THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 771

PATENT FOR AN IMPROVED EXPANSIVE ROTARY
ENGINE FOR APPLYING THE MOTIVE POWER
OF STEAM OR SIMILAR ACTING MOTIVE
POWERS.

NOTICE is hereby given, that an Extraordinary
General Meeting of the Daily Southern Cross
and Weekly News Company (Limited) will be held
in the Board-room of Mr. C. Tothill's offices, Short-
land Street, Auckland, on 7th December, at 12
o'clock noon, for the purpose of confirming a reso-
lution passed at an extraordinary general meeting
held on the 30th October, 1876, for the voluntary
winding up of the Daily Southern Cross and Weekly
News Company (Limited).

THIS is to notify that JAMES BAIRD, of Ponsonby,
near Auckland, Engineer, did, on the twenty-
fourth day of August last, deposit at the office of the
Patent Officer, in the Colonial Secretary's Office in
Wellington, a specification or instrument in writing
under his hand and seal, particularly describing and
ascertaining the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed; and that,
by reason of such deposit, the said Invention is pro-
tected and secured to him exclusively for the term of
six calendar months thence next ensuing.

And I do further notify that the said James Baird
has given notice in writing, at my office, of his in-
tention to proceed with his application for Letters
Patent for the said Invention, and that I have ap-
pointed Friday, the nineteenth day of January next,
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at my office, to
hear and consider the said application and all ob-
jections thereto; and I do hereby require all persons
having an interest in opposing the grant of such
Letters Patent to leave, on or before the fifteenth
day of January next, at my office in Wellington,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said
application, otherwise they will be precluded from
urging the same.

Given under my hand this thirty-first day of
October, 1876.

593 W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

CHAS. WILLIAMSON,
Secretary.

Dated at Auckland, this 31st day of October,
1876. 584

NOTICE.

AN Extraordinary General Meeting of the Share-
holders in the City of Auckland Gold Mining
Company (Limited) will be held on the 11th day of
December, 1876, for the purpose of considering the
Liquidator's account, and passing final resolution.

J. H. HARRISON,
Liquidator.

Coromandel, 4th November, 1876. 595

WAIHO GOLD MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

A Meeting of the Board of Directors held on
the 23rd instant, it was resolved that a Fourth
Call of Sixpence per Share be called for, to enable
the Manager to sue for all back calls.

Call to be paid at the Office of the Company on
Wednesday, 8th November. All calls not paid by
the 15th November will be sued for.

592 FRANK SLEE,
Manager.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given by us, the undersigned,
Pierce Lanigan and Martin Danaher, now or
late of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand,
Contractors, participating up to the 20th day of
March, 1875, in certain contracts under the style or
firm of "Danaher and Lanigan," that since said date
we have not been associated as copartners or parti-
cipators in any business or contract whatever.

Dated this 30th day of October, 1876.

PIERCE LANIGAN.

Witness to the signature of the said Pierce
Lanigan-Fitzherbert R. Caffry, Solicitor, Wanganui.

MARTIN DANAHER.

Witness to the signature of the said Martin
Danaher-Samuel Jackson, Solicitor, Auckland. 594

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.