THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 341

"Improvements in Electric Telegraphs, part of the
Invention being applicable to other purposes."
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, Knight,
of Glasgow College, in the City of Glasgow; and
FLEEMING JENKIN,
of No. 5 Fettes Row, in the City of Edinburgh, both
in the Kingdom of Great Britain, to whom Letters
Patent, dated 25th August, 1860, were granted in
Great Britain, for an Invention entitled "Improve-
ments in the means of Telegraphic Communication."
CROMWELL FLEETWOOD VARLEY,
of Fleetwood House, Beckenham, in the County of
Kent, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, to whom
Letters Patent, dated 26th December, 1862, were
granted in Great Britain, for an Invention entitled
"Improvements in Electric Telegraphs."
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, Knight,
of Glasgow College, in the City of Glasgow; and
CROMWELL FLEETWOOD VARLEY,
of Fleetwood House, Beckenham, in the County of
Kent, both in the Kingdom of Great Britain, to
whom Letters Patent, dated 6th July, 1865, were
granted in Great Britain, for an Invention entitled
"Improvements in Electric Telegraphs."
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, Knight,
of Glasgow College, in the City of Glasgow, in the
Kingdom of Great Britain, to whom Letters Patent,
dated 23d July, 1867, were granted in Great Britain,
for an Invention entitled "Improvements in Receiving
or Recording Instruments for Electric Telegraphs."
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent, dated the 7th day of
July, 1870, under "The Patents Act, 1860," in
favour of

ALFRED CHARLES BARKER,
of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury,
Medical Practitioner, for an Invention of "Processes
for the Artificial Production of Adipocere for Com-
mercial Purposes, and for applying it as a detergent."
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the under-mentioned
persons, viz.:-

Name. Residence. Occupation.
John Bode ... ... Kowai District, Can- Farmer.
terbury
Felix Hunger... ... Westport, Nelson Blacksmith.
Rudolph Nielson ... Kowai District, Can- Carter.
terbury
Francis Beissel ... Dunedin ... Hairdresser.
Louis de Beer... ... Queenstown, Otago ... Draper.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1870.

IN conformity with the provisions of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867," the following
Petition from Ratepayers of Wellington, for the City
of Wellington to be constituted a Borough, and
Letter of Assent from the Deputy Superintendent of
Wellington, are published for general information;
and it is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor will consider the Petition on the six-
teenth day of September next.

W. GISBORNE.

To His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON
BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
The Humble Petition of the undersigned Rate-
payers of the City of Wellington.

SHOWETH, -

That your Petitioners are desirous that the City
of Wellington should be constituted a Borough
under an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand, dated 10th October, 1867, and being 31
Vict., No. 24, intituled "An Act to provide for the
establishment of Municipal Corporations," and that
the boundaries of the City of Wellington, for the
purposes of this Petition, should be the same as the
limits thereof are settled and described in the Plan
of the Town of Wellington, Port Nicholson, annexed
to a certain Crown Grant of the New Zealand Com-
pany, dated the 27th day of January, 1848, under the
Seal of the Colony, and under the hand of Sir
George Grey, the then Governor-in-Chief of the
Colony, and which Crown Grant was registered at
Wellington the 19th day of June, 1850, No. 204;
and also such portions of the Harbour of Wellington
as are comprised in a certain Crown Grant thereof,
dated the 16th day of October, 1855; and also the
Town Belt, the Canal and Basin, and the Public
Reserves belonging to the said City of Wellington.

That the said City of Wellington has been, or is
reputed to have been incorporated by an Act of the
Provincial Council of Wellington, Session 14, No. 9,
intituled "An Act to Incorporate the Board of
Works for the City of Wellington, and for other
purposes."

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Excellency will be pleased to constitute the City of
Wellington a Borough, under the provisions of the
said Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
to be bounded as hereinbefore set forth.

And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
C. B. Borlase
Michael Quin
J. M. Taylor
E. W. Mills
Lewis Moss
William Miller
John Plimmer
D. Rainie
Nicholas Marchant, Town Surveyor
J. Rigg, Clerk, Board of Works
J. Dransfield, Chairman of Board of Works
W. B. Rhodes
J. H. Wallace
Peter Laing
William James
Henry R. Kane
Carl Hausmann
F. T. Wilson
R. K. Davis
W. Clark
W. Mason
Geo. Eldershaw
S. Maxton
Benjamin Ling
George H. Wilson
Batt & Richards
H. L. Cohen
E. T. Gillon
Henry Blundell, junior
Jas. F. Wills
N. Reid
Jas. O'Shea
Wakefield Nicholson