DEC. 15.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1633

The orders will be issued for English money for
payment at any office in the list (to be seen at an y
Money Order Office in the colony) of International
Money Order Offices in the United States, and will
be paid at the rate of 4 dollars 87 cents to the pound
sterling.

The applicant for each order must furnish on the
form of requisition, besides the usual particulars,
the placer, of residence of the remitter and payee, as
well as the County and State in which the pavee's
residence is situated.

With the view of preventing the presentation of
money orders in the United States before the cor-
responding advices reach the paying offices, no orders
will be issued at any offices after the time fixed by
the Postmasters for their issue.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1881.

THE Loyal Whangarei Lodge, No. 6341, situated
at Whangarei, is registered as a Branch of the
Auckland District of the Independent Order of Odd-
fellows. Manchester, Unity, Friendly Society, under
"The Friendly Societies Act. 1877." this 12th day of
December, 1881.

War. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Application for Patent.

Patent office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1881.

PATENT for an Improvement in the Rudder of
Ships or Vessels of all kinds.

HENRY AUGUSTUS LEVESTAM, o f Nelson, Engi-
neer, has deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention, and I have appointed Friday,
the 24th day of March next, at 10 o'clock in the,
forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application,
and all objections thereto; and I require all persons,
hating an interest, in opposing the grant of such
Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 20th day
of March next, at this office, particulars in writing
of their objections to the said application, otherwise
they will be precluded from urging the same.

W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Subjects for Civil Service Examination.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
13th December, 1881.

THE following are the Latin and Greek subjects
for the April and October examinations, 1882:---
LATIN. Virgil's Eneid, Books VI. and X. Cæsar's
De Bello Gallico, Books V. and VI.
GREEK.-Xenophon's Anabasis, Books IV. and V.
N.B.-Candidates who take up Latin mill have to
pass iu both prose and verse authors.

By order.
C. C. N. BARRON,
secretary.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

I is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a
lease for gold-mining purposes, under "The

Gold Fields Act, 1866," to the applicant specified in
the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid
objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the
grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and
Lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before the
Dth day of January, 1883.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Reefton.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Mathew Byrne. Style under which it
ig intended to conduct the business: "Murray Creek
Gold-Mining Company." 15 acres 3 roods 4 perches,
west of aud partly adjoining Dauntless lease, Murray
Creek, Reefton Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirteenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-Mining Leases to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regula-
tions made under that Act for the granting of leases
for gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it
is intended to grant leases of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such leases.

Objections to the granting of such leases, stating
tho grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
lodged nith the Warden at Reefton on or before
the 12th day of January, 1882.

Copy of the applications made and plans annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Reefton.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Andrew King. Style under which it
is intended to conduct the business : "Bannockburn
Gold-Mining Company (Limited)." 16 acres 2 roods,
east of Nil Desperandum and Keep-it-Dark, Ina-
ngahua, in the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Applicant: Robert Woodhouse. Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "The
Young Republic Gold-Mining Company." 16 acres
2 roods, north of and adjoining the Reefton Gold-
Mining Company, Inangahua, in the Nelson South-
West Mining District.

Applicant: Daniel McGee. Style under which it
is intended to conduct the business: "The Happy
Valley Gold-Mining Company (Limited)." 16 acres
2 roods,, on the range between Slab Hut Creek and
Merrygigs, Inangahua, in the Nelson South-West
Mining District.

Applicant: William Hindmarsh. Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "Pain-
killer Gold-Mining Company (Limited)." 16 acres
2 roods, Painkiller District, left-hand branch of Ina-
ngahua River, Inangahua, in the Nelson South-West
Mining District.

Applicant: William Hindmarsh. Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "Pain-
killer Gold-Mining Company (Limited)." 16 acres
2 roods, Painkiller District, terminating at the left-
hand branch of the Inangahua River, Inangahua, in
the Nelson South-West Mining District.