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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 26th 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. 1765.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Joiners’ Bench-jaw, to be called “Canning’s Giant-grip Joiners’ Bench-jaw.”
FRANK STEPHEN CANNING, of Gore, Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, Auctioneer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 10th day of June 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 26th 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. 1766.

Goldfields Notices.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 10th March, 1886.

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:—
No. 914c. Charles Patton; Section 40, Block XII., Skipper’s Creek.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 19th March, 1886.

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

OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.

No. 451. Colclough Quartz Reef Company, Bendigo; 9 acres 3 roods 4 perches.
No. 457. Lucknow Company (Limited); Section 2, Block III., Wakefield; 5 acres and 13 perches.
No. 472c. Perseverance Company (Limited); Section 8, Block II., Bannockburn; 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches.
No. 474c. William Asher; Section 12, Block II., Bannockburn; 13 acres and 13 perches.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 19th March, 1886.

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

NELSON SOUTH-WEST MINING DISTRICT.

No. 1021. T. O’Rourke; Section 32, Block VIII., Mawheranui; 4 acres.
No. 1356. P. Sweetman; Section 42, Block VIII., Mawheranui; 5 acres 2 roods 17 perches.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

Mineral 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 mineral leases, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for mining for scheelite to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease as applied for, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Dunedin on or before the 27th day of April, 1886.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Crown Lands Office at Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: James Davidson. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: James Davidson. 100 acres, at Glenorchy, in the Wakatipu Mining District. Term applied for: Thirty years. Mineral: Scheelite.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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

Certificate of Protection granted.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 15th March, 1886.

IN accordance with section 3 of “The Mines Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” this Certificate of Protection for six months from 15th March, 1886, to 14th September, 1886, is granted in favour of James Harold, per Vincent Pyke, Esq., M.H.R., as Agent, for a gold-mining lease at Bendigo, in the Cromwell District.

H. J. H. ELIOTT,
Under-Secretary.

Native Land Court Notices.

Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

IN the matter of judgments of the Court given during a session opened at Tauranga, in the said district, on the 18th day of August, 1885, upon the hearing of claims to succeed to the interest of Enoka te Whanake in lands situate in the said district, and known as “Hikutawatawa,” “Karamuramu,” and “Waikareao Lot 110, Parish of Te Papa.”

And in the matter of the application of Meri Raiha Pakihana and another for a rehearing upon those claims:

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 March, 1886.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Applications 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 Te Taheke, Rotoiti, in the said district, on the 23rd day of March, 1885, upon the hearing of a claim for investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and known as “Okataina.”

And in the matter of the several applications of Hona te Hauiti and others, of Te Ruahuihui and others, of Hira Rangimatini and others, and of Katene Waiaua 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 applications.

Dated this 9th day of March, 1886.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Application for Rehearing of Claim granted.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given at Hastings, in the said district, on the 11th day of March, 1884, upon the hearing of a claim to succeed to the interest of Ihaka Kapo in a parcel of land known as “Kakewahine No. 2;” and in the matter of an application for a rehearing upon the aforesaid claim, made to this Court in writing by Piripi Maki within three months of such decision:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, and in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby order that a rehearing upon such claim be had on Monday, the 19th day of April, 1886, at a sitting of the Court to be then held at Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay.

Dated at Gisborne, this 18th day of March, 1886.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge,