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Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

The ASSISTANT ENGINEER, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,
WELLINGTON,

to frank letters, parcels, and telegrams on the public service.

R. OLIVER,
Postmaster-General.

Designation of Post Office changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1884.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the designation of the Post Office in the Auckland Postal District known as Te Wharau will, from the 1st instant, be changed to

OPOUA.

By order of the Postmaster-General.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1884.—Notice No. 8.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th March, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Church of Christ.

The Reverend George Aldridge.

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

Notification of Vacancy of Seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Thorndon.

IN compliance with the provisions of the 61st section of “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1881,” I hereby notify that

WILLIAM HORT LEVIN, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Thorndon, and that his letter of resignation was received by me on the 24th day of March, 1884, and that the said seat is vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Auckland, the 2nd day of April, 1884.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE, Kt.,
Speaker.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for generating Steam, to be called “Corrick’s Inextubular Boiler.”

HENRY CORRICK, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Bootmaker, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 17th day of July 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 2nd day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1059.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1884.

PATENT for Opal Enamel.

ANDREW GOUDIE COSSGROVE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Photographer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 17th day of July 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 2nd day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1061.

Civil Service Literary Prize, 1883.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 31st March, 1884.

THREE essays on “Pauperism, and the Duty of the State in regard thereto in the Colonies,” were received under the signatures “Pakeha Maori,” “Mamillius,” and “Humanitate.”

None of these essays appeared to the Examiners to be deserving of a prize.

The Board, therefore, having determined not to award a prize, destroyed the envelopes containing the names of the writers without opening them.

By order.

C. C. N. BARRON,
Secretary.

Latin and Greek Authors for Civil Service Examination, April and October, 1885.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 31st March, 1884.

THE following are the Latin and Greek authors for the April and October examinations, 1885:—

LATIN.—Horace, Odes, Book III., and Ars Poetica; Sallust, Jugurtha.

GREEK.—Homer, Iliad, Book I.; Xenophon, Anabasis, Book I.

N.B.—Candidates who take up either of these languages will have to pass in both verse and prose author.

By order.

C. C. N. BARRON,
Secretary.

Notice of Sittings of Court of Bankruptcy, Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Court for the examination of bankrupts, and for hearing applications for discharge, will be held at the Supreme Court Buildings, Wellington, every Monday, at half-past 10 o’clock in the forenoon.

By order.

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar.

Wellington, 28th March, 1884.

Government Life Insurance Office opened.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 1st April, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that the post office at the under-mentioned place has been opened as a Government Life Insurance Office:—

STAFFORD, County of Westland.

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Leases and Special Claims cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 1st April, 1884.

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

GOLD-MINING LEASES.

William Beilby, Certainty Gold-Mining Company; Section 29, Block VII., 16 acres 2 roods 8 perches, District of Reefton. No. 1214.

Patrick Quirk Caples, Long Tunnel Quartz-Mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches, Section 26, Block VII., Reefton District. No. 1218.

Patrick Quirk Caples, Coming Wonder Gold-Mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches, Section 23, Block VII., Reefton District. No. 1216.

Patrick Quirk Caples, Invincible Quartz-Mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches, Section 24, Block VII., Reefton District. No. 1215.

Patrick Quirk Caples, Tasmanian Quartz-Mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches, Section 25, Block VII., Reefton District. No. 1217.

George Wise, Dreadnought Gold-Mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods 2 perches, Section 22, Block VII., Reefton District. No. 1220.

George Wise, Albion Quartz-Mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods, Section 28, Block VII., Reefton District. No. 1221.

John Dawson, Sussex Gold-Mining Company; 16 acres 1 rood 17 perches, Section 30, Block VII., Reefton District. No. 1222.