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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Designation of Post Office changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1886.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the
designation of the Post Office in the Napier Postal
District, known as Hampden, will, from the 1st proximo, be
changed to

TIKOKINO.

By order of the Postmaster-General.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Tenders for the Right of Advertising on certain Telegraph
Posts throughout New Zealand.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1886.

TENDERS will be received by the Electric Telegraph
Commissioner, at the General Post Office, Wellington,
up to noon of the 26th day of April, 1886, from persons
desiring to lease the right of advertising on the telegraph
posts in any or all of the Provincial Districts of Auckland,
Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson,
Westland, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, which are not
erected on lines of railway or on railway premises.

Conditions of lease and form of tender can be obtained on
application at the telegraph offices at Invercargill, Dunedin,
Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Blenheim, Hoki-
tika, Greymouth, Reefton, Westport, Nelson, Wellington,
Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Napier, Gis-
borne, Tauranga, Thames, Auckland, and Cambridge.

Tenders must be addressed to the Commissioner of Tele-
graphs, and indorsed "Tender for Advertising on Telegraph
Posts."

The Commissioner reserves the right of rejecting the
highest or any tender.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Tenders for Erection of Native Schoolhouse and Teacher's
Residence.

Education Department,
Wellington, 31st March, 1886.

TENDERS will be received at this office up to noon of
the 30th April next for the erection of a Native School-
house and Teacher's Residence at

Tangiteroria, Northern Wairoa ;

and up to noon of the 31st May next for works on the East
Coast, between Hicks Bay and Tolago Bay, as follows :—

Rangitukia : School and residence.
Tikitiki : School.
Kawakawa : School and residence.
Tuparoa : School and residence.
Wharekahika : School and residence.
Tokomaru : Residence, and repairs to school.

Plans, &c., may be seen and forms of tender obtained on
application to the County Engineer, Dargaville; the Native
Agent, Auckland; the Resident Magistrates, Whangarei, Gis-
bome, and Napier; and the Schoolmaster, Waiomatatini.

In the case of the East Coast schools tenders may be for
the works as a whole, or for any one or more of the works ;
but in any tender for more than one work the price at which
the tenderer is willing to undertake each separate work must
be stated.

Telegraphic tenders will be accepted provided the original
tender and deposit are lodged at the same time with one of
the Government officers above mentioned.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary for Education.

Latin and Greek Subjects for Civil Service Examination,
April and October, 1887.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 30th March, 1886.

THE following are the Latin and Greek authors for the
April and October examinations, 1887 :—

LATIN.—Virgil, Æneid, Books IV. and V. ; and Cicero, De
Amicitia.

GREEK.—Euripides, Alcestis ; and Xenophon, Anabasis,
Book II.

N.B.—Candidates who take up either of these languages
will have to pass in both verse and prose author.

By order.
C. C. N. BARRON,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1886.—Notice No. 9.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th March, 1886.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled
"The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an Offi-
ciating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Hugh Irwin.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Rowing-oar, or Scull,
with Metallic Blade, Rowlock-band, and Feathering-
flange.

GEORGE WILLIAM GREEN, of Dunedin, in the Colony of
New Zealand, Carpenter, 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 applica-
tion, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1767.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Side-hook Fastening for
Bedsteads and Sofas.

JOHN WATSON, of Caversham, Otago, in the Colony of
New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of the said invention; and I have appointed Thurs-
day, 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, other-
wise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1768.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for straining-up Fencing Wire.

ARTHUR SHIELD, of Waikonini, Hawke's Bay, in the
Colony of New Zealand, Sheep-farmer, has deposited at this
office a specification of the said invention; and I have ap-
pointed Tuesday, the 15th 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 1st day of June next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said appli-
cation, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the
same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1769.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in making,
composing, and using a Mixture or Composition to
form the Inside Lining of Furnaces for smelting Metallic
Ores, and the constituent parts thereof, to be called "The
Russell Fellows Patent Bottom-lining."

GEORGE RUSSELL FELLOWS, of Onehunga, in the Pro-
vincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zea-
land, Bricklayer, has deposited at this office a specification
of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the
15th 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 1st day of June next, at this office, particulars