SEPT. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1265

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 Christchurch.

The cellar and top floor of a brick building, roofed with iron, situate at 154, Worcester Street, Christchurch, on Lots 8 and 9, Section 718, to be known as the

VICTORIA BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

J. BALLANCE,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 428.]

Notice to Mariners, No. 26 of 1892.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1892.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, are published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON.

VICTORIA.—PORT PHILLIP BAY.
(All bearings are magnetic.)

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners published the 14th September, 1891, regarding change of form and colour of buoys and beacons, it is hereby notified that during the last week of September, 1892, the existing North and South Channel buoys and wreck buoy in Cole’s Channel will be removed, and in lieu thereof three upright cone buoys, painted red, will be substituted and moored in the positions indicated by the following bearings from the several proposed buoys:—

North Buoy: North-west edge of west sand, in 18ft. of water, High Light, Queenscliff, bearing S.S.W., and Pile Light, West Channel, E. ¾ S.

Middle Buoy: Western edge of west sand, in 20ft. of water, with Pile Light, West Channel, bearing N.E. ¾ E., and Red Bluff beacon N. by W.

South Buoy: South-west edge of west sand, in 18ft. of water, Pile Light, West Channel, bearing N.E. by N., and conspicuous tree on north end of Duck Island bearing N.W. by W. ½ W.

SOUTH CHANNEL.

Referring to Notice to Mariners published the 6th February, 1889, containing general information regarding lights, buoys, beacons, &c., notice is hereby given that on and after the 6th October, 1892, the green light shown from No. 15 gas buoy, eastern end of South Channel, will be removed, and in lieu thereof a white occulting light will be exhibited, showing therefrom eight flashes and eclipses every minute.

WRECKED STEAMSHIP “GAMBIER.”

Referring to Notice to Mariners published the 28th August, 1891, regarding the position of the sunken wreck “Gambier,” it is hereby notified that during the destruction and removal of the “Gambier,” which operation commences forthwith, six buoys will be moored around the wreck, and distant therefrom about 300ft.

The signal lanterns and balls will continue to be exhibited as heretofore, either from the wreck or from a wreck-marking vessel, until such wreck has been removed.

The wreck lies distant from the Pope’s-eye Fort about 5 cables, the fort bearing therefrom E. by S. ¾ S., and Swan Beacon N.

Mariners are warned to give the position indicated a wide berth.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Engineer in Charge, Ports and Harbours.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 8th August, 1892.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Land in the Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” and its amendments, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, in September, 1891, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant of the date mentioned therein.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nukumaru Survey District, containing by admeasurement 15 acres and 19 perches, more or less, being a road of not less than 100 links in width, the centre-line of which commences at a point on the southern boundary-line of the Rangitatau No. 1c Block (marked A on the plan hereinafter referred to) distant north 21618 links and east 12560 links from Mount Smith Trig. Station; and proceeds in a north-westerly direction over the said block to a point on its northern boundary (marked B on the plan hereinafter referred to) distant north 33853 links and east 5867 links from the above-named trig. station: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; the same being more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W. 596, deposited in the District Land and Survey Office, Wellington.

Date of Governor’s warrant, 22nd May, 1891.

Dated this 30th day of August, 1892.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Pig-iron from Ironsand or Iron-ore.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of pig-iron of marketable quality manufactured in the colony after this date from magnetic or titaniferous ironsand or iron-ore, all material, fuel, and fluxes being the produce of New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.

2. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of iron is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the iron is of good marketable quality.

3. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the required quality of pig-iron before the date named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided; but in no case shall the total amount of money paid by way of bonus exceed £500.

4. The iron in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the ironsand or ore from which it is manufactured will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that not only the ore, but that the lime, coal, and any other material used in the manufacture, is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales of pig-iron have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Salt.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of salt, exclusively either by evaporation of salt-water or from rock mined in the colony, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.

2. Not more than £250 will be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island, and not more than £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.

3. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of salt is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the salt is of good marketable quality.

4. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the stated quantity of salt in the North or South Islands respectively before the 31st March, 1893, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus in either the North Island or the South Island, the amount will be divided, but in no case shall more than £250 be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island and £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.

5. The salt in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the material used in its manufacture will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that the salt is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.