Oct. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1257

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1885.

PATENT for an Improved Excavating or Combined Excavating and Fencing Machine.

JOHN SMITH, of Wellington, New Zealand, Civil Servant, has 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,
Patent Officer.
No. 1601.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1885.

PATENT for an Improved Automatic Continuous Spring-brake.

RALPH WHEATLY ODGERS KESTEL, Builder, and ALEXANDER McFARLANE, Mechanic, both of Port Adelaide, South Australia, 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,
Patent Officer.
No. 1602.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1885.

PATENT for Improved Automatic Mechanism for actuating Continuous Brakes of Railway Rolling-stock, in case of accident to a vehicle or train.

JOHN HENRY STEPHENSON, Engineer, and GEORGE FISHBURN, HENRY PHIPPS, Jun., and EDWIN SAMUEL PHIPPS, Contractors, all of Sydney, New South Wales, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 2nd day of February 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 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,
Patent Officer.
No. 1603.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1885.

PATENT for Improvements in Quartz-crushing Machines, parts of which are applicable for other purposes.

WILLIAM McLEAN, of Goulburn, New South Wales, Miner, and ROBERT WATSON, of Darlington, near Sydney, New South Wales, Licensed Victualler, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 2nd day of February 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 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,
Patent Officer.
No. 1604.

Officiating Ministers for 1885.—Notice No. 27.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 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 Bryan Meyrick King.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Patrick Joseph Smyth.

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

Bank of Australasia Half-yearly Return of Assets and Liabilities.

HALF-YEARLY Return of the aggregate average amount of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of Australasia, within the Colony of New Zealand, from the 14th day of April, 1885, to the 12th day of October, 1885, inclusive. Published pursuant to the Royal Charter of Incorporation.

LIABILITIES.

Bills in circulation not bearing interest .. 5,741 11 5
Notes in circulation not bearing interest .. 65,157 14 7
Bills and notes in circulation bearing interest ..
Balances due to other Banks .. 153 15 0
Cash deposited not bearing interest .. 256,904 19 2
Cash deposited bearing interest .. 385,035 11 6

Total liabilities within the colony .. £712,993 11 8

ASSETS.

Coin and bullion .. 127,713 15 6
Landed property (Bank premises) .. 58,666 17 9
Notes and bills of other Banks .. 1,859 19 11
Balances due from other Banks .. 159 14 9
Debts due to the Corporation, including notes, bills, and other securities .. 1,538,270 0 3

Total assets within the colony .. £1,726,670 8 2

E. W. MORRAH, Inspector.
J. W. PICKERSGILL, pro Accountant.
22nd October, 1885.

Te Makarini Scholarships.

TWO Scholarships of the yearly value of £35 each, to be held at the Native College, Te Aute, Hawke's Bay, are offered for competition to Maori youths, on the conditions laid down in the Regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1884. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 14th and 15th December, 1885.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.
Wellington, 29th July, 1885.

Native Land Court Notices.

Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

IN the matter of a judgment of the Court given during a session opened at Shortland, in the said district, on the 5th day of May, 1885, upon the hearing of a claim for investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and known as "Rauhuia No. 2;" and in the matter of the application of Hone Ropiha and others for a rehearing upon such 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 dismiss such application.

Dated this 9th day of October, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

IN the matter of a judgment of the Court given during a session opened at Shortland, in the said district, on the