JULY 15. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 843

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Filtering Apparatus, being a communication from abroad by JOHN FREDERICK COOK FARQUHAR, of No. 24, Long Acre, London, England, Engineer.

RICHARD PICKUP PARK, of Yarra Bank South, Melbourne, Victoria, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 7th day of October 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 22nd 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. 1905.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Double Batten-ladder.

CHARLES EDWARD RAWSON, of New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, Resident Magistrate, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 7th day of October 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 22nd 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. 1906.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Shape of Butter-package.

EDWARD SNOWBALL, of New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 12th day of October 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 27th 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. 1907.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for the Combination of certain Brushes used for various purposes so that the whole shall be as one instrument, to be called “Vinson’s Patent Triple Shoe-brush.”

THOMAS GEORGE VINSON, of No. 3, Grey Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Grocer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 12th day of October 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 27th 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. 1908.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 10th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for the Extermination and Utilization of Rabbits.

CHRISTOPHER WELCH, of Port Chalmers, Master Mariner, and CHARLES CLARK ARMSTRONG, of Dunedin, Merchant, Otago, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 12th day of October 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 27th 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. 1909.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Differential Churn.

REUBEN WITHELL, of Brookside, in the County of Selwyn, New Zealand, Mechanic, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 12th day of October 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 27th 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. 1910.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Automatic Rope Take-up.

REUBEN WITHELL, of Brookside, in the County of Selwyn, New Zealand, Mechanic, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 12th day of October 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 27th 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. 1911.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th July, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Telephone Transmitter.

PARNELL RABBRIDGE and GUSTAF DILLBERG, of Papanui, Canterbury, New Zealand, Electricians, &c., have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 14th day of October 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 29th 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. 1912.

Goldfields Notices.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 12th July, 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. 1224. Alfred Wearn, Joseph Allen, Thomas Henry Harris, James Wearn, and Richard Wearn; Section No. 34, Block VIII., Mawhera Mining District; area, 10 acres; Nelson South-west District.

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

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.