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5. The bonus to be paid only on the certificate of such officer.

PRINTING-PAPER.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be given for the production of the first 50 tons of printing-paper made by machinery permanently established and working in the colony. The bonus will be paid to the producer who effects the first bonâ fide sale of the amount of printing-paper specified.

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.

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 30th June, 1885.

2. The claim must be made before the 31st December, 1885.

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.

IRON.

A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be given for the production in New Zealand of 300 tons of pig-iron, of marketable quality, from ore produced in New Zealand.

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 30th June, 1885.

3. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st December, 1886.

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.

Further information and particulars may be obtained by application at the Colonial Secretary's Office.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, 1885.

PRIZE ESSAYS.

Wellington, 29th December, 1884.

O NE gold medal and twenty guineas, one silver medal and ten guineas, and one bronze medal and five guineas will be awarded for essays on the present condition and future prospects of the industrial resources of New Zealand, and the best means for fostering their development.

In judging of the merits of the essays preference will be given to those which are of a practical character, rather than to mere abstract or theoretical disquisitions. The essays must be sent in to the Secretary of the Exhibition, signed with a motto and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the author's name and address, on or before the 1st day of December, 1885. This late date is fixed to enable the essayists, if they desire to do so, to utilize the information which the Exhibition itself will supply.

The essays will be submitted to a Board of three persons, to be hereafter appointed, on whose decision respecting the merits of the essays the above prizes will be awarded; provided the essays reach a sufficiently-deserving standard of excellence.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Gold Fields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1885.

R EWARDS are offered for the discovery of new gold fields, upon the conditions set forth hereunder, payable out of the parliamentary vote of £2,500.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. The maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved discovery of a new gold field in accordance with these conditions is £500; but, if the total sum claimed as rewards in any one year exceeds the parliamentary vote, the amount available only will be divided equally.

2. The newly-discovered gold field, if in alluvial ground, must be situated not less than ten miles from the nearest alluvial gold workings, or, if in quartz, not less than five miles from the nearest existing quartz mines.

3. No grant will be paid upon any application until it shall have been proved that not less than 20,000 ounces of gold have been extracted from the new gold field within two years from the registration of the discovery, if in alluvial workings, and, if in quartz workings, proof of a similar yield from this source within three years from such registration will be required.

4. Any person discovering new gold workings, and being desirous of obtaining a reward, shall immediately forward a written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to the Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within which such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or Resident Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an application for reward.

5. No prospecting is allowed upon Native land without the approval in writing of the Native Minister, or of some one appointed by him in that behalf.

Prospectors going upon Native land without the consent of the owners are liable to the penalties imposed by the Acts relating to gold fields, and will forfeit all claim to reward.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th May, 1885.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

SAMUEL REVANS, Esq.,

of Greytown, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

J. BALIANCE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Additional Regulations for the Examination of Masters and Mates.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th May, 1885.

I N pursuance of the powers vested in me by the 24th and 25th sections of "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," I do hereby make the following additional regulations for the examination of masters and mates, the same being similar to additional regulations issued by the Board of Trade, and do hereby order that they shall come into force on the 1st day of November next.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

Certificates for Home-trade Passenger Ships.

The following additions to those subjects prescribed in the Regulations "Exn. 1" will be made to the examinations for candidates for certificates of competency for home-trade passenger ships:—

(1.) A candidate for a certificate as mate will be required to understand and work out sums in the rules of compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

(2.) A candidate for a certificate as master will be required, in addition to the above, to understand the use of the quadrant, to be able to observe with it, and to find the index-error by the horizon. He will also be required to find the latitude by a meridian altitude of the sun, and to give written answers to certain practical questions on the subject of the deviation of the compass.

A candidate for a mate's certificate will be allowed eight hours for the completion of the whole of the papers prescribed for that grade, and a candidate for a master's certificate will be allowed ten hours.