If any candidates offer themselves, the January examination for New Zealand will be held some time in the month of January, 1887, or as soon after as the examination papers arrive in the colony, and at such place or places as may be hereafter fixed, having regard to the candidates' places of abode.

Candidates will not be approved by the Examiners unless they have shown a competent knowledge in each of the following subject, according to the details specified under the several heads:—

1. Latin:
2. Any two of the following languages : (a) Greek, (b) French, and (c) German:
3. The English language, English history, and modern geography:
4. Mathematics:
5. Natural philosophy
6. Chemistry.

Particulars of the foregoing subjects of examination will be found in the Calendar of the University of London, under the head of “Regulations—Matriculation.” The special Latin and Greek subjects for January, 1887, are Cicero, De Senectute and Pro Lege Manilia; and Homer, Iliad, Book XVI.

The scholarship will be considered as commencing from the 1st July, 1887, but the first quarterly instalment will be paid to the successful candidate in the first week of October, 1887, at which time he will be expected to present himself to the Secretary of the Gilchrist Trust in London. Subsequent payments will depend on attendance at three courses of lectures in every session, and on good conduct; and the scholar must present himself for the first examination in one of the Faculties of the University of London before the end of the second year of the currency of his scholarship.

Every candidate will be required to give satisfactory evidence that he is between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two years, and either that he is a native of New Zealand, or that he has resided in New Zealand for the last five years.

Notice of entry, with satisfactory testimonials as to personal character, and the London matriculation fee of £2, must be sent to the Secretary for Education, Wellington, so as to reach his office not later than the 1st January, 1887.

By order.

WM. JAS. HABENS,

Secretary for Education.

Tenders for Savings Bank Envelopes.

General Post Office,

Wellington, 27th May, 1886.

TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until noon on Monday, the 12th July next; for the supply and delivery to the Storekeeper, Post and Telegraphs, Wellington, of 100,000 Savings Bank envelopes, of the patterns to be seen at the several Chief Post Offices throughout the colony.

The last supply of these articles having been badly cut and gummed, and without clear folding marks, it is specially notified that the pattern must be strictly followed.

Tenders must be indorsed “Tender for Savings Bank Envelopes,” and be addressed to the Superintendent, Post and Telegraphs, General Post Office, Wellington.

C. LEMON,

Superintendent.

Officiating Ministers for 1886.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General's Office,

Wellington, 1st June, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Reginald Robert Bradley.

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.

The Reverend A. Bruce Todd.

Baptists.

The Reverend Thomas Wagstaff.

WM. R. E. BROWN,

Registrar-General.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 28th May, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Surveyors' Land Wire Chain-measures, to be known as “Littlejohn's Patent Adjustable Wire Land-chain.”

WILSON LITTLEJOHN, of Wellington, New Zealand, Watch-and Clock-maker, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 12th day of August 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 28th day of July 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,

No. 1835.

Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 28th May, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a numbered Metal Label, which can be firmly and easily affixed to a single key or bunch of keys without the aid of a ring, to be called the “Post Office Key-register.”

JAMES HOPKINS STEVENS, of Feilding, in the County of Oroua, New Zealand, Postmaster, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 12th day of August 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 28th day of July 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,

No. 1836.

Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 28th May, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Composition for cleansing Wool, Silver, and other Goods.

GEORGE WILLIAM NATHANIEL HAMILTON, of St. Clair Villa, Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Electroplater and Gilder, and WILLIAM DUKE O'NEILL, of Mudgee, New South Wales, Postmaster, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 12th day of August 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 28th day of July 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,

No. 1837.

Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 28th May, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Washboard for household use, to be called the “Guidwife Washboard.”

ISAAC SELBY, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Carpenter, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 19th day of August 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 4th day of August 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,

No. 1838.

Patent Officer.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 28th May, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Economical Apparatus for warming Water or other Liquids by the Heat of a Candle, to be called “Coventry's Economical Heater.”

JAMES COVENTRY, of Wellington, New Zealand, Tinsmith, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 19th day of August 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 4th day of August 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,

No. 1839.

Patent Officer.