DEC. 14.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

1865

SPENCER GULF.-LOWLY POINT.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 5, of 1882, it
is hereby notified that, owing to unavoidable circum-
stances, the lighthouse now being erected on Lowly
Point will not be ready for exhibition of the light
before February, 1883.
Further particulars will be furnished in due course.

R. II. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Port Adelaide, 7th November, 1882.

LIGHTHOUSE AT CARPENTER ROCKS, ADJACENT TO
CAPE BANKS, S.E. COAST.

REFERRING to Notices Nos. 4 and 12, of 1882,
mariners are hereby informed that, on and after the
night of the 1st January, 1883, there will be ex-
hibited from a lighthouse erected on the point known
as Carpenter Rocks a second order revolving light
showing alternately one red and two bright lights,
at intervals of 20 seconds each. The red light will
be visible about eight miles, and the bright lights
about ten miles, all round the horizon.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Port Adelaide, 6th November, 1882.

Officiating Ministers for 1882.-Notice No. 27.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1882.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1880," the following name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information :-

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Reverend George Henry Somerset Walpole, M.A.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1882.

THE Alma of Otago Lodge, No. 34, situated at
Wyndham, is registered as a branch of the
Grand Lodge of New Zealand of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society, under "The
Friendly Societies Act, 1882," this 7th day of Decem-
ber, 1882.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 9th December, 1882.

PATENT for the Permanent-way of Railways and
Tramways.

EDMUND WINDER OTWAY, of Wynyard Street,
Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Civil
Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification
of the said invention; and I have appointed Friday,
the 16th day of March next, at 10 o'clock in the fore-
noon, at this office, to hear the said application and all
objections thereto; and I require all persons having
an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters
Patent to leave, on or before the 1st 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.
No. 744.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1882.

PATENT for an Invention for a new Grating Ripple
for Gold-saving Purposes.

JOHN ASPINALL, Of Skipper's Point, Upper Shot-
over, Lake County, in the Colony of New Zealand,
Miner, and JOSEPH JOHNSTON, of Invercargill, in the
said Colony of New Zealand, Ironfounder and
Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification
of the said invention; and I have appointed Friday,
the 16th 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
having an interest in opposing the grant of such
Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 1st 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.
No. 743.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.-SYDNEY ALFRED WANT, Solicitor of
the Supreme Court of New South Wales, at
Sydney, has been appointed this day, by his Honour
Mr. Justice Williams, a Commissioner of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, in the said city, under "The
Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,"
for the purpose of administering and taking affidavits
and acknowledgments of married women, as in the
said Act mentioned.

Dated at Dunedin, this 8th day of December, 1882.
COLIN MCK. GORDON,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Dunedin.

Institution for the Deaf-and-Dumb, Sumner.

APPLICATIONS for appointment to the office of
Assistant-Master in this institution will be
received at this office up to the 31st December next.
The salary at first will be either £110 with board,
&c., or £150 without board. Applications must be
accompanied with testimonials, and particulars as to
age, &c. No previous training in the method of
instruction here adopted is required. A teacher
holding a certificate of Class D from the Education
Department would be preferred. The person ap-
pointed will be required to enter on his duties about
the end of January.
WM. JAS. HABENS,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th November, 1882.

Standing Orders on Local Bills.

THE following amended Standing Orders of the
Houses of the General Assembly relative to
Local Bills are published for general information.
16th October, 1882.
F. E. CAMPBELL,
Clerk of Parliaments.

1. Local Bills are those which, not being Private
   Bills, affect particular localities only.
2. No Local Bill shall be read a second time unless
   notice shall have been given of the said Bill in the