THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
7. Notice of the said application shall be inserted
in the Government Gazette and in one newspaper
published in the principal town of each Province in
the Colony and requiring any person who may wish
to prefer any objection to the granting of such letters
patent to send within four months of the said publi-
cation to the office or address of such person so
appointed as aforesaid a statement in writing setting
forth the grounds of such objection subscribed with
his proper name and address.

20. No person shall receive a patent under this
    Act for an invention or discovery which has been
    previously patented in Great Britain or any other
    country but it shall be lawful for the Governor in his
    discretion on the application of any person being the
    holder or assignee of any patent granted in Great
    Britain or any other country for any new discovery
    or invention and upon such proof as the Governor
    may deem sufficient that such person is the bona fide
    holder or assignee of the said patent and that the
    same is in full force and upon payment to the
    Colonial Treasurer of the sum of ten pounds to grant
    letters of registration under the Seal of the Colony
    to the holder of such patent as aforesaid or his
    assignee and such letters of registration shall be
    deposited in the office of the Colonial Secretary and
    shall be deemed to be letters patent granted under
    this Act for such invention or improvement and shall
    have the same force and effect as letters patent
    granted thereunder and shall unless repealed by writ
    of scire facias or otherwise enure to the benefit of the
    holder during the continuance of the original patent
    in the country in which it was granted and no longer
    and all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such
    letters of registration in the same way mutatis
    mutandis and as fully as to letters patent granted
    under this Act.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATTERS REQUIRED

In respect of an application for Letters Patent.

A Statutory Declaration made by the applicant
before a Justice of the Peace or Notary Public, that
the statements contained in the petition are true,
and that the applicant believes himself to be the
originator or discoverer of the invention or improve-
ment. Such declaration, if made out of the Colony,
must be made before a person authorized to adminis-
ter oaths, whose authority to do so must be certified
by a Notary Public.

A copy of each Newspaper in which, under the
seventh section of the Act, the applicant is to adver-
tise notice of the application.

In respect of an application for Letters of Registration
under Section 20 of the Act.

Duplicate copies of original Patent and Specifica-
tion, certified by a Notary Public.

Statutory declaration by a professional person,
not the claimant, that he has searched the Registry
of Patents of the colony or country in which the
patent issued, or that there is no such Registry, —
and that such patent is, according to the laws of the
colony or country, still in force, and not assigned or
parted with.

Statutory declaration by applicant that he is the
person named in the original Letters Patent, and the
bona fide holder thereof; or (if claimed under assign-
ment of Patent or Grant of Right), certified copy in
duplicate of the Deed or Instrument of Assignment
or Grant, with statutory declaration by Claimant
annexed, made before a Notary Public, that he is the
person named in the copy deed annexed, and that it
is a true copy of the original deed.

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Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 4th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALFRED AUGUSTUS CATOMORE, Esq.,
to be Registrar at Dunedin of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand. The appointment to date from the
1st January, 1868.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 5th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
of Arrowtown, in the Province of Otago, to be a
Coroner within the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 5th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

JAMES DOUGLAS, Esq.,
of Frankton, in the Province of Otago, of his
appointment as Coroner for the Colony.

E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1867.

THE following Report of the Inquiry held under
"The Inquiry into Wrecks Act, 1863," on the
wreck of the three-masted schooner "Manukau," is
published for general information.

(By order)

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

INQUIRY INTO WRECKS.

REPORT on the Wreck of the three-masted Schooner
"Manukau."

To the Honorable the Postmaster-General, -

I, the undersigned James Coutts Crawford, Resident
Magistrate, did under the provisions of "The Inquiry
into Wrecks Act, 1863," duly proceed to make
inquiry respecting the loss of a certain ship called
the "Manukau," of the Port of Wellington, on the
3rd day of October instant, on the coast four miles
north of the Manawatu River, to wit on the 15th day
of October instant, and had before me and examined
on oath, divers persons and witnesses, to wit, George
Briant, master; Daniel Ross, second mate; John
Hansen, carpenter; William Richardson, A.B.; and
Thomas Woods, A.B. (all of the late schooner
"Manukau"), the original depositions of whose
evidence are hereunto annexed; and upon such
investigation and examination of witnesses as afore-
said, I find and beg to report to the Honorable the
Postmaster-General of New Zealand as follows, that
is to say:--

1. That the official number of said ship called
   the "Manukau" is 46,447, of which George
   Briant is master, who holds no certificate of
   competency, and which ship belonged to the
   New Zealand Steam Navigation Company.

2. That the loss or damage herein more particu-
   larly mentioned happened on the 3rd day of
   October, 1867, at about four to a quarter past
   four o'clock in the morning, on the coast four
   miles north of the Manawatu River.