JULY 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 791

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.

Officiating Ministers for 1886.—Notice No. 16.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th 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 Alexander English.

The Church of Christ.

Mr. William Samuel Houchins.

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

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for dispensing with a Plug in Wire-straining, to be called “Jenkins’s Patent Plug-dispenser.”

JOHN HAMMILL JENKINS, of Carterton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, New Zealand, Contractor, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 14th day of September 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 30th 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,
Patent Officer.

No. 1878.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Portable Sheep-dipping Apparatus.

CORRIE ROOPE WILLIAMS, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Commission Agent, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 16th day of September 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 September 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. 1879.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in the Manufacture of Telegraph-poles, Insulators and Insulator-bars, Pillars, Posts of all Descriptions, Rolls for various purposes, Chimneys, Pipes, Sleepers, Door-steps, and other Building Blocks, and Tanks, Casks, &c. (being a communication from David Wilson, of Millwood House, Grays, in the County of Essex, England, Manager of Cement Works).

WILLIAM HARPER, of No. 12, Flinders Lane East, Melbourne, Victoria, Merchant, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 16th day of September 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 September 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. 1880.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Process and Apparatus for treating Metals, Alloys, and especially Auriferous Ores, by Electrolysis. (A communication from abroad, by Henry Rinner Cassel, of 33, Verulam Street, London, England, Metallurgist.)

WALTER SMYTHE BAYSTON, of No. 87, Bourke Street West, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 21st day of September 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 6th day of September 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. 1881.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for advertising, to be called “Revell’s Patent Advertising Chair.”

FREDERICK WOOLRIDGE REVELL, of Auckland, New Zealand, Cabinetmaker, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 21st day of September 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 6th day of September 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. 1882.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Self-closing Traps and Distributing Hopper Coal Railway-wagon.

EDMUND WICKES, of Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand, Agent, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 21st day of September 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 6th day of