Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1469

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1885.

PATENT for the Destruction of Scale and Blight on Apple-trees, to be known as “The Blight and Scale Eradicator.”

DAVID MITCHELL CHAPMAN, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Fruiterer and Fruit-grower, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 11th 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 24th day of February 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. 1653.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for preparing New Zealand Fern, and manufacturing the same into Furniture and Ornaments, and called “Filicis Ligni Work.”

CHARLES TANDY and WILLIAM HENRY NOONE, of Auckland, New Zealand, Woodworkers, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 16th 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 1st 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. 1654.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for carrying Provisions, &c., to be called “Moody’s Portable Food-can.”

JAMES MOODY, of Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Boilermaker, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 16th 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 1st 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. 1655.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for a Patent Improved Plane.

ROBERT ALEXANDER MILLS, of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 16th 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 1st 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. 1656.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Explosive Compounds.

THOMAS WILKINS, of 19, Lyndhurst Road, Peckham, Surrey, England, Consulting Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 16th 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 1st 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. 1657.

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 Kaihu, Kaipara, in the said district, on the 22nd day of June, 1885, upon the hearing of a claim for the investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and known as “Mapuna;” and in the matter of the application of Hare Paerau 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 4th day of December, 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 4th day of December, 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 30th day of January, 1886.

SCHEDULE.

NAME by which land is known: Mapuna, Kaipara. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Kaipara. Area: 157 acres and 32 perches.

Dated this 4th day of December, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Sittings of the Native Land Court further adjourned.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 12th December, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of this Court at Waiomatatini, Waiapu, at present standing adjourned to Monday, the 18th day of January, 1886, is further adjourned to Monday, the 1st day of March, 1886.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 31st October, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court, to be held at Whanganui, in the District of Whanganui, on the 9th day of January, 1886, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column for the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised in the Crown grants of the pieces of land the names of which appear in the second column, situate in the districts named in the third column.

And, in pursuance of the provisions of section 7 of “The Native Land Division Act, 1882,” all persons having in their possession any original grant or other instrument of title relating to any of the lands aforesaid are hereby ordered to produce the same at the said sitting of the Court.

W. GREY,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.