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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 100

Money-Order and Savings-Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1883.
I T is hereby notified for general information that a Money-
Order and Savings-Bank Office will be opened at
RENWICKTOWN (Chief Office, Blenheim)
on the 1st proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1883.
PATENT for Bawden's Improved Turbine.
SAMUEL BAWDEN, of Grahamstown, in the Provincial
District of Auckland, and Colony of New Zealand, Assayer
and Mine Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification
of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the
24th day of January next, at 11 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 9th day of January next, at this office, particulars
in writing of their objections to the said application, other-
wise they will be precluded from urging the same.

No. 918.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Te Makarini Scholarships.
THREE Scholarships of the annual value of £35 each, to
be held at the Native College, Te Aute, Hawke's Bay,
are offered for competition to Maori or half-caste youths, on
the conditions laid down in the Regulations of the Trustees
of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund. The examination
will be held at convenient centres on the 17th and 18th of
December, 1883.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers,
send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education
Department, Wellington, of their intention to present them-
selves for examination. Such notice must be posted not
later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be ob-
tained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institu-
tions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary
to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 15th August, 1883.

Since the above notice was issued the Trustees have
offered an extra Junior Scholarship for competition at this
year's examination. There will therefore be two Senior and
two Junior Scholarships to be awarded.

21st September, 1883.
JAMES H. POPE

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale by Auction.

Land Office,
Christchurch, 11th August, 1883.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned block
of Crown land in the Kowai District will be offered
for sale by public auction, at the Courthouse, Amberley, on
Monday, the 12th November next, at 12 o'clock noon :—
Reserve No. 1639, Kowai Domain, containing 344 acres
Upset price, £3 per acre.
Plan may be seen at the Survey Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Waimate Plains and Opunake District, West Coast
Settlement Reserves.

SALE OF LEASES FOR A TERM OF THIRTY YEARS.
Compensation for Improvements up to £5 per Acre will be
allowed at End of Term of Lease.

West Coast Settlement Reserves Office,
Hawera, 4th September, 1883.
WRITTEN tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the
under-mentioned sections, in accordance with the
provisions of "The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act,
1881," and the regulations issued thereunder.
The tenders, accompanied by the statutory declaration and
deposit of six months' rent at the rate tendered, in accordance
with the regulations, must be lodged with the Reserves
Trustee, at the Courthouse, Hawera, not later than 4 o'clock
p.m., on Thursday, the 4th day of October, to be opened by
the Reserves Trustee, at Hawera, on Friday, the 5th day
of October, at 11 o'clock a.m., when the highest tenderer
for each lease (if the tenders shall equal or exceed the upset
fixed annual rental per acre) will be declared the lessee.

Plans and schedules of the sections, and copies of the
regulations under which leases will be sold and issued, also
forms of tender and declaration respectively, can be obtained
at the District Land Offices, New Plymouth, Patea, and
Hawera, or at any of the other land offices in the colony;
also at the Office of the Collector of Customs, Wanganui, and
at the Post Offices, Thames, Wanganui, Reefton, Westport,
Greymouth, Ashburton, and Oamaru, on and after the 31st
July instant.

SCHEDULE.

The above land, designated the Kapuni Block, is situated
near Okaiawa Township, and consists of open as well as
fairly level bush-country. It is well opened up with roads.
The soil is good and well watered.

The above land, designated the Kaupokonui Block, is
situated near Manaia Township on the one side and Otakeho
Township on the other. It is well opened up with roads.
The soil is of nearly similar quality to that of the Kapuni
Block above mentioned.