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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 15th 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. 1418.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1885.

PATENT for a new Omnibus, to be called “The Excelsior Omnibus.”

CHARLES ATKIN, of Auckland, New Zealand, Coachbuilder, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 2nd day of July 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 17th 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. 1419.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1885.

PATENT for a Combined Collar Stud and Necktie Holder.

JAMES YATE JOHNSON, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 2nd day of July 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 17th 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. 1420.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for Fuel prepared from Coal, to be known as “Thompson’s Patent Fuel.”

JOHN THOMAS THOMPSON, of Gisborne, New Zealand, Carpenter, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 2nd day of July 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 17th 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. 1421.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1885.

PATENT for an Improvement in Reaping Machines.

JAMES KEIR, of Ashburton, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 2nd day of July 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 17th 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. 1422.

Standing Orders on Local Bills.

THE following amended Standing Orders of the Houses of the General Assembly relative to Local Bills are published for general information.

F. E. CAMPBELL,
Clerk of Parliaments.

18th March, 1885.

349. Local Bills are those which, not being Private Bills, affect particular localities only.

350. No Local Bill shall be read a second time unless notice shall have been given of the said Bill in the locality to which the Bill refers; such notice shall state explicitly the object which such Bill is intended to effect, and shall have been published once at least in each of three successive weeks before the second reading in a newspaper circulating in such locality.

351. At the time of the first publication of such notice, a copy of the Bill shall be deposited in the Resident Magistrate’s Court of the district, and shall be open to public inspection; and such Bill shall, at the expiration of the prescribed period for advertising, be forwarded to the Clerk of the House in which the Bill is to be introduced, indorsed with a certificate from the Resident Magistrate, or Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, that such Bill was so deposited, and remained open for public inspection for the prescribed time.*

352. When it is intended in such Bill to take power to deal with any lands, plans or surveys of such lands, on a scale of not less than two inches to a mile, and certified by an authorized surveyor, shall be deposited with the Bill.

353. In the case of Bills authorizing the construction of harbour works, or the raising of further loans for the completion of harbour works previously authorized, such Bill shall be accompanied by a statement of the financial position of the promoters, an estimate of the cost of construction, and the estimated increased revenue to be derived from the proposed works, together with the plans or surveys before mentioned.

354. Before the Bill is introduced into the Legislative Council or House of Representatives, the before-mentioned plans or surveys and estimates shall be forwarded to the office of the Clerk of the House in which the Bill is to be initiated.

*Amendment shown in italics.

New Zealand Postal Telegraphs.—Repoling of Telegraph Line between Greymouth and Kumara.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1885.

TENDERS are invited for the supply and delivery of 850 poles, more or less, for the line of telegraph between Greymouth and Kumara. Tenders addressed to the Superintendent, New Zealand Postal Telegraphs, Wellington, will be receivable up to noon of the 11th day of May, 1885.

Specifications, general conditions, and all other information relative to the above can be obtained at the Telegraph Offices, Greymouth, Hokitika, Kumara, and at the General Post Office, Wellington. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

By order of the Commissioner of Telegraphs.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent, New Zealand Postal Telegraphs.

Native Land Court Notices.

Application for Rehearing of Claim granted.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND :
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given at Wai-pawa, in the said district, on the 26th day of October, 1883, upon the hearing of a claim to succeed to the interest of Kerei Tanguru in a block of land in the said district known as “Te Wi;” and in the matter of an application made to this Court in writing, within three months after such decision was given, by a Native named Manahi Paewai, thinking himself aggrieved thereby, for a rehearing upon the aforesaid claim :

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby order that a rehearing upon such claim be had on the 19th day of May next, at a sitting of the Court to be then held at Hastings, in the District of Gisborne.

Dated this 7th day of April, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

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 14th day of April, 1885, the title to the land mentioned in the Schedule herein became, within the meaning of the said Act, ascertained; and, further, that dealings with the said land will cease to be prohibited by the provisions of the said Act on the 24th day of May, 1885.