Dec. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1625

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Method of generating Gas in connection with Hooker’s Patent Incandescent Light, to be called “Rhodes’s Patent Air-supplier.”

GEORGE RHODES, of Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 24th day of March 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 March 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. 2156.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Meat-safes, which improvements are partly applicable to existing meat-safes.

ROBERT JOHN SHAW, of Nos. 24 and 26, Dover Road, Folkstone, Kent, England, Draper, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 16th 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 1st 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. 2157.

Goldfields Notices.

Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 11th December, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-mining leases cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no leases of the said ground had ever been applied for:—

No. 1360. The Bendigo Gold-mining Company; Section 10, Block X., Waitahu, Nelson South-west Mining District; 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches.

No. 1358. Caples Creek Gold-mining Company; Section 57, Block XI., Reefton, Nelson South-west Mining District; 16 acres 1 rood 21 perches.

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

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 11th December, 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. 813. Thomas Garth; Riverview, in the Nelson South-west Mining District; 7 acres.

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

Gold-mining Lease Certificates declared forfeited.

IN conformity with the regulations for the granting and issue of gold-mining leases, it is hereby notified that the under-mentioned certificates of application have been declared forfeited for non-execution of lease, and that the land is now open to persons holding miners’ rights or business licenses, or to applicants for a lease, as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—

767c. William Henry Tregonning and George Taylor; Section 5, Block I., Rock and Pillar District, containing 5 acres, in the Naseby Mining District.

868c. August Sorensen; Section 36, Block XI., Shotover District, containing 16 acres, in the Wakatipu Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. P. MAITLAND,
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 5th day of January, 1887.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: John B. Becche. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Sanguine Extended Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, Big River, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: George Wise. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: International Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, Section 80, Block XI., Reefton, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

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

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 5th day of January, 1887.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: John Trennery. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Gladstone Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods 17 perches, Section 29, Block X., Reefton, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicants: John Morley Murray and William Beilby. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Middle Star Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, Murray Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicants: William Peter Manuel, Alexander Caird, and Lawrence Moncrieff. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Midlothian Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, Devil’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

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

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