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14. No miner shall use or allow to be used any
    gunpowder, except in conformity with General
    Rule 2.

15. In addition to the examination by the under-
    viewer, or other officer, each work-person must
    examine his working-place before commencing work,
    and from time to time during his shift, and withdraw
    in case of danger.

16. Any person discovering any stoppage or de-
    rangement of the ventilation, injury to air-crossings,
    doors, stoppings, brattices, or air-pipes, or observing
    any obstruction in an air-course, a weakness in the
    roof, or deficiency of timber, or accumulation of gas
    or water, shall immediately give notice to the men
    and boys in that part of the mine, and to the Manager
    or underviewer.

17. Any person passing through a door must in-
    stantly close it; and no person shall injure a door or
    leave it open, break down or interfere with a stopping
    or a brattice, obstruct or damage an air-course, air-
    crossing, or air-pipe, or remove a caution-board or
    danger-signal, or do anything to interfere with the
    proper working of the mine, without an order from
    the Manager. No door must be propped or fastened
    back whilst on its hinges. All doors must be kept in
    good repair, and hung so that they will fall-to of
    themselves.

18. No person shall leave any light or any gun-
    powder in any part of the mine when leaving his
    work.

19. Shots must be rammed with soft material not
    likely to strike fire, and no person shall fire shots
    without authority from the Manager.

20. When a shot has missed fire it shall not be
    unrammed, but shall be reported to the Manager,
    and the place shall not be approached without the
    permission of the Manager.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1882.

PATENT for a Driving Apparatus.
JOB OSBORNE, of Doyleston, in the County of
Selwyn, Farmer, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of the said invention; and I have appointed
Friday, the 22nd day of September next, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said appli-
cation 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
18th day of September next, at this office, particu-
lars in writing of their objections to the said applica-
tion, otherwise they will be precluded from urging
the same.

No. 670. W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Friendly Society registered.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1882.

THE Campbell Lodge, No. 128, of the United
Ancient Order of Druids Society, situated at
Christchurch, is registered as a friendly society,
under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877," this 7th
day of July, 1882.

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

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.
NOTICE.-His Honor Joshua Strange Williams,
Judge at Dunedin of the Supreme Court of New
Zealand, has appointed ADAIR CRAIGIE, Esq.,
of Bombay, in India, Solicitor, to be a Commissioner
in India, under "The Commissioners of the Supreme
Court Act, 1875," for taking acknowledgments of
married women.

Dated this 30th day of June, 1882.

COLIN MCK. GORDON,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Dunedin.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.
NOTICE.—CHARLES CECIL READ, of Sydney, in
New South Wales, a Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of New South Wales, has been appointed this
day, by his Honor the Chief Justice, a Commissioner
of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in New
South Wales aforesaid, under "The Commissioners
of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose
of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits,
and affirmations as in the said Act mentioned.

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 6th July, 1882.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.
Mines Department,
Wellington, 11th July, 1882.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government has been
pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-
mining lease cancelled, and that the ground is now
open for application as if no lease of the said ground
had ever been applied for:—

Michael Roche; 5 acres, Section 7, Block VIII.,
District of Grey, Nelson South-West Gold Fields.
No. 961.

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
the grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before
the 14th day of August, 1882.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Gerald Perotti. Style under which it
is intended to conduct the business: "Enterprise
Gold-Mining Company." 16 acres 2 roods, west of
and adjoining the Oriental Company's ground, Devil's
Creek, Inangahua, in the Nelson South-West Mining
District.

Applicant: William Hindmarsh. Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "The
Bruce Gold-Mining Company (Limited)." 16 acres
2 roods, north of Bannockburn Company's applica-
tion, Keep-it-Dark District, Inangahua, in the Nel-
son South-West Mining District.

Applicant: William Hindmarsh. Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "The
Hustler's Gold-Mining Company (Limited)." 16
acres 2 roods, south of the Golden Gully Company,