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the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 26th 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 11th day of January 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. 2596.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for suspending and preventing Rattle of Railway and Tram-car Windows, to be called “The Reliance Automatic Window-cramp.”

HENRY ABEL FLATMAN, Engineer, and JAMES SEED, Rope-maker, both of Southbrook, Ashley, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 26th 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 11th day of January 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. 2597.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for catching Rats or Mice, to be called “The Self-setter.”

GEORGE IRVING, of Whangaroa North, Auckland, New Zealand, Saw Doctor, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 26th 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 11th day of January 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. 2598.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Coles’s Patent Roller Skate-check.

WALTER COLE, of Adelaide Road, Wellington, New Zealand, Architect, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 26th 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 11th day of January 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. 2599.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in Chaff-cutters.

HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, of Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer, and WILLIAM ANDREWS and ARTHUR WARD BEAVEN, of Christchurch, Canterbury aforesaid, Engineers, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 26th 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 11th day of January 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. 2600.

Native Land Court Notices.

Application for Rehearing of Claim granted.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a session advertised to be opened at Cambridge, in the said district, on the 15th day of February, 1887, upon the hearing of claims for the partition of land situate in the said district and known as Puahue; and in the matter of the several applications made to this Court, in writing, within three months after such decision was given, by Natives thinking themselves aggrieved thereby, for a rehearing upon the aforesaid claims:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby order that a rehearing upon such claims be had upon the question of title on partition to the part of the land, the subject of the said decision, as is thereby named Puahue 1r, and upon such part of the said decision as awarded Puahue 1r to Robert Stannet Barlow; and that such rehearing be had at a sitting of the Court to be holden at Cambridge, on the 29th day of November, 1887,

Dated at Auckland, this 13th day of October, 1887.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Sitting of Native Land Court adjourned.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 26th October, 1887.

THE adjourned sitting of the Native Land Court, fixed to be holden at Hastings or Waipawa, in the District of Hawke’s Bay, on the seventh day of November next, is hereby postponed until further notice.

By order of the Chief Judge.

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

Goldfields Notice.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd October, 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:—

The Gallant Tipperary Quartz-mining Company (Limited); Section 6, Block XI., 15 acres 2 roods 34 perches, Skipper’s Creek, Otago Mining District. No. 641c.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

Crown Lands Notices.

Runs liable to Forfeiture.—Notice to Occupiers.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 24th October, 1887.

IN pursuance of clause 188 of “The Land Act, 1885,” I hereby give notice that the runs mentioned in the Schedule hereto will be declared forfeited if the respective rents, together with the penalty for non-payment at due date, are not paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Christchurch, within three months of the date of this notice.

SCHEDULE.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.