APRIL 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 575

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1882.

PATENT for Improvements in Fire Bridges suitable
for Locomotives Portable Engines.

JOHN ALVES, of Dunedin, Engineer, has deposited
at this office a specification of the said invention; and
I have appointed Friday, the 14th day of July 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 10th day of July 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.

Governor of Auckland College and Grammar School
elected.

A S Returning Officer, I have received notification
from the Chancellor of the University of New
Zealand that, in accordance with the provisions of
"The Auckland College and Grammar School Act,
1880," an election of one person as Governor of the
Auckland College and Grammar School has been
held, and that

EDWARD KING TYLER, Esq.,

is duly elected.

JOHN JAMES,
Auckland, 5th April, 1882.
Returning Officer.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1882.

PATENT for Improvements in Ploughs.

JAMES HOWARD, of Bedford, in the County of
Bedford, Agricultural Engineer, and EDWARD TENNEY
BOUSFIELD, of the same place, Engineer, have de-
posited at this office a specification of the said in-
vention; 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.

Governor of Auckland College and Grammar School
elected.

IN accordance with "The Auckland College and
Grammar School Act, 1877," and the regulations
thereunder for conducting the election of Governors
by the persons authorized to do so by subsection 2 of
section 3 of that Act, I hereby notify that

EDMUND AUGUSTUS MACKECHNIE, Esq.,

has been this day elected Governor of the Board of
Governors constituted by said Act.

JOHN JAMES,
Returning Officer.

Auckland, 5th April, 1882.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—JOHN ADAIR BOYD, of Glen Innes,
New South Wales, a solicitor of the Supreme
Court of New South Wales, has been this day ap-
pointed by his Honor the Chief Justice a Commis-
sioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, under
the second section of "The Commissioners of the
Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of taking
any oath, affidavit, or affirmation, as in the said
section mentioned.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar of the Supreme Court.
Wellington, 31st March, 1882.

Governor of Auckland College and Grammar School
elected.

Board of Education,
Auckland, 5th April, 1882.

IN accordance with "The Auckland College and
Grammar School Act, 1877," and with the regu-
lations thereunder for the election of Governors by
the Board of Education for the District of Auckland,
I hereby notify that, at a meeting of the said Board
held this day,

JOSEPH MCMULLEN DARGAVILLE, Esq.,

was duly re-elected a Governor of the Board of
Governors constituted by the said Act.

WM. P. MOAT,
Chairman of Meeting.

Latin and Greek Subjects for Civil Service Examina-

tion, April and October, 1883.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
6th April, 1882.

THE following are the Latin and Greek subjects
for the April and October examinations, 1883 :—

LATIN.—Horace, Odes, Books I. and II.; Sallust,
Catiline.

GREEK.—Xenophon, Cyropædia, Books I. and II.

N.B.—Candidates who take up Latin will have to
pass in both verse and prose author.

By order.

C. C. N. BARRON,
Secretary.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease 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 a lease of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicant specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions 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 Havelock on or
before the 8th day of May, 1882.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: James Byrne. Style under which it is
intended to conduct the business: "Royal Standard
Gold-Mining and Quartz-Crushing Company." 16
acres 2 roods, at Dead Horse, Wakamarina, in the
Wairau and Pelorus Mining District.