Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in the
Canterbury Portable Music-stand.

HENRY DURAND, of Timaru, District of Canterbury, Gun-
smith, 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, particu-
lars in writing of their objections to the said application,
otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for the Boy-power Weed-
extirpator.

ROBERT BAIN DAVIDSON, of Templeton, in the County
of Selwyn, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of the said invention; and I have appointed Tues-
day, the 23rd 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 8th 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.

Goldfields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 17th December, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-
mining lease cancelled, and that the ground is now open for
application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been
applied for:-

Patrick Power and others; Block XVI., 8 acres 1 rood,
Greymouth Survey District. No. 30, Nelson South-West
District.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

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 appli-
cant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be
valid objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds
of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the
Warden at Westport on or before the 18th day of January,
1886.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be
seen at the Warden's Office at Westport.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: James Stanley. Style under which it is in-
tended to conduct the business: "The Koranui Quartz-
Mining Company." 16 acres 2 roods, at Waimangaroa, in
the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this sixteenth day
of December, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

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.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the
grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged
with the Warden at Naseby on or before the 18th day of
January, 1886.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be
seen at the Warden's Office at Naseby.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Gee Wee and Company. 8 acres, at Kye-
burn, in the Mount Ida Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this sixteenth day
of December, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Crown Lands Notices.

Crown Lands to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing
System.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 14th December, 1885.

SALE of 65,250 acres in Small Grazing Runs, under
Part VII., "Land Act, 1885."

Terms: Twenty-one years' lease, with right of renewal as
provided by the Act. Upset rental, 6d. per acre.

By auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on Tues-
day, the 26th January, 1886, at noon.

Tiger Hill District: Nos. 244 and 244A to 244K, from 1,138
to 2,742 acres.

Swinburn District: Section No. 1, Block VI., Section No.
1, Block IX., Sections Nos. 2 and 3, Block X., Sections Nos. 3
and 5, Block XIV., from 613 to 2,698 acres.

Waihemo District: Section No. 1, Block IX., 722 acres.

Strath-Taieri District: Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block VI.,
Section No. 15, Block X., Sections Nos. 1, 3, and 6, Block
XI., Section No. 9, Block XII., Section No. 3, Block XIII.,
from 1,374 to 4,366 acres.

Maniototo District: Sections Nos. 1 and 3, Block XV.,
1,748 and 2,048 acres.

Silver Peak District: Sections Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Block IV.,
Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block V., from 994 to 3,017 acres.

NOTE.-Intending purchasers must deposit with the Com-
missioner of Crown Lands, prior to sale, the required statu-
tory declaration, and on fall of hammer pay the first half-
year's rent from 1st March to 1st September, 1886, together
with fee for lease, £1 1s.

Full particulars given on application to the Crown Lands
Office, Dunedin.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lease of Subdivisions of Railway Reserve for Sale by
Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 2nd December, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned subdivisions
of the Railway Reserve, immediately adjoining the Town
of Opunake, will be offered for lease at public auction, for a
term of seven years, at the upset annual rental of 6s.
per acre, at the Resident Magistrate's Courthouse, Opunake,
on Thursday, the 7th January, 1886, at 12 o'clock noon.

No compensation will be allowed for improvements at the
end of the term, and the right will be reserved to resume the
whole or any portion of the land during the currency of the
lease if required for a railway.

For particulars and conditions apply at the Land Offices
at New Plymouth, Patea, and Hawera.

Thos. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Lot. Area. Lot. Area.

A. R. P. A. R. P.

1 7 2 28 7 5 3 3
2 5 2 12 8 5 3 3
3 5 3 0 9 5 3 3
4 8 0 18 10 5 3 3
5 7 2 3 11 5 2 3
6 7 2 3 12 17 3 0