Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1495

Notice of Intention to take Land for the Construction of Defence Works at Waltham Rise, Ocean Beach, near Dunedin.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and “The Public Works Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1885,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of works for the purpose of defence in Waltham Rise, Ocean Beach, near Dunedin, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plans of the said works and of the lands so required to be taken are deposited in the Public Works Office at Dunedin, and are there open for inspection: And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Otago; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13630, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Award of Sinking Fund Commissioners under “The Public Debts Sinking Funds Act, 1868.”

KNOW all men by these presents that whereas by “The Public Debts Sinking Funds Act, 1868,” it is provided that if, and whenever, it shall be made to appear to the Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Funds that any of the debentures issued under any of the Acts specified in the First Schedule thereto have been converted or exchanged for debentures issued under “The Consolidated Loan Act, 1867,” the Commissioners shall from time to time determine what amount of the sinking fund held by them and created for the payment of such first-named debentures shall be released, and that the Commissioners shall make such determination by an award in writing: And whereas it has been made to appear to the said Commissioners that debentures to the amount of fifty-six thousand nine hundred pounds, being part of the debentures to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds issued under “The New Zealand Loan Act, 1860,” being one of the Acts named in the First Schedule to the said Public Debts Sinking Funds Act, 1868,” have been converted or exchanged for debentures issued under “The Consolidated Loan Act, 1867,” and that the amount of the debentures still outstanding and unconverted of the said loan of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds is thereby reduced to the sum of ninety-three thousand one hundred pounds: And whereas the sum of eighty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight pounds fifteen shillings and fourpence is held by the said Commissioners as accumulated sinking fund for the repayment of the said loan of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and the sum of sixty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight pounds fifteen shillings and fourpence of the said accumulated sinking fund with interest thereon, together with the sinking fund hereafter accruing and interest thereon, will be sufficient to reproduce the said sum of ninety-three thousand one hundred pounds, being the amount of the outstanding and unconverted portion of the said loan of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds on or before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, being the day fixed by law for the repayment thereof:

Now know ye that the Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Funds, by this their award, in writing, do determine that the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds, being part of the said accumulated sinking fund so held by them for the payment of the debentures issued under “The New Zealand Loan Act, 1860,” shall be released and paid over to the Public Account of New Zealand, to the credit of the Consolidated Fund, as by the said Public Debts Sinking Funds Act provided.

As witness our hands this sixteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD,
Controller and Auditor-General, Chairman.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Colonial Treasurer.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1885.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be opened at

Port Fitzroy (Chief Office, Auckland),
on the 2nd proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Presses for Wool and other Materials requiring to be pressed and baled.

CHRISTIAN KOERSTZ and JOSEPH SWANN, of Waverley, County of Wanganui, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 18th 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 3rd 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. 1658.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for a Double-action Band-brake, applicable to all kinds of vehicles.

WILLIAM REEVES, of Waikari, New Zealand, Coach- and Wagon-builder, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 18th 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 3rd 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. 1659.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Apparatus for pulverizing, separating, and treating Ores and other Substances.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS LUCKENBACH, of the City, County, and State of New York, United States of America, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 18th 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 3rd 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. 1660.