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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Notice of hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1888.

NO. 2810.—HENRY AITKEN, of Falkirk, in the County of Stirling, North Britain, Mining Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in preserving timber and in rendering pipes and pipe-joints, walls, and the like impervious to liquids, damp, or acid, and in apparatus to be used therefor, which apparatus may also be applied for the coating of metallic surfaces with tar or compounds of tar and other substances.

No. 2811.—WILLIAM CRAIG, of 222, Crown Street, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, New South Wales, Miner, and WILLIAM BURNS, of Auburn, near Sydney aforesaid, Shipwright, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in decoy traps for rabbits and similar animals.

No. 2812.—EDWARD BEAUCHAMP SINGLETON MERCER, of Brighton Road, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Photographic Artist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for the use of wooden mounts for photographs, pictures, or ferns, in lieu of cardboard, as at present used, to be called “The Patent Rakau Mounts.”

No. 2813.—PERCIVAL EVERITT, of London, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in completing electric circuits, and in apparatus embodying such improvements.

No. 2814.—PERCIVAL EVERITT, of London, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in or applicable to apparatus for indicating the force of a blow.

No. 2815.—PERCIVAL EVERITT, of London, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in machines for testing muscular power.

And I have appointed Thursday, the 7th day of June next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said applications 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 23rd day of May next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Notice of hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st February, 1888.

NO. 2816.—Sir HENRY ST. JOHN HALFORD, Baronet, C.B., of Wistow, England, Colonel, and WILLIAM ELLIS METFORD, of Redland, Bristol, England, Civil Engineer, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in the manufacture of projectiles for firearms.

No. 2817.—WILLIAM WEBSTER, Jun., of 50, Lee Park, Lee, in the County of Kent, England, Electrician, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in the treatment of sewage and other impure liquids and water for the purification thereof, and for obtaining products therefrom, and in apparatus for these purposes.

No. 2818.—EDWARD WATERS, of Molesworth Chambers, 75, Chancery Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in autographic telegraphs, being a communication from the Writing Telegraph Company (Incorporated) of New York, United States of America.

No. 2819.—SAMUEL PHILLIPS, Photographer, and ADAM STEPHAN, Lithographic Printer, both of Sydney, New South Wales, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in photo-lithography, photo-engraving, and other photo-illustrative processes.

No. 2820.—WILLIAM HENRY JAMES RASELL, of Caversham, Otago, New Zealand, Wheelwright, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved adjustable seed-sower and coverer.

No. 2821.—MARK SAUNDERS, of Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for separating grass-seed from the hay and refuse, to be called the combined grass-seed stripper and dresser.

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 12th day of June next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said applications 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 May next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Notice of hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1888.

NO. 2822.—CHRISTIAN MEYER, of Marton, New Zealand, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved washing and scouring compound.

No. 2823.—EDWARD PURSER, of Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for the protection of lifeboats at sea.

No. 2824.—THOMAS MASON CHAMBERS, of Taurao, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Sheepfarmer, and FREDERICK COOK, of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay aforesaid, Builder, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved wool-press.

No. 2825.—JOHN INGLIS WRIGHT, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Stationer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for the protection of cheques, receipt forms, and forms of a similar nature from forgery.

And I have appointed Thursday, the 14th day of June next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said applications 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 May next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Officiating Ministers for 1888.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1888.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England

The Reverend Henry Bache Harvey, B.A.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Thomas Kehoe.

[The above-mentioned name is published in substitution for the name “James Kehoe,” in Notice No. 1, of the 17th January.]

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.

The Reverend Michael Watt.

Baptists.

The Reverend Thomas Spurgeon.

Church of Christ.

Edmund Harvey Taylor.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1888.

THE Rose of Palmerston Lodge, No. 215, of the United Ancient Order of Druids, situated at Palmerston South, is registered as a friendly society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 20th day of February, 1888.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1888.

THE Onward Division, situated at Papanui, is registered as a branch of the Grand Division of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance of Australasia Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 20th day of February, 1888.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Fixing a Sitting of the Supreme Court in the Wellington Judicial District.

WE, three Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in us by “The Supreme Court Act, 1882,” hereby make the following rule respecting the place and times for holding sittings of the Supreme Court in the Judicial District of Wellington:—