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and lead through the worst part of the entrance channel, that is, from abreast the Perch Buoy to a cable’s length above the lightship. Their line will give, between the points named, from 30 feet to 33 feet at low water. They are not intended to be used for any other part of the harbour or entrance.

ROBERT STOUT.

Authority to frank.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

Mr. CHARLES CALLIS

to frank, free from the prepayment of postage, letters, telegrams, and parcels on subjects relating to the Colonial Exhibition, to be held at Wellington in 1885.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

Mr. JOHN ROCHFORT,

Surveyor on North Island Main Trunk Railway, to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1884.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

WAITAKI-BLUFF (WITH BRANCHES) RAILWAY.—CATLIN’S RIVER BRANCH.—PUERUA FORMATION, BRIDGE, PERMANENT-WAY, AND STATION CONTRACT.

Accepted.

Alexander Watson and Co., Oamaru .. 7,303 1 9

Declined.

John Whitaker, Dunedin .. .. 7,463 7 2
Findlay and Co., Dunedin .. .. 8,828 13 11
John Walker, Invercargill .. .. 9,401 18 6
George Mackie, Balclutha .. .. 9,454 1 6
Menzies and Bersh, Invercargill .. .. 9,516 9 0

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Hoani Meke and Kingita Ngahoro, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Anaru Kune, as Trustee under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said lands may be leased by the said Trustee for a term of twenty-one years from the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

Dated at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, containing by admeasurement 26,300 acres, more or less, being called or known by the name of the Purahotangihia Block, on the plan deposited in the Survey Office at Napier. Bounded on the North and North-east by the Maungaharuru Block, the Waikoau Stream, and the Arapawanui and Tongoio Blocks; on the South by Morris Block, and the Petane and the Pakuratahi Blocks; and on the West by the Waichinganga or Esk River: excepting and reserving thereout as a reserve for the lessors all that parcel of land, portion of the said block, containing by estimation 400 acres, and contained in a straight line drawn from the north-east portion of the Pakuratahi Block, at a gate in the track between the lands hereby demised and the Pakuratahi Block, and thence running northerly till it meets the creek, running at right angles from the waterfall in the creek forming the boundary between the lands hereby demised and the Tongoio Block.

Public Notice under “The Property Assessment Act, 1879,” Section 76.

Property-Tax Department,
Wellington, 27th November, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that property-tax under “The Property Tax Act, 1884,” for the year commencing on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, will be payable as follows:—

(1.) In respect of the duty of three-eighths of a penny, where the amount of such duty shall be under two hundred and fifty pounds, the same shall be paid on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four:

And where such duty amounts to two hundred and fifty pounds, or exceeds that sum, the same shall be paid in two equal instalments, the first of such instalments being payable on the said twenty-second day of December, and the second of such instalments on the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

(2.) In respect of the duty on fire, marine, or guarantee policies issued by any insurance company, the same shall be paid on the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

And notice is hereby further given that the places in each district where the said tax shall be paid shall be any post office within such district which is also a money-order office, except in the district of Wellington, in which district the tax shall be paid at any such post office as aforesaid, and at the office of the Property-Tax Commissioner, at the Government Buildings, Wellington.

J. SPERREY,
Property-Tax Commissioner.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for transforming Nightsoil into a Manure, to be called “Queenin’s Patent Nightsoil Manure.”

WILLIAM QUEENIN, of Parnell, near Auckland, New Zealand, Settler, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 24th day of February 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 February 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. 1309.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1884.

PATENT for a Fencing Brace or Suspender.

EDWARD SAMUEL LEES, of Oamaru, New Zealand, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 26th day of February 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 11th day of February 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. 1310.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1884.

PATENT for Improvements in Brickmaking Machines (being a communication from GEORGE EDWIN RICHARDSON, of Adelaide, in the Province of South Australia).

ROBERT TULLOCH DOBBIE, temporarily residing at Collins Street West, Melbourne, Victoria, Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 26th day of February