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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

Reward of £10,000 offered, for the Discovery of New Gold-fields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1888.

REWARDS of £10,000 are offered for the discovery of new goldfields, upon the amended conditions set forth hereunder.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. The maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved discovery of a new goldfield in accordance with these conditions is £5,000 for the North Island, and £5,000 for the Middle Island.

2. The newly-discovered goldfield must be situated not less than forty miles from any existing goldfield or any existing workings.

3. No reward shall be payable until 50,000 ounces of gold have been produced from the newly-discovered goldfield within three years from the date of its being registered.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being desirous of obtaining the reward, shall immediately forward a written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to the Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within which such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or Resident Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an application for reward.

5. No prospecting will be allowed upon Native land without a prospecting license authorising the person therein named, with the consent of the owner of the land, to prospect, in accordance with the provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-five to one hundred and thirty-seven of “The Mining Act, 1886,” inclusive.

No reward shall be paid for any discovery that may be made upon Native land without the consent of the Native owners and the approval of the Minister of Mines.

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department (Commissioner’s Office),
Wellington, 1st May, 1888.

THE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now in possession of the police, at the stations named, will, unless previously claimed, be sold by public auction, at the respective Police Offices, on Saturday, the 26th instant, at noon, in accordance with the Police Regulations.

Auckland: Two revolvers and cartridges, one double- and one single-barrelled gun, piccolo, tweed coat, two dresses, and sundries.

Napier: Silver lever hunting watch, No. 3238; two gold rings, gold brooch, gold-plated locket, silver bracelet, nickel-silver revolver, saddle, and sundries.

Gisborne: Two gold keeper-rings, black-silk bag, pair reins, double-barrelled gun, and sundries.

Wanganui: Silver Geneva watch, No. 74912; jet brooch, silver bracelet, gold and cornelian brooch, two gold rings, and sundries.

Wellington: Two umbrellas, parcel of dress material, and sundries.

Nelson: Silver Geneva watch, three rings, bridle, and sundries.

Blenheim: Pair of blankets and sundry articles of clothing.

Invercargill: Greenstone pendant, shawl, spade, and sundries.

Dunedin: Metal watch, No. 28194, and steel chain; silver snuff-box, earring, breast-pin, four umbrellas, parcel of calico, and sundries.

Clyde: Silver lever open-faced watch with silver dial and gilt numerals, No. 6553.

W. E. GUDGEON,
Commissioner of Police.

Officiating Ministers for 1888.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

United Methodist Free Churches.

The Reverend Job Benning.

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

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 10th May, 1888.

NO. 2978.—MORITZ MICHAELIS and FREDERICK DAVID MICHAELIS, both of Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Leather Merchants, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved burning ink.

No. 2979.—MORITZ MICHAELIS and FREDERICK DAVID MICHAELIS, both of Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Leather Merchants, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved dressing blacking.

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of December 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 3rd day of December 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.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1888.

NO. 2973.—HENRY SMITHIES, of Mornington, Otago, New Zealand, Gardener, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for the better raising and extinguishing fires in grates, to be named “The Improved Fire-raiser and Damper.”

No. 2974.—ADA FRANCES COLE, of Railway Street, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Machinist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improvement in appliances suitable for driven wells.

No. 2975.—AMOS HERBERT HOBSON, of 5, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster, England, Analytical Chemist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in the treatment of bones and animal waste or refuse generally, for the purpose of rendering the same more suited for fertilising purposes, and for obtaining gelatine, glue, and size.

No. 2976.—JOHN CAMPBELL, of Edinburgh, Scotland, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in a new or improved sheep-dipping composition.

No. 2977.—WILLIAM DUNSMORE BOHM, of Acton, Middlesex, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved process and apparatus for the expulsion of noxious gases from liquids which may hold them in mechanical solution.

No. 2980.—JAMES RANDALL GASCOIGNE, of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for Gascoigne’s I.X.L. hedge-clipping and pruning shears.

And I have appointed Thursday, the 13th day of September 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 29th 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.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1888.

NO. 2981.—WILLIAM THOMAS BARNSDALE, Jun., Fireman, and WILLIAM HICKS, Tallow and Manure Manufacturer, both of Auckland, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for desiccating blood-manure, to be called “Barnsdale and Hicks’s Desiccated Blood-manure, and Process of Manufacturing.”

No. 2982.—EDWARD JONES, of Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for a trap or contrivance, to be called “Jones’s Canadian Trap.”

No. 2983.—THOMAS WILLIAM MAYSON, of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, Draughtsman, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for range-finding, to be called “Mayson’s Automatic Range-finder.”

No. 2984.—JAMES BROWN, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Accountant, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for sifting sand, clay, and other material for gold-washing purposes, to be called “Brown’s Patent Dredge and Gold-washing Machine Combined.”

No. 2985.—HUGH LAING MAINLAND, of Burke’s, near Dunedin, New Zealand, Builder, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for tightening wire fences or