Aug. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1049

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend Walter Harris.

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

Officiating Ministers for 1887.—Notice No. 17.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1887.

NOTICE having been given that the Reverend James Miller Killen has ceased to be an Officiating Minister of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, his name has been withdrawn from the list at the request of the Moderator.

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

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Waimangaroa, Westport.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 26th July, 1887.

AN Agency of the above department has been opened at the

Post Office, Waimangaroa, Westport,

as from the 1st August, 1887.

D. M. LUCKIE.
Commissioner.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improved Appliances for conveying Railway Carriage-lamps to and from the Lamp-room and the Train.

Ernest Maltravers Bolger, of Myrtle Villa, Evelina Road, Toorak, near Melbourne, Victoria, Gentleman, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 17th day of April 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 2nd day of April 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. 2448.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Motor Engines, operated by the Combustion of Hydro-carbon Vapour.

William Dent Priestman and Samuel Priestman, of Holderness Foundry, Hull, in the County of York, England, Engineers, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 13th 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 28th 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. 2449.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Lamps for burning Combustible Oils.

Isaiah de Zouche, M.D., of Dunedin, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 13th 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 28th 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. 2450.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Instrument for castrating Lambs.

Thomas Mann, Farmer, and Adolphus Harry Moore, Commission Agent, both of Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th 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 3rd day of October 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. 2451.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for a Process to be used in the smelting of the Titaniferous Ironsand of New Zealand, to be called “Hipkins’s Process.”

Josiah Hipkins, of Repton Villa, Grafton Road, Auckland, New Zealand, Ironmaster, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th 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 3rd day of October 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. 2452.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Wire Measures, to be known as “Brookes’s Patent Wire Measure.”

Edwin Stanley Brookes, of Wharehine, Auckland, New Zealand, Land Surveyor, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th 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 3rd day of October 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. 2453.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in Waterproof Leggings.

William Cooper, of Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand, Waterproof Clothing Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th 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 3rd day of October 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. 2454.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in a certain Wool-drying Machine, called “Bowen’s Patent Improved Wool-drying Machine.”

William Nelson, Manager of the Tomoana Freezing Works, and Eugene Bowen, Wool-classer, both of Tomoana, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of October next, at 11 o’clock in the