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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 6th day of August next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to any of the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1888.

NO. 2936.—JAMES TYETH HART, of Wellington, New Zealand, Officer of Customs, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improvement in navigation, to be called and known as “Hart’s Course and Bearing Deviation Eliminator.”

No. 2937.—ARTHUR WEST and EDWARD WEST, of Helensville, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmers and General Woodworkers, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for smoothing or polishing articles of turned woodware, to be called “West’s Cylindrical Wood-polisher.”

No. 2938.—JOHN SHREWS TALBOT, of Auckland, New Zealand, Journalist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for more easily carrying military and sporting cartridges, to be called “Talbot’s Cartridge-carrier.”

No. 2939.—WALTER BROWN, of Farish Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for preparing and dressing the Phormium tenax, or New Zealand flax.

No. 2940.—AUGUSTUS GROSS, of Newcastle, New South Wales, Nautical Instrument Maker, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for electrical appliances for a mariners’ compass to give alarm upon deviation from the ship’s course.

No. 2941.—MATTHEW TAYLOR, of Lower Vincent Street, Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for the construction of window-blinds, to be called “The Hygeian Blind.”

And I have appointed Thursday, the 23rd day of August 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 8th day of August next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to any of the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1888.

NO. 2942.—WILLIAM HUNSLEY, of 27, Colombo Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for jointing cask-staves of any shape or size, to be called “Hunsley’s New Zealand Stave-jointer.”

No. 2943.—WILLIAM BURNLEY BUST, of Opho, Dunedin, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for a skein-holder, to be known as “Bust’s Patent Triangle Skein-holder.”

No. 2944.—HUGH LAMONT GREER, of Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand, Farm Labourer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for the Non-explosive Rabbit-exterminating Cartridge.

No. 2945.—ROBERT LAUCHLAN, of Austin Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Plumber and Tinsmith, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for flushing water-closets, to be named “The Simplex Pneumatic Water-cistern.”

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 28th day of August 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 13th day of August next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to any of the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

Notice of Hearing of Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1888.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Means and Apparatus for the Destruction of Noxious Animals, such as Rabbits.

WATKIN WYNNE, of Sydney, New South Wales, Journalist, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 30th day of October 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 15th day of October next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2931.

Notice of Hearing of Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1888.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Contrivance for husking Corn.

DAVID SIMPSON ROBERTS KIRKWOOD, of St. Leonards, near Sydney, New South Wales, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 30th day of October 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 15th day of October next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 2934.

Goldfields Notice.

Mineral Lease declared forfeited.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned mineral lease has been declared forfeited for non-execution, and that the ground is now open to applicants for a lease or license, or other interest which may lawfully be granted in the said ground, as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—

No. 42 (M.L.) William Todd, John Leiper Currie, and Albert Cassels, Section 82, Block II., Longwood District, containing 80 acres, in the Otago Mining District.

Given under my hand at Dunedin, this twenty-third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Third-class Rural Lands, Auckland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 6th April, 1888.

I HEREBY notify that the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Monday, the 28th May next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

The lands in the Tauranga and Whakatane Counties will be sold by auction, at Tauranga, on the same date.

S. PERCY SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

THIRD-CLASS LANDS.

BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.

Parish of Ruapekapeka.

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