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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 4

Days for Pound Sales.

4. The days for pound sales shall be Tuesday and Friday in any or every week.

Sealed with the county seal, in our presence, this 16th day of June, 1885.

OTTO G. W. HAST, Members ANDREW DUNLOP, of Council. R. P. McGOUN, Clerk and Treasurer.

I certify that the above by-law has been duly made by special order.

R. P. McGOUN, County Clerk.

Notice of Proposed Loan, Town District of Hastings, County of Hawke's Bay.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 24th June, 1885.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Hastings Town Board, is published in accordance with section 18 of "The Town Districts Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1883."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Hastings Town Board Office, 18th June, 1885.

SIR,-In accordance with the provisions of section 145 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," I herewith forward you the result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Hastings Town District, taken on Friday, the 12th instant, to decide if it be advisable to empower the Hastings Town District Board to borrow the sum of £20,000, for the purpose of carrying out a scheme for the efficient drainage of the said district.

The result of the poll was as follows:-

For the proposal ... 277 Against the proposal (recorded, 17; not recorded, 113) ... 130 Informal ... 1

Total ... 408

Total number of votes on the roll, 408.

The majority of votes polled in favour of the proposal being five in excess of the majority of two-thirds required by the Town Districts Act, I declare the proposal to have been duly carried.

J. N. WELLWOOD, Chairman, Hastings Town District Board. The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 23rd June, 1885.

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

Name. Occupation. Residence.

Carl Wilhelm Berg ... Settler ... Stoney Creek, Palmerston N. Charles Henry ... Gunsmith ... Dunedin. Henry Elkis ... Farmer ... Temuka. Hermann Nitz ... Sheepfarmer ... Whareama.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Bonus for Kerosene.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 18th February, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus will be paid for the production of kerosene under the following conditions:-

A bonus of sixpence per gallon will be paid on kerosene produced within the colony to an extent not exceeding 50,000 gallons, in quantities of not less than 10,000 gallons at a time; the kerosene to be of a quality approved of by Government, and to be sold at a fair average market price.

Conditions.

1. Notice of intention to claim the above bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1885.

2. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1886.

3. The first claimant 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.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 10th December, 1884

NOTICE is hereby given that the following bonuses will be paid on articles produced in the Colony of New Zealand, as under:-

STARCH.

A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be given on the first 50 tons of good marketable starch manufactured in the Colony of New Zealand.

Conditions.

1. Notice of intention to claim the bonus 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 who proves, to the satisfaction of the Government, that he has fulfilled all the conditions is to be the recipient of the bonus.

4. Evidence to be produced of such a nature as will enable an officer appointed by the Government to certify that the above-stated quantity has been actually made, sold, and delivered.

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.