MAR. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 399

2883.—WILLIAM ARCHIBALD MURRAY, of Auckland, New
Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for an improved fastening for bars, pipes, spars,
rods, and wires, specially useful for shanks of coulters, wheel-
fixing, and telegraph-poles cross-heads.

No. 2884.—WILLIAM ARCHIBALD MURRAY, of Auckland,
New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for improvements in gates.

No. 2885.—DANIEL BERNARD BATE, of Parnell, Auckland,
New Zealand, Practical Engineer and Millwright, has
deposited at this office a specification of an invention for the
Eureka bottle-machine.

No. 2886.—RICHARD THOMAS WEBB, of Greymouth, New
Zealand, Sawmiller, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of an invention for testing or prospecting auriferous
deposits, to be called "Webb's Patent Prospecting Pump."

And I have appointed Thursday, the 26th day of July 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 any such
Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 11th day of July
next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections
to any of the said applications, otherwise they will be pre-
cluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agencies opened
at Kirwee and Lincoln, Canterbury.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 26th March, 1888.

AGENCIES of the above department will be opened at
the

Post Offices, Kirwee and Lincoln, Canterbury,
as from the 3rd April, 1888.

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

Goldfield Notices.

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1888.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned
special claim cancelled, and that the ground is now open
for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever
been applied for:—

Charles Schwerer and others; Section 2, Block II., Wai-
takere, Karamea Mining District. No. 1095.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

Applications for Gold-mining Leases forfeited.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 24th March, 1888.

IT is hereby notified that the land described in the under-
mentioned applications for gold-mining leases is now
open to persons holding miners' rights or business licenses,
the leases having been cancelled:—

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Crown Lands Notices.

Auction of Runs, Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 12th March, 1888.

THE under-mentioned runs will be offered to be let by
public auction, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, on
Tuesday, the 24th day of April, 1888, at noon:—

PASTORAL LICENSES UNDER PART VI. OF "THE LAND
ACT, 1885."

| Survey | Locality. | Approximate | Term. | Upset |
| District. | | Area. | | Annual |
| | | | | Rental. |
| | | Acres. | | |
| Arapawa .. | Onapua Bay, | 1350 | 10 years | 1d. an acre. |
| | Tory Channel | | | |
| Clifford Bay | Opawa Flats | 550 | 7 ,, | £5. |

SMALL GRAZING RUNS UNDER PART VII. OF "THE LAND
ACT, 1885."

| Linkwater | Queen Charlotte Sound | 400† | 21 years | 3d. an acre. |
| Orieri .. | Tawhitinui Reach, Pelo- | 830† | 21 ,, | 3d. ,, |
| | rus Sound | | | |
| .. | Ditto .. | 870† | 21 ,, | 3d. ,, |

• Licensee to have boundaries surveyed at his own expense when-
  ever called upon to do so by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
  One half-year's rent and £1 1s. license fee must be paid on the fall
  of the hammer.

† Subject to modification of boundaries and areas after survey.
One half-year's rent and £1 1s. lease fee must be paid on the fall
of the hammer.

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands open to Application, Wellington Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of "The Land Act,
1885," that the sections of land enumerated below
will be open to application, on the systems and at the prices
noted in the Schedule, on and after Monday, 30th April, 1888.

SCHEDULE.

| Section. | Book | District. | Upset | Area | Total |
| | | | Price per | | Price. |
| | | | Acre. | | |

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

| 3 | I. | Kopuarangi ... | £ s. d. | A. R. P. | £. s. d. |
| | | | 1 0 0 | 114 0 0 | 114 0 0 |

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.—VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS.

| 1371 | ... | Bunnythorpe... | ... | 1 2 12 | 8 0 0 |

CASH.—HASTWELL VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

| 45 | XIV. | Mangaone ... | 5 0 0 | 4 3 30 | 24 13 9 |
| 46 | ,, | ,, ... | 4 10 0 | 4 3 39 | 22 9 8 |

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands

Sale of Leaseholds, Grey Coal Reserve.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 14th March, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leaseholds of the sec-
tions of land situated in the Grey Coal Reserve No.
274, and described in the Schedules A, B, and C, given below,
will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Railway
Goods Station, Brunnerton, on Wednesday, the 25th April,
at 2 o'clock p.m., subject to the rents and conditions here-
under set out.

Maps of the sections may be seen at the District Land
Office, Hokitika; the Public Works Office, Greymouth; and
the Railway Station, Brunnerton.

Terms of leaseholds enumerated on Schedules A, B, and
C, fourteen years, with the exceptions of Sections 65 and 66,
whose terms are ten years, and Section 742, and tramway
site, whose terms are seven years.

Right of re-entry reserved to Government for coal-mining
purposes only, at any time during the currency of the lease,
or at the termination thereof, by paying compensation for
improvements not exceeding £200.

In addition to those stated above, the leases will contain
the ordinary conditions of leases of that description, full
particulars of which will be given at sale.

Conditions of Sale.—The highest bidder (for rental or
bonus, as the case may be) to be the purchaser. The pur