April 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 455

Election of Native Assessors under Licensing Acts.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th April, 1887.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hand
of the Returning Officers, that

TOHA RAHURAHU,
MATENE TE RUAWAT, and
WIREMU HOUNUKU

have been duly elected to be the Assessors for the Native
Licensing Districts of Clyde, Waikaremoana, and Raglan
respectively.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Under-Secretary.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st April, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Telephone
Transmitters or Microphones.

PARNELL RABBDIGE and GUSTAV DILLBERG, of Christchurch,
Canterbury, New Zealand, Electricians, have deposited at
this office a specification of the said invention; and I have
appointed Thursday, the 23rd 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 8th day of June next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said applica-
tion, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 2286.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st April, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in the
Production of Pictures with the Aid of Photography
(being a communication from abroad by LOUIS JACQUES
HENRI CELLERIER, of Rue de Château, 29, Asnières, France,
Photographic Chemist).

EDWARD WATERS, of Molesworth Chambers, 75, Chancery
Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent, has deposited at
this office a specification of the said invention; and I have
appointed Thursday, the 23rd 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 8th day of June next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said applica-
tion, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 2287.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 4th April, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for the Prevention of Ships
striking the Ground or Bed of the Ocean.

HENRY CHAMBERLIN, of Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand,
has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention;
and I have appointed Thursday, the 23rd 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 8th 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. 2288.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Spouting
Bracket, to be called "The Simplex Spouting
Bracket."

HENRY WILLIAM POTTER, of Invercargill, New Zealand,
Architect, has deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the
23rd 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
8th 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. 2289.

Officiating Ministers for 1887.—Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1887.

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 name of an Offi-
ciating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information:—

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend James Chew.

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

Native Land Court Notices.

Adjourned Rehearing.—Kakewahine No. 2 Block.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a
session opened at Hastings, in the said district, on the
11th day of March, 1884, upon the hearing of a succession
claim for the appointment of a successor to the interest of
Thaka Kapo in a certain block in the said district, known as
Kakewahine No. 2; and in the matter of an application,
made to the Court, in writing, within three months after
such decision, for a rehearing upon the aforesaid claim:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court,
and in exercise of the authority vested in me on that behalf,
do hereby order that a rehearing upon such claim be had on
the 10th day of May, 1887, at a sitting of the Court to be
then held at Taradale, in the district aforesaid.

Dated this 30th day of March, 1887.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Application for Rehearing of Claim granted.—Porangahau Block.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a
session opened at Hastings, in the said district, on the
23rd day of October, 1885, upon the hearing of a claim
for investigation of title to land situate in the said
district, and known as Porangahau; and in the matter of
the application of Henare Mataua and others, made to this
Court, in writing, within three months after such decision
was given, by Natives thinking themselves aggrieved thereby,
for a rehearing upon the aforesaid claim:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court,
and in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me,
do hereby order that a rehearing upon such claim be had on
Tuesday, the 10th day of May, 1887, at a sitting of the Court
to be then holden at Taradale, in the district aforesaid.

Dated this 30th day of March, 1887.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 30th March, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court
to be held at Taradale, in the District of Hawke's
Bay, on the 10th day of May, 1887, will be heard the ap-
plications of the persons whose names appear in the first
column for the partition of the hereditaments comprised in
the Crown grants of the pieces of land the names of which
appear in the second column, situate in the districts named
in the third column.

W. GREY,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.