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.

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Gold Fields.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1884.

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

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Mines.

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 fifteen miles from the nearest alluvial gold workings, or, if in quartz, not less than ten 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.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouses.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested, I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do, by this order under my hand, revoke and annul the appointment of the under-mentioned warehouses for the reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely:—

Port of Invercargill.

Portion of the cellar of a brick building situate on Section No. 8, Block LXXVI., Crescent, Invercargill, with entrance from Wood Street, and known as

McPHERSON'S BOND.

Port of Invercargill.

The cellar and a portion of the ground and first floors of a brick building, roofed with iron, situate in Esk Street, on Allotments D and E of Section No. 12, Block I., and known as

McPHERSON'S BOND.

Port of Foxton.

A wooden building, situate on part of Block VIII., Main Street, Foxton, and known as

THYNNE'S BOND.

Port of New Plymouth.

A corrugated-iron building, with corrugated-iron roof, situated on the Customhouse Reserve at Waitara West, Sections Nos. 10 and 12.

Port of Auckland.

A building, partly of iron and partly of concrete, with iron roof, situate in Stanley Street, on part of Allotment No. 19, Section No. 9, City of Auckland, and known as

WINTER'S KEROSENE BOND.

The brick building, with slate roof, situate at the corner of West Queen Street and Albert Street, on Allotment No. 22, Section No. 17, and known as

HULL'S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

W. J. M. LARNACH,

(for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.)

Commissioner's Order No. 219.]

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by "The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882," I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely:—

Port of Invercargill.

Part of the ground floor and of the first storey of building, constructed of wood and iron, situate on Section No. 2, Block II., Town of Invercargill, to be known as

McPHERSON'S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

W. J. M. LARNACH,

(for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.)

Commissioner's Order No. 220.]

Notice to Mariners, No. 1 of 1885.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1885.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Hydrographer to the Admiralty, is published for general information.

Jos. A. TOLE,

(for the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.)

SOUTH AMERICA—SOUTH-EAST COAST.—STATEN ISLAND.

Fixed Light at St. John Harbour.

WITH reference to Notice to Mariners No. 147, of the 8th August, 1884, on the exhibition of a light on Cape St. John, the north-east point of Staten Island,—

The Government of the Argentine Republic has given notice that, on the 25th May, 1884, the light was exhibited, not on Cape St. John, as previously reported, but from the western entrance point of St. John Harbour.

The light is a fixed white light, visible through an arc of 93°, or between the bearings of S. 52° E. and S. 41° W.; it is elevated 200 feet above the sea, and should be seen in clear weather from a distance of about fourteen miles.

Position, lat 54° 43' 25" S., long. 63° 47' W.

The bearings are magnetic. Variation, 17½° easterly in 1884.

By command of their Lordships.

W. J. L. WHARTON,

Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 27th November, 1884.

Notice to Mariners, No. 2 of 1885.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1885.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, is published for general information.

Jos. A. TOLE,

(for the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.)

NEW LIGHT AT THE BACK OF THE SHIP PATCH, AND ALTERATION OF COWAN COWAN LIGHT, MORETON BAY.

NOTICE is hereby given that, on or about the 4th February, a new light will be exhibited from the Tangaluma Hills, at the back of the Ship Patch, at an elevation of 295 feet above the sea-level. The apparatus consists of three holophotes placed vertically, and when in line with the light on Cowan Cowan Point will lead in through the North or Howe Channel in not less than 20 feet at low water. The light will be visible from a distance of twenty-three miles.

On the same date the apparatus at Cowan Cowan, which is now obscured to the eastward of a S. by E. ½ E. bearing, will be visible to the eastward of that bearing.

Directions.—Vessels from the southward, after rounding Cape Moreton and entering the red sector of the Yellow Patch Light, will keep within its south-western edge until the three following lights are in sight, viz.: The Tangaluma, Cowan Cowan, and Comboyuro Point Lights. When the