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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

RICHARD MAXTED, Blacksmith, and WILLIAM WHIDDEN HOLFORD, Engineer, of the firm of MAXTED AND HOLFORD, both of Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th 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 14th day of November next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2524.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Slide for Cross-head of Steam, Marine, Stationary, or Locomotive Engines, to be called “Holford’s Patent Roller-slide.”

RICHARD MAXTED, Blacksmith, and WILLIAM WHIDDEN HOLFORD, Engineer, of the firm of MAXTED AND HOLFORD, both of Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th 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 14th day of November next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2525.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for automatically draining the Condensed Water from Steam-pipes.

JABEZ HAY, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th 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 14th day of November next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2526.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Dry-earth Closets.

GEORGE MASSEY, of Bond Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Consulting Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th 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 14th day of November next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2527.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in Electrical Secondary Batteries.

CHARLES EMILE PONDER, of Enmore, near Sydney, New South Wales, Electrician, and JOHN MACGREGOR and PHILIP HARRIS, both of Sydney aforesaid, Ironmongers and Manufacturers, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 1st day of December 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 16th day of November next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2528.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Railway-sleepers, being a communication from EDWARD SCHMIDT, of Zimmersrode, in the Kingdom of Prussia.

CARL WAGEMANN, of No. 5, Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Consulting Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 15th day of May 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 30th 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2529.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for straining Wire.

REGINALD BAYLEY, of New Plymouth, New Zealand, Draftsman, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 1st day of December 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 16th day of November next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2530.

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, 31st 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:—

No. 6. Charles Walter Nicholls, for the Moa Company; 16 acres 2 roods, Mathias District, Canterbury.

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