JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 917

the New Zealand Gazette of the 19th March and 29th October, 1885, offering rewards for gold discoveries.
W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

ADDITIONAL REGULATION.
No claim for a reward for the discovery of gold will be considered by the Goldfields Committee unless such claim be made within one year from the date of the discovery.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1887.
PATENT for an Invention for the Cure of Scab, the Destruction of Lice and Ticks in Sheep, and all Low Organism of Parasitical Life.
WILLIAM THOMAS OWEN, of Makirikiri, Wanganui, New Zealand, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 13th 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 29th 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. 2398.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1887.
PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in Furnace Fire-bars.
JAMES GODFREY WARNER, of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st 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. 2399.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1887.
PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Form of Candlestick, as regards the Socket and Holder, to be called “The Zealandia Candlestick.”
JOSEPH JAMES MACKY, of Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st 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. 2400.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1887.
PATENT for an Invention for a Ring Clamp Clothesline Peg.
ROBERT WOOLLEY GIBBS, of Maitai Valley, Nelson, New Zealand, Cordage Factor, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st 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. 2401.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1887.
PATENT for an Invention for Johnson’s Rapid Self-testing and Discharging Amalgamating-pans.
JAMES JOHNSON, of Nelson, New Zealand, Carpenter, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st 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. 2402.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th July, 1887.
PATENT for an Invention called “The Andrews Reel-holder.”
HENRY ALBERT ANDREWS, of Maheno, Canterbury, New Zealand, Commission Agent, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 15th 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 31st 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. 2403.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 29th June, 1887.
THE Ponsonby Lodge, No. 212, of the United Ancient Order of Druids, Branch of the Grand Lodge of Australia, situated at Ponsonby, is registered as a friendly society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 29th day of June, 1887.
EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Native Land Court Notices.

Application for Rehearing of a Claim granted.—Kaitieke Block.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND :
DISTRICT OF WHANGANUI.
IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a session opened at New Plymouth, in the said district, on the 7th day of January, 1887, upon the hearing of a claim for investigation of title to land near Waitotara, in the district aforesaid, known as Kaitieke; and in the matter of an application for a rehearing upon the said claim made to this Court, in writing, within three months of such decision:
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 Wednesday, the 20th day of July, 1887, at a sitting of the Court to be then held at Whanganui.
J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

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

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 30th June, 1887.
NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court to be held at Whanganui, in the District of Whanganui, on the 20th day of July next, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column for the subdivision of the hereditament comprised in the Crown grant of the piece of land the name of which appears in the second column, situated in the district named in the third column.
ELWIN B. DICKSON,
Registrar.