JULY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 925

PHILUS LEDAU, also of Adelaide, Coachbuilder (as Assignee of the said Stephen Henry Manners and Charles Edgar Manners), have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 28th day of January 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 13th day of January 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,
No. 1498.
Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th July, 1885.

PATENT for Improvements in Reverberatory Furnaces for smelting Copper Regulus.

WILLIAM BLAKEMORE, of Nymagee, New South Wales, Copper-smelter, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 8th 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 23rd 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,
No. 1499.
Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th July, 1885.

PATENT for an Improved Method of utilising the Waste Heat from Furnaces.

LAMBTON LE BRETON MOUNT, of the Melbourne Glass Works, South Melbourne, Victoria, Glass Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 8th 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 23rd 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,
No. 1500.
Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th July, 1885.

PATENT for Shilton's Patent Reversible Chain Belting.

FRANK OAKDEN, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Architect, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 8th 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 23rd 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,
No. 1501.
Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1885.

PATENT for a Lubricator for oiling and greasing Wheels turning on a Fixed Axle, to be called "Jeffree's Patent Lubricator."

JOHN LOBB JEFFREE, of Brunnerton, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 13th 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 28th 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,
No. 1502.
Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1885.

PATENT for a new Improved Lawn-tennis and Cricket Shoe, to be called "Poynter's Lawn-tennis and Cricket Shoe."

GEORGE HUTTON POYNTER, of Wellington, New Zealand, Bootmaker, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 13th 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 28th 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,
No. 1503.
Patent Officer.

Officiating Ministers for 1885.-Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 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:-

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend Edward Durant Cecil.
The Reverend Andrew Henderson Wallace.

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

Notice relating to Maori Lexicon.

Native Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1885.

THE Hon. the Native Minister desires that officers of the Native Department, and all others interested in the matter, will be good enough to assist the Rev. W. Colenso, of Napier, who is engaged in preparing for publication a Maori-English Lexicon, by furnishing him with the use of any peculiar tribal word or phrase pertaining to their particular districts, and also with any new or strange words they may know or may have noted down.

Mr. Colenso purposes, when the lexicon is published, to give due individual acknowledgment to all who shall have assisted in its preparation.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under Secretary.

Gold Fields Notices.

Agricultural Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 29th July, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned agricultural 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 Nugent Wood; Section 5, Block III., 40 acres 2 roods 28 perches, Waikaia District, Otago Mining District. No. 1421c.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

Certificate of Protection.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th July, 1885.

IN accordance with the third section of "The Mines Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879," a certificate of protection for six months, from the 1st May, 1885, to the 1st November, 1885, is granted in favour of the Golden Point Gold-Mining Company for their special claim of 80 acres 2 roods 11 perches, at Devil's Creek, Inangahua.

H. J. H. ELIOTT,
Under-Secretary for Goldfields.

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.