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and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 9th day of June 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. 1781.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Pulverizing Muller or Drag, with removable Shoe and adjustable Fastener, for use in berdans and other grinding pans, to be called the “Climax Muller Shoe and Fastener.”

HENRY HOPPER ADAMS and SAM B. FIRTH, of Waiorango-mai and Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Engineers, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 24th 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 9th day of June next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1782.

Goldfields Notices.

Gold-mining Lease refused.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 31st March, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the gold-mining lease applied for by David Faulkner and party, “The Eldorado Sluicing Company,” namely, 10 acres, Section 5, Block IV., Aorere, Collingwood Mining District, has been refused, and the ground is now open to persons holding miners’ rights or business licenses as if a lease of the said ground had not been applied for.

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

Gold-mining Leases 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 leases of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicants specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such leases.

Objections to the granting of such leases, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before the 14th day of April, 1886.

Copy of the applications made and plans annexed may be seen at the Warden’s Office at Reefton.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: William Heaphy. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Lone Star Gold-mining Company. 1,200 by 300 feet, at Boatman’s, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: John McCaffrey. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Orient Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Boatman’s, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: John Howell. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Burke’s Creek Sluicing Company. 10 acres, at Boatman’s, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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 applicant 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 Lyell on or before the 5th day of July, 1886.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: James Inglis. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: The Owen Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Owen River, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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 applicant 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 Reefton on or before the 14th day of April, 1886.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: William Hindmarsh. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Globe Gold-mining Company (Limited). 14 acres, at Devil’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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

Crown Lands Notices.

Taking Road through Pastoral Leasehold Lands held by W. S. Taylor and W. A. Low, Marlborough Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 11th March, 1886.

THE following resolution passed by the Marlborough Land Board on the 1st March, 1886, taking a road through the pastoral leasehold lands held respectively by William Simpson Taylor and William Anderson Low, is published for general information:—

“Resolved, That in pursuance of section 87 of ‘The Marlborough Waste Lands Act, 1867,’ and of every other power enabling the Marlborough Land Board in that behalf, the said Land Board doth hereby take the following mentioned lands, being portions of the runs held under pastoral leases by William Simpson Taylor and William Anderson Low respectively, for a public road, viz.:—

“All that parcel of land in the Barefell’s Survey District, Provincial District of Marlborough, containing 120 acres or thereabouts, being a strip of land, 3 chains in width, forming part of the Barefell’s Run, held under lease by William Simpson Taylor; commencing at a public road on the left bank of the Awatere River, at the south-western corner of Section 17 on the said run, in the District of Awatere, and following on and along the left bank of the Awatere River to the summit of Barefell’s Pass.

“Also all that piece or parcel of land in the Barefell’s Survey District, Provincial District of Marlborough, containing 130 acres or thereabouts, being a strip of land, 3 chains in width, forming part of the Barefell’s Run, held under lease by William Anderson Low, commencing at the summit of Barefell’s Pass, and following on and along the left bank of the Guide River, and terminating at the north-eastern boundary of Section 1, North Clarence Run, in the District of Clarence.”

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,