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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 19th day of November next, at 12 o'clock noon, 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 29th day of October next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1210.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 5th September, 1884.

PATENT for a Trap for taking Rabbits or other Animals. RICHARD JONES, of Forth Place, Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of November 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 3rd 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.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1211.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for the saving of Gas, and increasing its Illuminating Power.

HERBERT GABY, of Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of November 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 3rd 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.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1212.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th September, 1884.

PATENT for Improved Flock-dressing Machine.

EPHRAIM ELLIS, of Kaikorai, Otago, New Zealand, Flock-dresser, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of November next, at 12 o'clock noon, 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 3rd 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.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1213.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th September, 1884.

PATENT for an Improved Range-Boiler Tap, absolutely water-tight under any pressure; applicable also to brewers’ vats and barrels, or to any other vessel where heavy pressure ordinarily causes leakage; to steam water-gauges for locomotive and other boilers, working with two or more taps on one and the same principle; and to gas meters.

WILLIAM RAINBOW, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of November next, at 12 o'clock noon, 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 3rd 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.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1214.

Officiating Ministers for 1884.—Notice No. 20.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th September, 1884.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend John Taylor, D.D.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend James McKellar.

The Reverend David McNeill.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Te Makarini Scholarships.

TWO Scholarships of the yearly value of £85 each, to be held at the Native College, Te Aute, Hawke’s Bay, are offered for competition to Maori youths, on the conditions laid down in the Regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1884, except that the laws of health will not be one of the subjects of examination. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 16th and 16th of December, 1884.

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

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 15th August, 1884.

Tenders for Purchase of Steam-engine and Rock-drill.

WRITTEN tenders will be received up to the 31st December, 1884, for the purchase of a new portable steam-engine and diamond rock-drill, with bits 2 inches in diameter, 2,000 feet of rods, and all necessary gearing for working the same, to bore at any angle. Lately imported from America, at the cost of £2,160.

For further particulars apply to the Chairman of the Inangahua County Council, Reefton.

The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

PATRICK BRENNAN,
Chairman, Inangahua County Council.

Reefton, 29th May, 1884.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 9th September, 1884.

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

John Marietta and David Stephenson; 16 acres 2 roods, Section 10, Block X., Ngakawau District. No. 1343.

William Campbell, for the Nui Pai Gold-Mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods, Section 9, Block X., Ngakawau District. No. 1344.

In the Nelson South-West Gold Fields.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Mines.)