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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

Officiating Ministers for 1884.—Notice No. 14.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Baptists.

The Reverend David Whytock.
The Reverend William Edmund Rice.

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

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1884.

PATENT for Improvement in an Apparatus for generating Steam.

FRANCIS HENRY ASBURY, of Dunedin, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 2nd day of October 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 17th 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1162.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1884.

PATENT for an Improved Machine convertible into a Wire-strainer or Auger.

WILLIAM CREED, of Warmatta, near Corowa, in the Colony of New South Wales, Surveyor, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 2nd day of October 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 17th 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1161.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1884.

PATENT for a Chair or Rail-fastening, combined with iron-pot sleepers and connecting-gauge rods, and a modification of the said chair for use with wooden sleepers, and called “Rainbow’s Improved Combination Chair and Rail Gauge.”

WILLIAM RAINBOW, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 7th day of October 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 22nd 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1164.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1884.

PATENT for Improved Castors for the Legs of Chairs, Tables, or other Furniture, or for the support of any other object which it may be desirable to move.

WILLIAM RAINBOW, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 7th day of October 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 22nd 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1163.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st July, 1884.

PATENT for an Improvement in Nails for Roofing Purposes, by the combination of the nail and washer in one piece, so prepared as to be incorrodible, and called the “Acme” and the “Mushroom-headed” Nail, respectively.

JOHN SINCLAIR, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 7th day of October 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 22nd 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1165.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1884.

PATENT for Improvements in the Construction of Composite Walls.

ALFRED ATKINS and FREDERICK DE JERSEY CLERE, both of Whanganui, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 7th day of October 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 22nd 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 1166.

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.

Native Land Court Notices.

Native Land Court.—Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
GISBORNE DISTRICT.

IN the matter of a judgment of the Court given at Waipaoa, in the said district, on the 21st day of March, 1884, upon the hearing of a claim to succeed to the interest of Te Paraone Hakihaki in a piece of land in the said district, and known as “Rowitu;” and in the matter of the application of Erihapeti te Kaitoritori for a rehearing upon such claim:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, and in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby dismiss such application.

Dated this 3rd day of July, 1884.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.