JULY 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1043

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1884.

PATENT for Improvements in obtaining and employing Motive-power.

JAMES ROBSON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 16th day of September 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 1st day of September 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. 1148.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1884.

PATENT for Automatic Self-regulating Feed for Mill.

WILLIAM ANDREWS and ARTHUR WARD BEAVEN, both of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineers, carrying on business in copartnership under the name of “Andrews and Beaven,” have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 4th day of September 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 20th 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. 928.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1884.

PATENT for Bawden’s Triumph Pulverizer and Amalgamator.

SAMUEL BAWDEN, of Grahamstown, Auckland, New Zealand, Mining Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 23rd day of September 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 8th day of September 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. 1150.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 18th June, 1884.

THE Hope of Johnsonville Tent, No. 46, situated at Johnsonville, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand Central District of the Independent Order of Rechabites, Salford Unity, Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 18th day of June, 1884.

F. W. FRANKLAND,
Acting Registrar.

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.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th June, 1884.

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

Panama Gold-Mining Company (Limited); Section 2, Block X., Mount Arthur Survey District, 15 acres 3 roods 33 perches. No. 976.

Robert Codrington and others; Section 4, Block X., Mount Arthur Survey District, 15 acres 1 rood 25 perches. No. 1000.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th June, 1884.

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

John Emmett Warner; Section 5, Block XIV., Waiwhero Survey District, 10 acres and 23 perches. No. 1190.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1884.

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

Michael Sammon; 5 acres 1 rood 15 perches, Section 8, Block VII., Lauder District, Otago Mining District. No. 553c.

R. OLIVER,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of “The Mines Act, 1877,” and with the regulations made under that Act for the granting of leases for gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicants specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Ross on or before the 30th day of August, 1884.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Warden’s Office at Ross.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: John Gagliardi and another. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: “Golden Crown Quartz-Mining Company.” 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches, at Cedar Creek, in the Totara Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

J. GILES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Native Land Court Notices.

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

I, JOHN EDWIN MACDONALD, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby, in compliance with the duty imposed upon me by “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883,” give notice that on the 17th day of June, 1884, the title to the lands mentioned in the Schedule herein became, within the meaning of the said Act, ascertained; and, further, that dealings with the said lands will cease to be prohibited by the provisions of the said Act on the 27th day of July, 1884.

SCHEDULE.

NAME by which land is known: Tokomaru No. 1, Tokomaru No. 2, Tokomaru No. 3, Tokomaru No. 4. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Poverty Bay. Area: 3,457 acres.

Dated this 17th day of June, 1884.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.