AUGUST 2.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 con-
   ditions 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 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 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 bonâ fide account-sales of quan-
   tities not less than 100 tons weight, showing that such iron
   has been sold at a fair market price as wrought-iron.

THOMAS DICK.

Order in Council exempting Danish Steam Vessels from
re-measurement.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 25th July, 1883.

THE following despatch, with its enclosure, from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
is published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 22nd May, 1883.
SIR, — With reference to Sir Michael Hicks Beach's circular
despatch of the 27th of January, 1879, I have the honour to
transmit to you, for information and publication in the
colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of the
Queen in Council, dated the 20th of April, exempting Danish
steam vessels from re-measurement in this country.

I have, &c.,
DERBY.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 20th day
of April, 1883.
Present:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act,
1862," it is enacted that, "whenever it is made to appear to
Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement of
tonnage of merchant ships for the time being in force under
the principal Act have been adopted by the Government of
any foreign country, and are in force in that country, it shall
be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council to direct that
the ships of such foreign country shall be deemed to be of
the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other
national papers; and thereupon it shall no longer be neces-
sary for such ships to be re-measured in any port or place in
Her Majesty's dominions, but such ships shall be deemed to
be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or
other papers, in the same manner, to the same extent, and
for the same purposes in, to, and for which the tonnage
denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships is to be
deemed the tonnage of such ships":
And whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876," it is
enacted that, "where Her Majesty has power, under 'The
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,' or any Act passed or hereafter
to be passed amending the same, to make an Order in
Council, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time
to make such Order in Council, and by Order in Council to
revoke, alter, or add to any Order so made":
And whereas by Order in Council dated the 29th day of
February, 1868, Her Majesty, to whom it was made to appear
that the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of
merchant ships now in force under "The Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854," had been adopted by the Government of His
Majesty the King of Denmark, and were in force in that
country, was pleased to direct that the ships of Denmark the
certificates of Danish nationality and registry of which were
dated on or after the 1st day of October, 1867, should be
deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in the said certificates
of Danish nationality and registry:
And whereas certain modifications were subsequently
made in the said rules concerning the measurement of ton-
nage of merchant ships in Denmark, whereby from and after
the 1st day of October, 1878, the allowance for engine-room
in certain steamships would be estimated in a mode differing
from that in force in this country; and it was made to
appear to Her Majesty that it was desirable to alter the said
first recited Order in Council so far as the same applied or
related to the mode of estimating the allowance for engine
room in Danish steamships:
And whereas Her Majesty, by Order in Council dated the
30th day of December, 1878, was pleased to direct, as regards
Danish steamships, that, if the owner or master of any
Danish steamship measured after the said 1st day of
October, 1878, desires the allowance for engine room in his
ship to be estimated under the British instead of under the
Danish rules, such engine room shall be measured, and the
allowance calculated according to the British rules:
And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty
that it is expedient that certain additions should be made to
the provisions of the said last recited Order in Council in
regard to the mode of estimating the net registered tonnage
of certain Danish steamships:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in virtue of the powers vested
in Her by the said recited Acts, and by and with the advice
of Her Privy Council, is further pleased to direct as follows :—
viz., that, in the event of the net registered tonnage of
merchant ships belonging to the said Kingdom of Denmark
which are propelled by steam or any other power requiring
engine room, estimated under the British rules, being
denoted in the said certificates of Danish nationality and
registry issued on or after the 1st day of September, 1882,
such ships shall be deemed to be of the tonnage so denoted in
the said certificates.
C. L. PEEL.

Fixing Period for Exporters' Entry.

CUSTOMS.—In pursuance of the provisions contained in
section 160 of "The Customs Laws Consolidation Act,
1882" (copy of which section is printed at foot hereof), I,
Harry Albert Atkinson, Commissioner of Trade and Customs,
do hereby direct that the period within which the exporter
of goods for which no bond is required, or his agent, shall
deliver to the proper officer of Customs an entry in respect
of such goods, and do such other things as are required by
the said section, shall be six days after the final clearance
outwards of the exporting ship.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
[Commissioner's Order No. 188.]

160. The exporter of goods for which no bond is required,
     or his agent, shall, before the final clearance outwards of the
     exporting ship, or within such period as the Commissioner
     may direct, deliver to the proper officer at the port of ship-
     ment an entry and shipping bills, with so many duplicates as
     may be required, in the Form No. 11, in Schedule A to this
     Act, and containing the several particulars indicated in or
     required thereby, and shall subscribe a declaration at the
     foot thereof that such particulars are correctly stated; and,
     on the demand of the proper officer, shall produce the invoice,
     bills of lading, and other documents relating to the goods,
     and shall answer all such questions as may be put to him by
     such officer to test the accuracy of such particulars; and on
     failure to comply with any of the foregoing requirements the
     exporter or agent shall, for every such offence, be liable to a
     penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.