Mar. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 299

ciating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Walter Edmond Birks.
The Reverend Joseph Blight.
The Reverend Richard James Murray.
The Reverend Thomas Walter Newbold.
The Reverend Edward Stenberg.
The Reverend Robert Taylor.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend R. J. Williams.

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

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1886.

THE Washington Lodge, No. 28, situated at Sydenham, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 9th day of March, 1886.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 5th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Lamp-burners.

HUGH THOMAS SMITH, of 494, Kent Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of May 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 May 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. 1734.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 5th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Ore Concentrators.

LLOYD ALONZO KIMBALL, of Bond Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Mining Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of May 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 May 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. 1735.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Cleansing Fluid, to be called “Spirits of Ammonia: the Excelsior Washing-fluid.”

CHARLES WILLIAMS, of Albert Street, Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of May 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 May 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. 1737.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention to be known as Carroll and Brownlie’s Improved Self-feeder for Threshing-machines.

WILLIAM CARROLL and JAMES BROWNLIE, of Tapanui, Otago, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of May 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 May 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. 1738.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Permanent Fire-escape, affixed to the walls of houses or buildings.

DAVID CUNNINGHAM, of Dunedin, Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, Blacksmith, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 20th day of May 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 5th day of May 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. 1739.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Washing-machine, to be called “The Portable Washing-machine.”

THOMAS CHARLES HEMENT, of Christchurch, Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Plumber, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 20th day of May 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 5th day of May 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. 1740.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in the Treatment of Auriferous and Auro-argentiferous Minerals.

JULES WEIRICH, of Béziers Herault, in the Republic of France, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 20th day of May 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 5th day of May 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. 1741.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for condensing Steam and supplying Boilers, &c., in Steamships with Fresh Condensed Water, to be called “Friend’s Steam-condensing Apparatus.”

JOHN EDWARD FRIEND, of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 20th day of May 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 5th day of May 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. 1742.