Aug. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1103

Progress-payments for Exported Fish.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 24th September, 1886.

WITH reference to the notification in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th November, 1885, respecting the payment of bonuses to persons who prepare canned and cured fish for export under regulations published on the same date, it is hereby notified that progress-payments on account of such bonuses, claimed in accordance with those regulations, will now be made by this department. Claims to be for quantities not less than one ton net weight, and to be sent through the Collector of Customs at the port from which the fish was exported.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Goldfields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1885.

REWARDS are offered for the discovery of new goldfields, upon the conditions set forth hereunder, payable out of the parliamentary vote of £2,500.

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

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. THE maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved discovery of a new goldfield in accordance with these conditions is £500; but, if the total sum claimed as rewards in any one year exceeds the parliamentary vote, the amount available only will be divided equally.

2. The newly-discovered goldfield, if in alluvial ground, must be situated not less than ten miles from the nearest alluvial gold-workings, or, if in quartz, not less than five miles from the nearest existing quartz-mines.

3. No grant will be paid upon any application until it shall have been proved that not less than 20,000 ounces of gold have been extracted from the new goldfield within two years from the registration of the discovery, if in alluvial workings, and, if in quartz-workings, proof of a similar yield from this source within three years from such registration will be required.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being desirous of obtaining a reward, shall immediately forward a written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to the Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within which such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or Resident Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an application for reward.

5. No prospecting is allowed upon Native land without the approval in writing of the Native Minister, or of some one appointed by him in that behalf.

Prospectors going upon Native land without the consent of the owners are liable to the penalties imposed by the Acts relating to goldfields, and will forfeit all claim to reward.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office closed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 13th August, 1887.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Money Order and Savings Bank Office at

MATAMATA (Chief Office, Auckland)

has been closed as from the 23rd July ultimo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Specially-authorised Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 15th August, 1887.

THE Lyttelton United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, situated at Lyttelton is registered as a specially-authorised society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 15th day of August, 1887.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for a Simplex Telephone Enunciator.

FRANK OAKDEN, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Architect, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 27th 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 12th 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. 2470.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Automatic Apparatus for giving warning in case of Fire, to be called “Tronson’s Patent Automatic Electric Fire-alarm.”

FAIRLIE HAROLD TRONSON, of Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 27th 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 12th 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. 2471.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for converting any Table or other Knife into a perfect Tobacco-cutter.

EDWARD PERCY AMESBURY, D.D.S., of Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 27th 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 12th 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. 2472.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for the Solway Rabbit-poisoner.

DONALD DONALD, of Solway, Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 27th 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 12th 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. 2473.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Sewers, Drains, and Cesspools.

HARRY ROBERT NEWTON, of Thamesyde, Weybridge, Surrey, England, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 1st day of November 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 17th 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. 2474.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Electric Device for operating the Controlling-valve of Elevator Engines