APRIL 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 437

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1885.

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

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

WAIKATO-THAMES RAILWAY.—TE AROHA CONTRACT.—PART FORMATION AND PERMANENT-WAY.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
John Livingston, Hamilton .. .. 7,373 17 0

Declined.
A. and D. Wilkie and J. Wilson, Wanganui.. 7,878 12 9
Larkins and O’Brien, Auckland .. .. 8,041 10 6
William Foughey, Auckland .. .. 8,418 15 7
Mullinger and Brett, Auckland .. .. 9,596 0 0
Hunt, White, and Lovett, Auckland .. 9,973 15 0
Daniel Fallon, Auckland .. .. 10,336 3 0
J. J. O’Brien, Auckland .. .. 10,950 0 0
Joseph Punch, Auckland .. .. 11,918 5 10
Robert Martin, Auckland .. .. 12,561 6 8

Officiating Ministers for 1885.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1885.

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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Alfred Herbert Boucher, M.A.

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.

The Reverend Samuel Wilson Currie.

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend Thomas Taylor, B.A.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Will accepted by Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1885.

In the matter of the will of Andrew Cunningham, of Napier, deceased.

IT is hereby notified that the above will has been finally accepted, in accordance with the provisions of “The Public Trust Office Act, 1872,” and that probate of the said will has been granted to the Public Trustee, the Executor appointed under the said will.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1885.

PATENT for an Improvement in Reapers and Binders, to be known as “Howard’s Patent Reaper and Binder Anti-capsizer.”

JOHN GOLDING HOWARD, of Bedford, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 25th day of June 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 10th day of June 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. 1412.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1885.

PATENT for a Machine for making Barbed Wire, to be known as “Noble’s Patent.”

ROBERT STANSELL, of Timaru, New Zealand, Barbed Wire Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 25th day of June 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