Oct. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1305

Thursday, the 12th day of January 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 December 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. 2574.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Manley's Asphalt Top-
dresser.

WILLIAM BARRON MANLEY, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zea-
land, Contractor, has deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 12th
day of January 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 December 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. 2575.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 10th October, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for a Produce-preserve.

ROBERT FERDINAND LÖFFLER, of Nelson Street, Auck-
land, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday,
the 12th day of January next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon,
at this office, to hear the said application and all objec-
tions thereto; and I require all persons having an interest
in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on
before the 28th day of December next, at this office, par-
ticulars in writing of their objections to the said applica-
tion, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 2576.

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 them-
selves 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 insti-
tutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secre-
tary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 9th August, 1887.

Native Land Court Notices.

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

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 30th September, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court
to be held at New Plymouth, in the Land Court
District of Whanganui, on the 3rd day of November next,
will be heard the applications of the persons whose names
appear in the first column of the Schedule hereunder for
the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised in the Crown
grants of the pieces of land the names of which appear in
the second column, situate in the districts named in the
third column.

ELWIN B. DICKSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.