May 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 799

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1884.

PATENT for “The Eureka Beer-receiver.”

ARTHUR STEELE FORD, of Coromandel, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 21st day of August 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 6th day of August 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. 1111.

Application for a Patent

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for saving Life and Property from Fire, to be named “Smith’s Life- and Property-saving Apparatus.”

HARRY JAMES SMITH, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Painter, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 21st day of August 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 6th day of August 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. 1112.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1884.

PATENT for an Invention for Flanged Lead-headed Roofing Nails.

ROBERT MCDONALD SHORT and THOMAS PEARCE, both of Dunedin, New Zealand, Plumbers, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 21st day of August 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 6th day of August 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. 1113.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1884.

PATENT for an Improved Archimedian Drill-stock, to be known as “Richardson’s Improved Archimedian Drill-stock.”

WILLIAM ERNEST RICHARDSON, of Outram, Otago, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 26th day of August 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 August 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. 1114.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Crown Lands, West Coast (North Island) Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Patea, 8th February, 1884.

NOTICE.—Section No. 2, Block VIII., Wairoa Survey District, having been excluded from sale pending the survey of a road, and the said road now having been taken through it, it is hereby notified that the section at the reduced area (103 acres 1 rood 12 perches) after excluding road is now released from such exclusion, and will be again offered at public auction.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Runs for Sale by Auction, Canterbury Land District.

Land Office, Christchurch, 31st March, 1884.

LIST of Runs to be submitted to auction, at the Land Office, Christchurch, on the 29th May, 1884, at 12 o’clock noon. The license for each run shall be for a term of about six years, terminating on the 1st March, 1890, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1877,” and its amendments. Purchasers will have to pay on the fall of the hammer fifteen months’ rent, to the 1st September, 1885.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale by Auction at Napier.

PASTORAL LAND FOR LEASE FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS, IN TERMS OF THE LAND ACT 1877 AMENDMENT ACTS, 1879 AND 1882.

Crown Lands Office, Napier, 9th May, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that 11,600 acres of pastoral land in the Kaweka and Pohui Survey Districts will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Council Chamber, Napier, on Thursday, the 12th June, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

Upset rentals per annum: First seven years, £48 6s. 8d.; second seven years, £72 10s.; third seven years, £96 13s. 4d. Rent to the 31st August, 1885, to be paid in advance, and thereafter to be paid half-yearly in advance.

Plans and conditions can be seen at this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Description.—The area to be leased is situated about forty-seven miles from Napier, and is bounded by the properties of Messrs. Ford, Hallet, and Waterhouse. The lease lies below the winter snow-line, and includes the clear spurs and hills on the north-eastern slopes of the Kaweka Range. The lower spurs fronting the Mohaka River are capable by surface sowing of being made into good grazing country.

These lands have, until quite recently, been occupied under license from the Crown.