Oct. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1315

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1886.

THE following notices of elections of Members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
(For the Under-Secretary.)

Maraetai Road District, County of Manukau :
Robert Humphrey Duder.
William Spencer, jun.

Tamaki West Road District, County of Eden :
Charles Edward Cooke.

Tikorangi Road District, County of Clifton :
George W. Cunningham.
George Jupp.
William Earp.
Samuel Knight.
James Sarten.

Officiating Ministers for 1886.—Notice No. 24.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 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 Arthur Frederick Williams, B.A.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend S. Millar Smith.
The Reverend James Brown Marshall.

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

Tenders.

Railway Department,
Wellington, 13th October, 1886.

THE following successful and unsuccessful tenders for supply and delivery of ironbark timber for the Hurunui-Bluff Railway are published for general information.

By order.
J. P. MAXWELL,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1886.

THE St. Joseph’s Branch, No. 172, situated at Hastings, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand District of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 12th day of October, 1886.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Bar and Grooved Toe-plate, to be known as “Williams’s Double-grip Toe-plate.”

CHARLES WILLIAMS, of Blenheim, New Zealand, Bootmaker, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 25th day of January 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 10th day of January 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. 2047.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in lighting Railway Trains by Electricity, and in Apparatus for that Purpose.

EDWARD JOHN HOUGHTON, of Pilkington Road, Peckham, in the County of Surrey, England, Electrical Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 25th day of January 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 10th day of January 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. 2048.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Method of, and Apparatus for, extracting the Useful Products from all Descriptions of Ores.

AUGUSTE ALEXANDRE RAMPANT, of No. 1, Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 25th day of January 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 10th day of January 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. 2049.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in the Manufacture of Lock Nuts.

JAMES SCATTERGOOD, of Stour Valley, Nut and Bolt Works, West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, England, Manager, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 25th day of January 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 10th day of January 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. 2050.