Mar. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 305

Abolishing Sittings of District Court at Patea.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by “The District Courts Act, 1858,” and of every other power and authority in this behalf enabling him, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby abolish, as from the day of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the sittings at Patea of the District Court of Taranaki, as previously fixed and appointed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

Thos. FERGUS.

Supreme Court Offices appointed under “The Mining Companies Act, 1886.”

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section four of “The Mining Companies Act, 1886” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and of all other powers and authorities vested in me in that behalf, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Supreme Court Offices at the several places mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be the Registrars’ Offices for the purposes of Part I. of the said Act for the Supreme Court Districts set opposite the names of such places respectively in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

Thos. FERGUS.

Governors of New Zealand Institute appointed.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by “The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867,” provision is made for the appointment of members of a Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, and it is enacted that, on the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and on the first day of November in each succeeding year, three members of the said Board of Governors shall retire from office, but shall be eligible for reappointment: And whereas William Thomas Locke Travers, Esquire, the Venerable Archdeacon Arthur Stock, and Thomas Mason, Esquire, three of the members of the said Board of Governors, have retired from office, and are eligible for reappointment under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas by the said Act it is also provided that, on the annual retirement of the said three members, the successors of such retiring members shall be appointed by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me by the said Act, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM THOMAS LOCKE TRAVERS, Esquire,
The Venerable Archdeacon ARTHUR STOCK, B.A., and
THOMAS MASON, Esquire,

to be Governors of the institution called the New Zealand Institute.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

T. W. HISLOP.

Trustee appointed for the Waipukurau Cemetery.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

PETER GOW

to be a Trustee, in the place of Henry Wilding, who has left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waipukurau Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons appointed by warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor on the twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Trustees appointed for the Maintenance of the Apiti Public Cemetery.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the forty-fifth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the local authority specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1888.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in the Manufacture of Telegraph Poles, Columns, Pillars, Flagstaffs, Signal-posts for Railways, Fence-posts and other Posts, Rolls or Rollers for various Purposes, Pipes or Tubes for containing Telegraph Wires, Railway-sleepers, Pillar Letter-boxes, Urinals, Chimney-pieces; Slabs for Use in the Construction of Urinals and Chimney-pieces, and for Pavements and Stair Treads and for other Uses; Tiles and Slabs for roofing Sewer Grids or Gratings and other Gratings, Cellar-plates, Wheels, Pulleys, Sheaves for Pulley-blocks, Deadeyes, Buckets, Coal-boxes, and Cocks or Taps (being a communication from DAVID WILSON, of Millwood House, Grays, Essex, England, Manager of Cement Works).

WILLIAM HARPER, of No. 37, Flinders Lane West, Melbourne, Victoria, Merchant, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; 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 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 May 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. 2826.