JUNE 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 695

No. 3047.—JOSIAH CLIFTON FIRTH, of Auckland, New
Zealand, Miller, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for a new kind of food, to be called “Germina.”

No. 3048.—CHARLES HENRY MURRAY, of Auckland, New
Zealand, Stationer, has deposited at this office a specifi-
cation of an invention for converting an ordinary trunk or box
into a chest of drawers, to be called “Murray’s Combination
Trunk.”

No. 3049.—WILLIAM JAMES DALTON, of Auckland, New
Zealand, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of an invention for improved clothes pegs or fasteners,
to be called “Crumpe’s Duplex Safety Clothes-peg.”

And I have appointed Thursday, the 25th day of October
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 10th day of
October 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, 18th June, 1888.

NO. 3050.—ALBERT HENRY PARSMORE NOBLE, of 137,
Durham Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, has
deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an
improvement in roller-skates.

No. 3051.—ALFRED ANDREW LOCKWOOD, of Ohinemuri,
Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of an invention for the treatment of gold and silver
ores, to be known as “Lockwood’s Eureka Roasting Fur-
nace.”

No. 3052.—WALTER WHITFIELD BOSTWICK, of London,
England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification
of an invention for improvements in folding or collapsible
gates, shutters, or window-guards, and the like.

No. 3053.—HUGH REID, of Derby, England, Signal-fitter,
has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for
improvements in interlocking apparatus for railway-point-
and signal-levers.

No. 3054.—JOHN CLARK LASCELLES, Joiner, and WILLIAM
CHARLES CRUMP, Medical Electrician and Herbalist, both of
Sydney, New South Wales, have deposited at this office a
specification of an invention for improvements in rinks or
floors for exercise and amusement.

No. 3055.—JOHN MARTIN, of Daylesford, Victoria, Cordial
Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for improvements in and relating to ships’
matresses, to enable them to be converted into a collapsible
boat.

And I have appointed Thursday, the 1st day of November
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 17th day of October
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.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th June, 1888.

NO. 3056.—LEONARD STOWE, of Wellington, New Zea-
land, has deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for branding bales and other soft goods and sacks,
to be called “Stowe’s Quick Branding Machine.”

No. 3057.—FRANCIS ANTONIO BURDETT STUART, of Ash-
burton Forks, Canterbury, New Zealand, has deposited at
this office a specification of an invention for Stuart’s patent
knife for the cutting of flax and general pruning purposes.

No. 3058.—WILLIAM JAMES PALLANT, of Wellington, New
Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an in-
vention for an improved toe- and half-heel-plate, to be called
“The Feather-edged Silent Toe- and Heel-plates.”

No. 3059.—RICHARD MIDDLETON SIMPSON, of Wellington,
New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for an improved rotary pump.

No. 3060.—CHARLES JEFFS, of Dairy Flat, Auckland, New
Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an in-
vention for healing wounds, sores, &c., to be called “Jeffs’s
Patent Purificative Ointment.”

No. 3062.—CHARLES ROBERTSON, of Myrtle Street, St.
Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, Engineer, has depo-
sited at this office a specification of an invention for improve-
ments in the method of and apparatus for dredging, excavat-
ing, and raising mud, sand, gravel, and other matters of a

viscous or granular nature, for use in sinking caissons and in
gold-slucing operations, and for analogous purposes.

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 6th day of November
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 22nd day of
October 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 Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th June, 1888.

PATENT for an invention for improvements in apparatus
for measuring electric currents, being a communica-
tion from HERMAN ARON, of Berlin, Prussia, Doctor of
Philosophy.

GUSTAV ARON, of Melbourne, Victoria, Commercial
Traveller, has deposited at this office a specification of the
said invention; 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 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 3rd day of December next, at this office, particu-
lars 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. 3061.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 25th May, 1888.

CROWN lands sale, by auction, at the Crown Lands
Office, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 26th June, 1888, at
noon.

TOWNSHIPS.

Town Sections in Glenorchy, Kurow, and Ophir; upset
price, £30 per acre.

Suburban Sections 2 to 6, Block VIII., and 1 to 9, Block
IX., 1 acre each, Dunkeld; upset price, £4 10s. per acre.
Sections 18 to 23, Block VII., Kelso, from 1 to 9 acres each;
upset price, £3 per acre. Sections 5 and 7 to 23, Block XV.,
Sutton District, from 8 to 22 acres each; upset price, £3
per acre. Sections 6 to 9 and 10 to 13, Block IV., Waikou-
aiti, ½ acre each; upset price, £3 per acre.

SMALL GRAZING RUNS.

BENGER DISTRICT.—Sections 7, 10, 11 (grouped), Block
XIII., 810 acres; upset annual rental, at 6d. per acre, £20 5s.

KUROW DISTRICT.—(Subdivision of Run No. 23) No. 6 of
23, about 7,212 acres; upset annual rental, at 3d. per acre,
£90 3s.; improvements, £109.

PARTICULARS.—Term of lease, twenty-one years. Pur-
chasers must deposit on sale the required statutory declara-
tion, and pay the first half-year’s rent, with lease and
registration-fee. Valuation for improvements payable within
fourteen days after purchase.

PASTORAL LICENSES.

Run No. 14, about 18,800 acres, Earnslaw District, four-
teen years; upset rental, £30 per annum.

Run No. 19, about 33,500 acres, Earnslaw District, four-
teen years; upset rental, £20 per annum.

Run No. 346, about 14,300 acres, Glenorchy District, four-
teen years; upset rental, £20 per annum.

Run No. 346b, about 16,000 acres, Glenorchy District, four-
teen years; upset rental, £25 per annum.

Run No. 217B, about 17,170 acres, Waihemo District, ten
years; upset rental, £150 per annum.

Run No. 419, about 10,900 acres, Kinloch District, four-
teen years; upset rental, £10 per annum.

NOTE.—Possession on day of sale, except Runs Nos. 217B
and 419, which will not be given till the 1st March, 1889.
The upset rentals have been considerably reduced.

The licenses of the foregoing runs will be sold subject to
the provisions contained in “The Land Act, 1885,” and
“The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887.”

Further particulars can be obtained on application to the
Crown Lands Office, Dunedin.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.