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Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 9th January, 1885.
PATENT for an Invention for stripping or first-fibering
New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax).
DANIEL MURPHY, of Springlands, Wairau, Marlborough,
New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 31st
day of March 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 16th
day of March 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. 1351.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1885.
PATENT for Joske's Patent Kava Beverages.
PAUL JOSKE, of Suva, in the Colony of Fiji, has de-
posited at this office a specification of the said invention;
and I have appointed Tuesday, the 31st day of March 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 16th day of March
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. 1352.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1885.
PATENT for an Invention for hoeing and cultivating
Land, to be known as "The Triumph Hoe and Drill
Cultivator."
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD MURRAY, of Piako, Auckland, New
Zealand, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 2nd
day of April 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 18th day
of March next, at this office, particulars in writing of their
objections to the said application, otherwise they will be pre-
cluded from urging the same.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1353.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1885.
PATENT for an Improved Wire-strainer.
CHARLES OSBERN RALPH WALKER, of Coolart, Balmarr-
ing, Victoria, Station Manager, has deposited at this office
a specification of the said invention; and I have ap-
pointed Thursday, the 2nd day of April 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 18th day of March
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. 1355.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—WILMER MATTHEWS HARRIS, of the City of
London, in England, a Notary Public of the Supreme
Court of Judicature of England, has been appointed this day,
by his Honour the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under section 2
of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,"
for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths,
affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.
Dated 5th January, 1885.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—CHARLES BERKLEY HARRIS, of the City of
London, in England, a Notary Public of the Supreme
Court of Judicature of England, has been appointed this day,
by his Honour the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under section 2
of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,"
for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths,
affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.
Dated 5th January, 1885.

Examination for the Civil Service of India.

Education Department,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1884.
ON the 2nd June, 1885, and following days, an Examina-
tion, open to all qualified persons, will be held in
London. Persons desirous to be admitted as candidates
must apply on forms, which may be obtained from the
Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S.W., or from
the undersigned. The forms must be returned so as to be
received at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners, in
London, on or before the 31st March, 1885.
By order.
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary for Education.

Native Land Court Notices.

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

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
AUCKLAND DISTRICT.
IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a
session opened at Ohinemuri, in the said district, on the
26th day of March, 1884, upon the hearing of a claim for
investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and
known as "Ngamoko;" and in the matter of the application
made to this Court in writing, within three months after
such decision was given, by a Native named Ema Wata Tipa,
thinking herself aggrieved thereby, for a rehearing upon the
aforesaid 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 order that a rehearing upon such claim be had on
the 1st day of April next, at a sitting of the Court to be then
holden at Shortland, in the district aforesaid.
Dated this 23rd day of August, 1884.
J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

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

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
AUCKLAND DISTRICT.
IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a
session opened at Ohinemuri, in the said district, on the
26th day of March, 1884, upon the hearing of a claim for
investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and
known as "Ohinemuri No. 20;" and in the matter of the
applications made to this Court in writing, within three
months after such decision was given, by certain Natives
thinking themselves aggrieved thereby, for a rehearing upon
such 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
1st day of April next, at a sitting of the Court to be then
holden at Shortland, in the district aforesaid.
Dated this 8th day of October, 1884.
J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

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

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
AUCKLAND DISTRICT.
IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a
session opened at Ohinemuri, in the said district, on
the 26th day of March, 1884, upon the hearing of a claim for
investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and
known as "Hararahi;" and in the matter of the applications
made to this Court in writing, within three months after such
decision was given, by Natives thinking themselves aggrieved
thereby, for a rehearing upon the aforesaid claim: