1164

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 81]

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

THOMAS WILLIAM PORTER

to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Borough of Gisborne, vice S. Stevenson.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Clerk of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

Constable CHARLES O'REILLY

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Whangaroa,
vice A. P. Ratcliffe, resigned.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL BEGG,
ROBERT CHISHOLM,
ROBERT GLENDINNING,
DAVID HOOD, and
ARCHIBALD HILSON ROSS

to be the Licensing Committee for the District of Roslyn.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

CHARLES WEDGE

to be the Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Roslyn.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Volunteer Officers promoted and appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make
the following promotions and appointments:—

Lyttelton Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Hugh McLellan to be Captain. Date of com-
mission, 2nd August, 1883.
Second Lieutenant Frank Dransfield to be Lieutenant. Date
of commission, 1st January, 1883.
Thomas Edwards to be Lieutenant. Date of commission,
3rd August, 1883.

E Battery of Artillery.
Lieutenant Joseph Thomas Strange to be Captain. Date of
commission, 30th July, 1883.

Christ's College Rifle Volunteers.
Henry Alan Scott to be Captain.
James Crosby Martin to be Lieutenant.
Henry Cotterill to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 31st July, 1883.

Christchurch Rifle Volunteers.
Frederick Duncan Fergusson to be Captain.
George John Smith to be Lieutenant.
John Paterson Newman to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 3rd August, 1883.

Sydenham Rifle Volunteers.
John Joyce to be Captain.
Walter Johnson to be Lieutenant.
Richard Linn to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 1st August, 1883.

Petone Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Henry Samuel Fitzherbert to be Captain. Date
of commission, 2nd August, 1883.

JOHN BRYCE.

Commissions of Volunteer Officers antedated.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ante-
date the commissions of the under-mentioned officers
to the 1st January, 1883:—

Lieutenant Horatio McCulloch Lyon, D Battery of
Artillery.
Lieutenant Henry Austin King, Napier Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Robert White, Temuka Rifle Volunteers.

JOHN BRYCE.

Services of Cadet Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the

Oamaru South School Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 2nd August, 1883.

JOHN BRYCE.

Cadet Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband

The Dunedin High School Artillery Cadet Volunteers.
The under-mentioned gentleman therefore ceases to be an
officer in the Volunteer Force, his commission having lapsed
under the provisions of "The Volunteer Act, 1881":—

George Malcolm Thomson, late Captain,

JOHN BRYCE.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue
Letters of Naturalisation, under "The Aliens Act,
1880," in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

THOMAS DICK.

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
manganeisen, and a similar bonus for a like amount of man-
ganese-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,