May 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 595

koutou aua reiti a te 9 o nga ra o Mei, 1885, i mua mai
ranei o taua ra, me utu e koutou aua moni reiti i te tari o te
poari o te takiwa i takoto ai aua whenua, tena te whakaatu-
ranga kei te Kupu Apiti.

KUPU APITI.

Te Ingoa o te Poari Takiwa. | Te Tari o te Poari Takiwa
| e utua ai nga Moni Reiti.

Rori Poata o Moa .. .. | Inglewood.
Rori Poata o Te Arai .. .. | Gisborne.
Rori Poata o Karioi .. .. | Ruapuke.

He mea tuhi nei toku ingoa i tenei te whitu o nga
ra o Mei, kotahi mano e waru rau e waru tekau
ma rima.

JULIUS VOGEL.

[TRANSLATION.]

"THE Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882," and
the Amendment thereof.

To each and every the owner or owners of land described
in the substituted valuation rolls of Native lands supplied
to the local bodies, the names of which are set forth in
the Schedule hereunder, under the provisions of the above
Acts and all other Acts affecting the same or relating
thereto.

WHEREAS demand having been made to me, the under-
signed Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of New Zealand, in
accordance with the provisions of "The Crown and Native
Lands Rating Act, 1882," by or on behalf of the said local
bodies, for payment of the rates appearing to be payable
under or by virtue of the said rolls:

Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you
that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of
the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the
Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native
lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said
lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates
on or before the 9th day of May, 1885, such payment
to be made by you at the office of the local body in whose
district the lands affected are respectively comprised, and as
noted in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Local Body. | Office of Local Body where
| Payment is to be made.

Moa Road Board .. .. | Inglewood.
Te Arai Road Board .. .. | Gisborne.
Karioi Road Board .. .. | Ruapuke.

As witness my hand this seventh day of May, on
thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.
JULIUS VOGEL.

Japanese Merchant Ships not required to be remeasured.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 1st May, 1885.

A DESPATCH has been received from the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, forwarding copy of an Order of
Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the 27th January,
1885, in which it is directed that the ships of Japan, the
certificates of Japanese registry or other national papers of
which are dated on or after the 1st July, 1884, shall be
deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in the said certificates
of registry or other national papers.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.)

Tenders for Savings Bank Envelopes.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st May, 1885.

TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office,
Wellington, until noon on Monday, the 15th June
next, for the supply and delivery to the Storekeeper, Post and
Telegraphs, Wellington, of 100,000 Savings Bank envelopes,
of the patterns to be seen at the several Chief Post Office,
throughout the colony.

Tenders must be indorsed "Tender for Savings Bank
Envelopes," and be addressed to the Superintendent, Post
and Telegraphs, General Post Office, Wellington.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Tenders.

Railway Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1885.

THE following is a list of tenders received for the
supply of ten locomotive engines for the New Zealand
Railways.

By order.

J. P. MAXWELL,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

Amount
per Engine.
Accepted. £ s. d.
Scott Brothers, Christchurch .. .. 1,385 0 0

Declined.
Sparrow and Co., Dunedin (alternative tender) 1,385 0 0
John Anderson, Christchurch .. .. 1,435 0 0
" (alternative tender) 1,355 0 0
Kincaid, McQueen, and Co., Dunedin .. 1,576 9 0
" (alternative tender) 1,488 8 6
George Fraser, Auckland .. .. .. 2,319 2 7
" (alternative tender) 2,107 7 7

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 30th April, 1885.

PATENT for an Elliptic Expansion and Reversing Valve
Gear.

SAMUEL BATEMAN FIRTH, of Auckland, New Zealand,
Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 14th
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 29th
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. 1428.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for a Self-feeder for Threshing
Machines.

JOHN STALKER, of Tinwald, Canterbury, New Zealand,
Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said
invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 14th 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 29th 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. 1429.

Officiating Ministers for 1885.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th 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 Offici-
ating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are pub-
lished for general information:—

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Francis Whitmore Isitt.
The Reverend John Wesley Griffin.
Primitive Methodist Society.
The Reverend Robert Freeman.
Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1885.

THE Court Pride of the West, No. 4527, of the Ancient
Order of Foresters, situated at Hokitika, is registered
as a friendly society, under "The Friendly Societies Act,
1882," this 28th day of April, 1885.

F. W. FRANKLAND,
Registrar.