APRIL 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 635

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1882.
PATENT for an Invention for Cutting Wooden
Wire-Fencing Rollers out of the Rough Blocks.
ROBERT PEARCE GIBBONS, of Taupiri, Auckland,
New Zealand, Mechanist, has deposited at this office
a specification of the said invention; and I have
appointed Friday, the 21st 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 17th 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.

No. 637. W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1882.
PATENT for an Invention for Propelling Shallow-
draft River Steamers.
ROBERT PEARCE GIBBONS, of Taupiri, Auckland,
New Zealand, Mechanist, has deposited at this office
a specification of the said invention; and I have
appointed Friday, the 21st 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 17th 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.

No. 600. W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1882.
PATENT for the Automatical Movement of Gates
and Doors on Rollers (under the title of Fraser's
Patent Rail and Roller).
ALEXANDER FRASER, of Christchurch, in the Pro-
vincial District of Canterbury, has deposited at this
office a specification of the said invention; and I
have appointed Friday, the 28th 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 24th day of July next, at this office, par-
ticulars in writing of their objections to the said
application, otherwise they will be precluded from
urging the same.

No. 636. W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Amuri Runs.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 15th April, 1882.
THE following Licenses for Runs for the term of
ten years, from the 1st March, 1883, will be
offered by auction, at the Land Office, Nelson, on
Wednesday, the 31st May next, at 11 o'clock a.m.,
viz. :-

No. of License. Estimated
District.
Upset
Area.
Annual
Rental.
Acres.
£ s. d.
71 10,200 Percival and Lyndon ... 85 0 0
75 8,600 Skiddaw 53 15 0
76 12,400 ... 77 10 0
86, 96, and 97 22,775 Clarence and Alma 189 15 10
92 6,100 Marion 25 8 4
93 12,512 Percival and Lyndon ... 104 5 4
95 17,000 Tekoa 106 5 0
98 6,500 Alma 54 3 4
99 and 106 10,218 Maling 85 3 0
99A and 107 20,770 Maling and Dillon 173 1 8
99B 4,800 Tekoa 20 0 0
105 5,012 Dillon 20 17 8
108 8,065 Percival 50 8 1
110 and 111 9,850 Skiddaw and Mytholm 61 11 3
112 15,500 Marion 64 11 8

License No. 71, Percival and Lyndon Districts.—
Situate principally on the southern slopes of Mount
Percival; slopes covered with tussocks and scrub;
about 2,000 acres bare top of range; altitude, 2,000
to 5,000 feet; estimated area, 10,200 acres.
License No. 75, Skiddaw District.—Tussock slopes
and snow-grass on hills; about 300 acres flat; bush
and scrub about 1,400 acres; altitude, 1,700 to 6,000
feet; estimated area, 8,600 acres.
License No. 76, Skiddaw District.—About 4,000
acres bush and scrub, remainder good tussock slopes
and terraces; about 650 acres level; altitude, 1,600
feet to 6,000 feet; estimated area, 12,400 acres.
Licenses Nos. 86, 96, and 97, Clarence, Alma,
and Leaderdale Districts.—No. 86: Rounded smooth
hills, covered with tussock-grass; altitude, 3,000 to
4,000 feet; estimated area, 7,375 acres. No. 96:
High rocky ranges, with rough tussock-grass; slopes
to Clarence and Alma; altitude, 3,500 to 5,000 feet;
estimated area, 10,600 acres. No. 97: Head of
Leaderdale Valley, north side, with upper slopes to
branches of the Alma; open hill-sides; tussock-grass;
altitude, 2,500 to 4,000 feet; estimated area, 4,800
acres. Total estimated area, 22,775 acres.
License No. 92, Marion District.—North bank of
the Hope River; about 1,000 acres open country;
good tussock-grass on flats; about 5,000 acres bush;
altitude, from 1,600 to 3,000 feet; estimated area,
6,100 acres.
License No. 93, Percival and Lyndon District.—
Jack's Pass; the western part consists of burnt-bush
gullies and spurs in Chatterton Valley, remainder
open spurs; about 8,000 acres available all the year
round; tussock-grass and scrub; altitude, 1,300 to
4,300 feet; estimated area 12,512 acres.
License No. 95, Tekoa District.—North and east
of Upper Waiau River; terrace and river flats about
1,500 acres, about 3,000 acres bush, and about 5,000
acres available all the year round, remainder good
for about seven months of the year; tussock on flats
and spurs; hills rough, poor feed, with burnt forest
and scrub; available to drays; improving country;
altitude, 1,800 to 5,000 feet; estimated area, 17,000
acres.
License No. 98, Alma District.—Between the
Acheron and Alma Rivers, northern slopes; princi-
pally high range; about 2,500 to 3,000 acres not
available as winter country; tussock-grass on slopes,
top of range bare; accessible by dray from Alma
Valley; altitude, 3,200 to 6,200 feet; estimated area,
6,500 acres.
Licenses Nos. 99 and 106, Maling District.—Situate
at head of Stanley Valley Stream and south end of
Lake Tennyson; rough rocky spurs, with tussock-
grass; portion only available as winter country; ac-
cessible to Clarence Valley; altitude, 2,700 to 5,000
feet; estimated area, 10,218 acres.