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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 178, 25 July 1873, Page 2

Wellington, July 24. The Gazette contains a proclamation of the follow my bonuses to colonial industries —Iron: £5,000 for 1,000 tons pig-iron of marketable quality. No bonus for less than 100 tons. Notice of intention to claim bonus must be lodged before the end of the year. The bonus must be claimed before the end Juue, 1875. Where two claimants are first producers, the first entitled to seven-tenths, the second to three-tenths. A sugar bouus of £2,000 for the production of 250 tons of sugar manufactured in the colony from beet-root: the same daies for notice and claims as for iron, Fi-h bonus : 4s per cwt. for clry or pickled and exported from the colony. The claimant to produce account salee, and exporter to enter into a bond not to reland the fish. Tho bonus payable*, on exportations between August, 1872, and November, 1879. The total Customs revenue of tho colony for the June quarter is £231 262, being £29 000 over the corresponding quarter of 1872. The total revenue for the year ending June 30, is £855,813. The total sro'.d export for the quarter pnded June 30, is 95,039 ounces, value £379,563. Hokitika, July 24. The County authorities have been served with a writ at tho suit of tbe Hokitika and Gre? mouth Tramway Company, for a breach of the regulations under wbich the Con: pany commenced operations. Wellington, July 25. Arrived: Phoebe from Manukaa. Dunedin, July 25. The Provincial Council closes on Monday, when Members of the Assembly will proceed to Wellington. Flour. £12 10s; oatmeal, 24sj pearl harley, 325; bran, £3 10a; pollard, £5; wheat, 5s 3d lo 5s 6d; oate, 4*; barley, 7s. Auckland, July 25. Dunedin flour, £14 to £14 10s; Oamaru flour, £15; Canterbury, £12 10a to £13; wheat. 6s 3d to 6s 6d; oats, 5s 6d to 6s.