead through the cutting across the inner
bar as formerly.

Vessels leaving the river will pass through the cutting with
the lighthouses in line.

Vessels by night, coming from the southern part of the bay,
after passing between King and Green Islands, will keep the
leading lights at Lytton in line until the white light on the
Fisherman Island is obscured. Vessels will then be about $\frac{1}{2}$
cable from the black and white outer beacon at the entrance to
the boat channel, and by again opening the light may haul up
for the south-west end of Fisherman Island as usual.

G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 16th May, 1883.