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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Colonial Industries.—Portland Cement.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1883.

WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up
to noon on 31st March, 1884, from persons who are
willing to contract for the supply and delivery of one hundred
tons of Portland Cement. The cement to be manufactured
in the Colony of New Zealand, and to be delivered at any of
the under-mentioned places, viz., Auckland, Wellington,
Christchurch, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, or Inver-
cargill. Tenders to be addressed to the Minister for Public
Works, and to be marked outside "Tender for Supply of 100
tons of Portland Cement." Specifications and conditions
may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Welling-
ton, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill. The lowest or
any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

E. MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to au-
thorize

The Deputy Registrar-General

to frank and receive, free from the prepayment of postage,
letters and parcels on the public service.

R. OLIVER,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

Mr. Frederick W. Frankland, Acting Registrar of
Friendly Societies,

to frank, free from the prepayment of postage, letters
and parcels on the public service.

R. OLIVER,
Postmaster-General.

Delegation of Powers of Judge in Bankruptcy to Registrar
of the Supreme Court.

WHEREAS by section 24 of "The Bankruptcy Act,
1883," it is enacted that a Registrar shall sit at
Chambers for despatch of such part of the business of the
Court as he is authorized to carry out either by the provisions
of the Act, or by delegation of the Judge, or by any general
rules, and subject thereto as a Judge of the Court from time
directs, and while so sitting shall have the same power and
jurisdiction as a Judge of the Court at Chambers would have,
and an order made by him shall be an order of the Court:
Now I, Alexander James Johnston, a Judge in Bankruptcy,
do hereby delegate to Andrew Roby Bloxam, Registrar at
Christchurch of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the
power to appoint the days for the examination of bankrupts
under subsection 1, section 149, of "The Bankruptcy Act,
1883."

Dated this 23rd day of January, 1884.

ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON.

Delegation of Powers of Judge in Bankruptcy to Registrar
of the Supreme Court.

WHEREAS by section 24 of "The Bankruptcy Act,
1883," it is enacted that a Registrar shall sit at
Chambers for despatch of such part of the business of the
Court as he is authorized to carry out either by the provisions
of the Act, or by delegation of the Judge, or by any general
rules, and subject thereto as a Judge of the Court from time
to time directs, and while so sitting shall have the same
power and jurisdiction as a Judge of the Court at Chambers
would have, and an order made by him shall be an order of
the Court: Now I, Alexander James Johnston, a Judge in
Bankruptcy, do hereby delegate to Andrew Roby Bloxam,
Registrar at Christchurch of the Supreme Court of New
Zealand, the power to adjudicate any debtor a bankrupt on
the presentation of a debtor's petition under subsection 2,
section 44, of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1883."

Dated this 10th day of January, 1884.

ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON.

Delegation of Powers of Judge in Bankruptcy to Registrar
of the Supreme Court.

IN exercise of the power in me in this behalf vested by
"The Bankruptcy Act, 1883," I hereby direct that
Henry Clayton Brewer, Esq., Registrar of the Supreme
Court for the Northern Judicial District, shall sit at Cham-
bers, at all convenient times during office hours, for the pur-
pose of granting orders of adjudication in bankruptcy upon
the petition of the debtor.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this eighteenth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-four.

THOMAS B. GILLIES,
Judge.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1884.

PATENT for an Improved Method of extracting Gold and
Silver from certain of their Ores, and utilizing some
of the other Products of the Process.

Stephen Osborne, Mining Engineer, and Andrew Thomas,
Analytical Chemist, both of Adelaide, South Australia, have
deposited at this office a specification of the said invention ;
and I have appointed Thursday, the 22nd day of May 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 7th day of May
next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objec-
tions to the said application, otherwise they will be pre-
cluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1004.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for lifting Hay, to be called
"Twin Horse Hay-forks."

William McLaughlin, of Puhinui, New Zealand, Engi-
neer, and William Dunwoody, of Onehunga, New Zealand,
Engineer, have deposited at this office a specification of the
said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 5th
day of June 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 21st
day of May 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. 1005.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1884.

PATENT for a Machine for pressing the Tops into Meat
Tins or other tins.

Marmaduke Clarke, of Tomaona, Hawke's Bay, New
Zealand, Manager of Works, has deposited at this office a
specification of the said invention; and I have appointed
Thursday, the 5th day of June 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 21st day of May next, at this office, particulars
in writing of their objections to the said application, other-
wise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1006.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 29th January, 1884.

THE Tai Tapu Lodge, situated at Tai Tapu, is registered
as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
of New Zealand Friendly Society, under "The Friendly
Societies Act, 1882," this 29th day of January, 1884.

F. W. FRANKLAND,
the Registrar of Friendly Societies.)