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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Barkly to take charge of and distribute the funds
generously forwarded by the London Committee of
the Mauritius Relief Fund, in aid of the sufferers by
the sad Epidemic which has lately caused such
ravages in this Colony, it was resolved to make an
earnest appeal both in India and Australia for
further assistance towards relieving the destitution
and misery which prevails here to a very great
extent.

Owing to the extraordinarily protracted prevalence
of this virulent fever, the resources of private and
public charity in the Colony are all but exhausted,
and the funds received from England barely suffice
for the immediate wants of many thousands whom
the fever has reduced to an almost incredible state
of destitution and misery, and amongst whom the
fever, though now happily less fatal in its results,
still lingers with great persistency.

Upwards of 33,000 persons have perished, being
nearly one-tenth of the total population of the Island,
whilst in the town of Port Louis alone the deaths
number nearly 20,000 or a fourth part of the popu-
lation. It may be unnecessary to remind you that,
from this Colony, in happier times, have emanated
spontaneous subscriptions for the relief of distress in
all parts, including the Indian Relief Fund, Lanca-
shire Cotton Famine Relief Fund and others, whilst
this is the first occasion, though ofttimes sorely tried
before, that this community is forced to appeal to
the general public for the assistance which is so
urgently needed.

I am desired by the Committee to request you
kindly to give publicity and your kind patronage to
this appeal, and, in conclusion, would merely add
that assistance in the way of clothing or provisions
will be as gratefully accepted as pecuniary aid.
Subscriptions to the Mauritius Relief Fund will be
received at all the branches of the Oriental Bank
Corporation. Rice or other supplies may be shipped
direct to the Mauritius Committee, Port Louis.

I have, &c.,
HENRY J. JOURDAIN,
Honorary Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that
JAMES COUTTS CRAWFORD, Esq.,
DANIEL POLLEN, Esq., and
ALFRED ROWLAND CHETHAM STRODE, Esq.,
have resigned their seats in the Legislative Council
of New Zealand, and that His Excellency the
Governor has accepted such resignations.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th November, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that in conformity with clause
3 of "The Otago Municipal Corporation Act,
1865," the name of the following person has been
sent in to this office, by the Town Clerk, as having
been elected Mayor of Clyde, in the room of J. D.
Ferand, Esq., resigned:
DONALD MCPHERSON, Esq.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1867.

THE following Bills passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Hawke's Bay,
intituled-

"The Hawke's Bay Cemetery Act, 1867;"
"The Slaughter-house Act, 1867;"
"The Tollgate Act, 1867;"

which Bills were reserved for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid before
the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to
assent to the same.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES EDWARD WILSON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Waipori, as defined
in proclamation of 12th November, 1867, and pub-
lished in New Zealand Gazette of 14th November,
1867.
E. W. STAFFORD.

N.B. The above Notice has been republished in consequence
of Mr. Wilson's name having been printed "John Edward
Wilson," in Gazette of 14th November.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1867.

LETTERS PATENT and Letters of Registration
in New Zealand. The sections two to seven
inclusive and section twenty of "The Patents Act,
1860," and the Supplementary Matters required in
the Patents Office, are published for the information
of persons desiring to obtain Letters Patent for
inventions or improvements, or Letters of Registra-
tion for inventions or improvements already patented
elsewhere.
E. W. STAFFORD.

SECTIONS OF "PATENTS ACT, 1860."

2. Any person being the originator or discoverer
   of any new invention or improvement for which no
   patent or instrument in the nature of letters patent
   has been issued or granted in New Zealand or any
   other country and being desirous of obtaining letters
   patent under this Act shall deposit with the Colonial
   Treasurer the sum of ten pounds and shall leave at
   the office or in the custody of such person as the
   Governor may from time to time or for any particular
   case appoint a petition addressed to the Governor
   stating clearly and succinctly the object to be
   attained by his invention or discovery and praying
   that letters patent may be granted to him for the
   exclusive use thereof in the Colony.

3. The inventor shall deliver a written description
   or specification in duplicate of his invention or
   improvement and of the manner and process of com-
   pounding the same in such full clear and exact terms
   as to distinguish the same from all other things
   before known and to enable any person skilled in the
   art or science of which it is a branch or with which
   it is most nearly connected to make compound and
   use the same.

4. In the case of any machine he shall fully explain
   the principle and the several modes in which he has
   contemplated the application of that principle or
   character by which it may be distinguished from
   other inventions.

5. He shall accompany the whole with drawings
   and written references made in duplicate where the
   nature of the case admits of drawings or specimens
   of the ingredients or of the composition of matter
   sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment.

6. The applicant for a patent shall furnish dupli-
   cate drawings wherever the case admits of drawings,
   one of which shall be deposited in the office of the
   Colonial Secretary or other officer appointed in that
   behalf and the other shall be annexed to the patent
   and considered a part of the specification thereof and
   a copy of the specification shall be in all cases
   annexed to the patent.