Oct. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1497

deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st day of December 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. 1263.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th October, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for Self-adjustable Stops on Wire Strainers.

WILLIAM WELLS and GEORGE WILLIAM STURGESS, both of Sydenham, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineers, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st day of December 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. 1264.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th October, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for washing Clothes, &c., to be called “Smith’s Lightning Washer.”

ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, of Riccarton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st day of December 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. 1265.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1884.

PATENT for an Improved Union-spring Stretcher, for Bedsteads, &c.

WILLIAM JAMES DALTON, of Auckland, New Zealand, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st day of December 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. 1266.

Te Makarini Scholarships.

TWO Scholarships of the yearly value of £35 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 15th 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 institu-
tions, 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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of License of Run, Amuri.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 20th October, 1884.

THE license for the term of ten years, from the 1st day of March, 1885, for the under-mentioned run will be offered for sale by auction, on Thursday, the 20th day of November, 1884, at the Courthouse, Waiau, at 12 o’clock noon:—

License No. 112, Marion District. Estimated area, 15,500 acres, situate on the banks of the Upper Hope River to Tutikuri Saddle; about 1,500 acres open grass flats, remainder principally bush. Altitude, 2,000 to 6,000 feet. Upset annual rental, £65.

The license will be sold subject to the general provisions as to runs specified in “The Land Act, 1877,” and “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879.”

The first year’s rent, with the license fee, £2 2s., shall be paid on the fall of the hammer, and thereafter the rent shall be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st day of March and on the 1st day of September in each year.

Plan and further particulars can be seen at this office, and at the Courthouse, Waiau.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Sale, Woodville and Tahoraiti Survey Districts.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 16th October, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands referred to in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Council Chamber, Napier, on Monday, the 17th November next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon. Further particulars can be ascertained on application at this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

FOR SALE FOR CASH.

FOR SALE ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

Woodville Survey District.

| IX. | 5 | 152 3 0 | 152 15 0 |
| Bush Mills }| 20 | 88 0 0 | 88 0 0 |
| Settlement.|

Norsewood Survey District.

| III. | 7 | 47 2 0 | 59 7 6 |
| | 16 | 74 1 0 | 111 7 6 |