Jan. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 51

I have appointed Thursday, the 26th day of April 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 such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 11th day of April next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to 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, 17th January, 1888.

No. 2745.—THOMAS CRAVEN, of Te Aroha, Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improvement in fire-bars, styled “Craven’s Improved Fluted Steam-boiler Fire-bars.”

No. 2746.—THOMAS MEREDITH SMITH, of Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for straining wire in wire fences and knotting and repairing same when broken, to be known as “Smith’s Self-knotting Wire-strainer.”

No. 2747.—JAMES DAVIES, of Wednesbury, in the County of Stafford, England, Mechanical Engineer and Ironfounder, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in meters for measuring water and gas, which are also applicable to pumps, blowers, exhausters, and engines.

No. 2748.—ALEXANDER SCHANSCHIEFF, of Gipsy Hill, in the County of Surrey, England, Electrician, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in galvanic batteries and in materials to be used therein.

No. 2749.—JOHN EDWARD HURDLEY, of Heathcote Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand, Signalman, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for a method of locking levers and locking and unlocking signals in a system of railway-signalling, whereby collisions of trains through carelessness or mistakes of signalmen are prevented, to be called “Hurdley’s Block Instruments and Signal-lever Locking Apparatus, combined, for working trains on single or double lines of railways.”

No. 2750.—JOSHUA CUFF, of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Barrister and Solicitor, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for milling gold-bearing quartz so that no quicksilver need be used in saving the gold; also for doing away with berdans or other unnecessary processes in saving gold, to be called “J. Cuff’s Flour of Quartz Mill and Gold-saving Apparatus.”

I have appointed Tuesday, the 1st day of May 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 such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 16th day of April next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said applications, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Goldfields Notices.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th January, 1888.

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

Richard Birch; Section 76, Block VII., Waitakere, Karamea Mining District. No. 1262.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 12th January, 1888.

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

No. 8230. Section 31, Block VII., Table Hill, Otago Mining District; Charles Thomson and others, for the Norwegian Company.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

Native Land Court Notices.

Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

IN the matter of a judgment of the Court given during a session advertised to be opened at Waiomatatini, in the said district, on the 15th day of January, 1885, and adjourned from time to time, upon the hearing of a claim for investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and known as Tututohora; and in the matter of the application of Mereaira Hinewara for a rehearing upon such claim:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, and in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby dismiss such application.

Dated this 14th day of January, 1888.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

IN the matter of a judgment of the Court given during a session advertised to be opened at Waiomatatini, in the said district, on the 15th day of January, 1885, and adjourned from time to time, upon the hearing of a claim for investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and known as Raukumara; and in the matter of the application of Mereaira Hinewara for a rehearing upon such claim:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, and in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby dismiss such application.

Dated this 14th day of January, 1888.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Survey Fees under “The Native Land Court Act, 1886.”

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

NOTICE is hereby given that it has, under section eighty-one of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” been certified to this Court that there had become owing to each certified Surveyor named in the first column in the Schedule herein the sum set opposite his name in the second column, by the Native owners of the land mentioned in the third column, for a survey of such land made by the said Surveyor.

SCHEDULE.

And further notice is hereby given that, at a sitting of the Court to be held at Awanui, on the 12th day of February, 1888, orders will, unless cause be then shown to the Court to the contrary, be made in favour of the said surveyors respectively, charging the estate and interest of the respective Native owners of the said lands with the whole or such part of the said cost of survey so made for them as the Court may deem fit.

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

Partition of Land under “The Native Land Court Act, 1886.”

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, to be held at Palmerston North, in the District of Wellington, on the 8th day of February, 1888, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column of the Schedule hereunder for the partition of the lands the name of which appears in the second column, and which are situate in the district named in the third column.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.