Aug. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1105

JAMES TYETH HART, of Wellington, New Zealand, Officer of Customs, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 20th 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 5th 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. 2484.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for a Wool- or Hop-press, to be called “The Canterbury Wool-press.”

JAMES ELLIOT THOMSON, of Christchurch, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 8th 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 24th 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. 2485.

Te Makarini Scholarships.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships is open to all Maoris that have attended a Native school during the previous year, and are under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other two scholarships are open to all Maoris that are under thirteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination, and that have attended a Native village school for the previous twelve months. These scholarships are offered for competition to Maori youths, on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1886. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 19th and 20th December, 1887.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 9th August, 1887.

Goldfields Notices.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 15th August, 1887.

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:—

Thomas Neill, John Douglas, Charles McLean, James McQueen, John Guthrie; Section 2, Block II., Waitakere, Karamea Mining District; 8 acres 2 roods 8 perches. No. 974.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-mining Leases.—Notice of Withdrawal of Applications.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 8th August, 1887.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned applications for gold-mining leases have been withdrawn, and that the ground is now open for application as if leases of the same had never been applied for, viz.:—

Date of application: 23rd June, 1886. Names of applicants: William Brandon and party (for Annandale Gold-mining Company). Area: 16 acres 2 roods. District: Mokihinui.

Date of application: 10th September, 1886. Name of applicant: The Great Republic Gold-mining Company (Limited). Area: 16 acres 2 roods. District: Waimangaroa.

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

Native Land Court Notices.

Amounts owing for Survey of Native Lands.

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
GISBORNE DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given that it has, under section eighty-one of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” been certified to this Court that there had become owing to the Certified Surveyor named in the first column in the Schedule herein the sum set opposite his name in the second column, by the Native owners of the land mentioned in the third column, for a survey of such land made by the said Surveyor.

SCHEDULE.