July 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 797

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th July, 1888.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be opened at
MITITAI (Chief Office, Auckland),
from the 1st proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1888.

NO. 3118.—WILLIAM BLEE, of Brisbane, Queensland, Waiter, and EDWARD WELLS, of the same place, Waiter, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved check-till.

No. 3119.—HENRY DUTTON MELHUISH, of Spring Hill, New South Wales, Produce Merchant, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved double-acting horizontal bundle-press.

No. 3120.—HENRY DUTTON MELHUISH, of Spring Hill, New South Wales, Produce Merchant, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved bag-filler, to be used as an attachment to chaff-cutting and other machines.

No. 3122.—JOHN LANGFORD CRUMPE, of Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for lattice stays and surgical supports, &c., to be called “The Patent Latticean Stay.”

No. 3123.—ARTHUR GYON PURCHAS, of Auckland, New Zealand, Surgeon, and JOHN EDWARD FRIEND, of the same place, Engineer, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in hydro-carbon motors.

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 11th 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 26th day of November 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, 25th July, 1888.

NO. 3124.—ROBERT BOLE MORROW, of Newton Road, Auckland, New Zealand, Captain, late Imperial Army, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an adjustable door-hinge, to be called “The Union Door-hinge.”

No. 3125.—ROBERT BOLE MORROW, of Newton Road, Auckland, New Zealand, Captain, late Imperial Army, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for a wire clothes-peg, to be called “The President Clothes-peg.”

No. 3126.—JAMES MCCHESENEY, of Marton, New Zealand, Builder, and ARTHUR THOMAS WARNER COBHAM, of the same place, Cabinetmaker, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved sash-balance.

No. 3127.—HENRY JARRAT GILBERD, of Taradale, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Nurseryman, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved machine for sinking artesian wells and for driving piles.

No. 3128.—LEONARD POZZI, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Gunsmith, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements on Plimpton’s roller skates, to be termed “Pozzi’s Climax.”

And I have appointed Thursday, the 13th 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 28th day of November 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.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 7th February, 1888.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1889, the period of literature will be the age of Queen Anne, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s Henry IV. and Henry V., and Lamb’s Essays of Elia.

GEO. FISHER.

Native Land Court Notices.

Determination of Compensation.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 20th July, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Greytown, on Tuesday, the 21st day of August, 1888, for the purpose of ascertaining what amount of compensation ought to be paid to the Native owners of the land known as the Eketahuna Native Reserve, in respect of that portion of the said reserve taken under an Order in Council dated the 14th day of January, 1888, for the purpose of the Wellington-Napier Railway; and also for the purpose of ascertaining who are the persons entitled to be paid such compensation, and what land is affected by the said Order in Council.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE OF LAND TAKEN.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 16 acres 2 roods 30 perches, situate in the Mangaone Survey District, in the Provincial District of Wellington, as the said parcel is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 14774, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the said provincial district, and thereon coloured yellow.

Native Land Survey Fee unpaid, &c.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF GISBORNE.

NOTICE is hereby given that it has, under section 81 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” been certified to this Court that there had become owing to the 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 Gisborne on the 31st day of August, 1888, orders will, unless cause be then shown to the Court to the contrary, be made in favour of the said Surveyor, charging the estate and interest of the respective Native owners of the said land 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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Lands for Sale, Lease, &c.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 16th July, 1888.

THE following lands in the Hawke’s Bay Land District are for lease, license, and sale:—

LEASES OF SMALL AREAS, WITH PERPETUAL RIGHT OF RENEWAL.

The sections described hereunder will be open for application, at the Land Office, Gisborne, and at this office, on and after Tuesday, the 28th August, 1888:—

UAWA SUBURBAN.