Oct. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1335

aining by admeasurement 6 acres and 22 perches, more or less; and bounded towards the North-west by the Waihou Matawera Track at a bearing of 54° 58', distance 400 links, and 39° 58', distance 250 links; towards the North-east by a right line bearing 121° 10', distance 930 links, to the Whakarapa Creek; towards the South-east by right lines skirting said creek, bearing 204° 46', 442 links, and 251° 7', distance 2284 links; and towards the South-west by a right line crossing Tekiteki Stream to the Waihou Matawera Track before mentioned, bearing 301° 10', distance 1035 links; above bearings being on magnetic meridian: be all the above distances more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan in the Survey Office, Auckland.

Given under my hand at Hokianga, this 14th day of September, 1882.

SPENCER VON STÜRMER,
Resident Magistrate.

Interpreter licensed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 30th September, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to license

RICHARD THOMAS BLAKE, Esq.,
of Whanganui, to act as an Interpreter under “The Native Land Court Act, 1880.”

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Native Minister.)

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1882.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be opened at

PAEROA (Chief Office, Thames),
from and after the 16th proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1882.

PATENT for Improvements in Apparatus for the Extraction of Gold, and the Concentration of Gold-bearing Material such as Pyrites, from finely-divided Auriferous Material.

JOHN ALVES, of Dunedin, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Friday, the 15th day of December 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 30th day of November 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.

No. 702.

Officiating Ministers for 1882.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 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 William Eugene Gillam.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

[It has been notified to the Registrar-General that the Rev. Mr. Gillam has withdrawn from the Wesleyan Methodist Society, in connection with which he has been hitherto an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.]

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1882.

THE Court Pride of Richmond, No. 6584, of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, situated at Richmond, is registered as a branch of the Canterbury United District of the New Zealand Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 28th day of September, 1882.

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

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1882.

THE Loyal Victoria Lodge, No. 19, situated at Geraldine, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 28th day of September, 1882.

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

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1882.

THE Court Heretaunga, No. 6553, situated at Hastings, is registered as a branch of the Hawke’s Bay District of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 28th day of September, 1882.

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

Branches of Specially-authorized Society registered.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1882.

THE under-mentioned Lodges are registered as branches of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand of the Independent Order of Good Templars, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 29th day of September, 1882:—

Name of Lodge. No. Where situated.
The Lily of the Valley ... 142 ... North Dunedin.
The Hope of Gore ... 196 ... Gore.
The Bushman’s Pride ... 238 ... Alford Forest.
The Hope of Wakefield ... 239 ... Wakefield.

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

Branches of Friendly Society registered:

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1882.

THE under-mentioned Lodges are registered as branches of the Hawke’s Bay District of the