THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 80]

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1882.

The following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

John Hall,
Minister acting for the Minister for Public Works.

FOXTON-NEW PLYMOUTH RAILWAY.—WAVERLEY-PATUA (WHENUAKURA CONTRACT).

Accepted.
Wilkie and Crawford, Wanganui ... £21,379 12 6

Declined.
Mace and Bassett, Patea ... £21,553 0 0
Thomas Denby, Wanganui ... £21,827 0 0
Berry and Newman, New Plymouth ... £22,262 10 0
John Maclean, Auckland ... £22,840 5 9
Powell, Orr, and Co., New Plymouth ... £23,141 10 0
F. H. Downes, Dunedin ... £23,551 14 0
H. McKenzie and Co., Dunedin ... £23,644 1 4
John McComb, Dunedin ... £23,802 13 0
Charles Bray, Wanganui ... £23,899 17 9
Kirkpatrick and Gallagher, Manutahi ... £23,950 13 0
J. Saunders, Wellington ... £24,897 4 0
D. Sealey and Pat McLaughlin, Wanganui ... £24,991 3 0
Joshua Goodfellow, Wellington ... £25,240 10 0
W. G. Bassett, Wanganui ... £25,363 10 0
J. Gibbes, Wanganui ... £25,644 0 0
W. B. Kendall, Hawera ... £26,025 12 0
A. N. Blair, Dunedin ... £27,170 0 0
A. Nathan, Hawera ... £27,677 13 6
M. Danaher, Auckland ... £28,449 15 9
J. McLean, Nelson ... £31,494 14 0

The following were allowed to withdraw their tenders:—
Thomas H. Parsons, Christchurch ... £18,532 16 8
M. Hislop and Co., Dunedin ... £19,720 0 0
W. R. Richards and Co., Hawera ... £20,766 16 7
J. J. O’Brien, Auckland ... £21,507 0 0

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th March, 1882.

PATENT for a Suspender, known as “The Paragon Suspender.”

Walter Greenfields, of Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Friday, the 9th day of June 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 5th day of June 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.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1882.

PATENT for Improvements in Cooking Ranges or Stoves, and Heating Apparatus.

Walter Cook, of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Friday, the 30th day of June 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 26th day of June 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.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th March, 1882.

PATENT for the Manufacture of the Triple Alloys of Manganese, Titaniferous Steel Sand, and Carbon.

Edward Kersey Cooper, of Auckland, New Zealand, Mining Manager, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Friday, the 23rd day of June 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 19th day of June 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.

Officiating Ministers for 1882.—Notice No. 6.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Reverend Thomas F. King.
The Reverend William St. Clair-Towers Tisdall, M.A.

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Samuel Griffiths.
The Reverend Thomas Francis Jones.
The Reverend John Rapley.
The Reverend Thomas John Wills.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Thomas Tonkinson.

W. R. E. Brown,
Registrar-General.

School Site appropriated under “The Education Reserves Act, 1877.”

In exercise of the powers and authorities vested in them by “The Education Reserves Act, 1877,” the School Commissioners for the Canterbury Provincial District have, by resolution dated the 14th March, 1882, appropriated and set apart the parcel of land hereinafter described as a site for a public school.

John Marshman,
Chairman.

Five acres, more or less, in the Waitaki Survey District, Provincial District of Canterbury, being part of Reserve No. 1129 (in red). Bounded—Southernward by the road forming the southern boundary of the said reserve, 700 links; Eastward by a line at right angles thereto 714 links in length, and drawn from a point thereon 2426 links distant from the eastern boundary of the said reserve; and Northward and Westward by lines parallel to the southern and eastern boundaries.