JUNE 14.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 785

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
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,
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 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 wrought-iron.

THOMAS DICK.

Despatch.-Cadetships at Royal Military College.

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th June, 1883.
THE following despatch and enclosure from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies are published
for general information. The despatch containing the regula-
tions relating to the subject was published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 29th September, 1881.

THOMAS DICK.

Downing Street, 9th April, 1883.
SIR,-With reference to that portion of my predecessor's
despatch of the 24th of August, 1880, which relates to a pro-
posal that preliminary examinations for the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, should be conducted by means of papers
sent out to the colonies by the Civil Service Commissioners, I
have the honour to transmit to you, to be laid before your

Government, an extract of a letter from the War Office stating
that the Civil Commissioners will be prepared, upon being in-
formed that a person residing in any of the more important
distant colonies is desirous of passing the preliminary examina-
tion for admission, to forward to the Governor of the colony in
question a sealed packet of examination papers, with explana-
tions as to the mode of conducting the examination; or, should
the demand for examination be recurrent, they would be willing
to supply papers beforehand, to be used by the Governor as
occasion might require.

It will be noticed that this arrangement supersedes that
which was previously announced in Lord Kimberley's despatch
of the 30th of June, 1881, under which preliminary examina-
tions for Sandhurst would have been conducted in accordance
with the prescribed regulations by the authorities of any
universities or colleges possessing royal charters, but that it
does not affect the annual grant of a cadetship to such universi-
ties.

Your Government will also observe that, in consequence of the
increased facilities afforded by the present arrangement, it will
now be unnecessary to take any steps in the direction indicated
in the earlier of the two despatches referred to, with the view
of choosing a common centre of examination in Australia.

I have, &c.,
DERBY.

The Officer Administering the
Government of New Zealand.

EXTRACT from a LETTER from the WAR OFFICE to the
COLONIAL OFFICE, dated 9th March, 1883.

I AM to observe that a communication has been received from
the Civil Service Commissioners, from which it appears that,
upon its being notified to them that a person residing in any of
the more important distant colonies is desirous of passing in the
colony preliminary examinations for admission to Sandhurst,
they will be prepared to forward to the Governor of the colony
in question a sealed packet of examination papers, accompanied
by instructions as to the mode of conducting the examination;
or, should the demand for examination in the colony be likely to
be recurrent, they would be willing, for the purpose of avoiding
delay, to supply the Governor with papers beforehand, to be
used by him when the occasion should arise.

This course will accordingly be adopted in preference to the
arrangement originally proposed of holding preliminary exami-
nations in the colonies under the authority of chartered colonial
universities.

Notice to Mariners. -No. 19 of 1883.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th June, 1883.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine
Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for
general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

SOUTH-EAST COAST.-CAPE NORTHUMBERLAND LIGHTHOUSE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the lighthouse on Cape North-
umberland has now painted thereon three bands-white, red,
and white-from base to lantern-platform, instead of being all
white as heretofore.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 11th May, 1883.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1883.
THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is
published for general information.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

TAHORAITE CONTRACT.-WELLINGTON-NAPIER
RAILWAY.

Accepted.
Jay and Haynes, Palmerston North ... 13,615 12 9

Declined.
Mealy and Grant, Christchurch ... 14,314 18 8
Towers and Baines, Napier ... 14,530 11 10
Alexander Macfarlane, Wanganui ... 14,712 5 2
O'Malley and Pepperell, Masterton ... 15,293 12 4
J. Saunders, Wellington ... 17,535 11 10