Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 833

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.

Member of the House of Representatives for Ashley elected.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1888.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued by him on the 6th day of July, 1888, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the electoral district hereinafter specified, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that the under-mentioned gentleman has been duly elected Member for such district, viz.:

For the District of Ashley.
JOHN MILES VERRALL,
G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Officiating Ministers for 1888.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of Christ.
The Reverend J. W. Shepherd.

Salvation Army.
Peter Lovelock, commonly known as Major Lovelock.
Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Name erased from Medical Register.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1888.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of section 21 of “The Medical Practitioners Registration Act, 1869,” that the name of Reginald Henry Kemp Bennett, Lic. and Lic. Med. R. Coll. Surg. Irel., has this day been erased from the Medical Register of the Colony of New Zealand, in consequence of the conviction of the said Reginald Henry Kemp Bennett, on the 13th March, 1880, in New South Wales, for having committed a felony.

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

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th July, 1888.

NO. 3129.—SEYMOUR REGINALD BOLTON, of Christchurch, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for economizing or saving fuel, to be called “The Reginald Patent Self-acting Cinder-sifter and Fuel-economizer.”

No. 3130.—HENRY DENT GARDINER, of Purau, Canterbury, New Zealand, Stockowner, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improvement in disc-rollers, by means of a combination of two spindles carrying discs.

No. 3131.—HENRY RYAN LEWIS, of London, England, Mining Engineer and Metallurgist, and CHARLES BERRY PHILLIPS, of Chester, England, Gentleman, have deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements relating to the extraction of metals from refractory, complex, and other ores.

No. 3132.—HERMANN SCHOENEWEG, of Dudweiler, in the German Empire, Chemist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in explosive compounds.

No. 3133.—HERMANN SCHOENEWEG, of Dudweiler, in the German Empire, Chemist, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in explosive compounds and safety-cartridges for blasting purposes.

No. 3134.—DAVID REID, of No. 112, Flinders Lane East, Melbourne, Victoria, Publisher, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved means for securing stereotype-plates to their base-blocks.

And I have appointed Thursday, the 20th 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 5th 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, 31st July, 1888.

NO. 3135.—ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Clothier, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for obviating the difficulty of fastening men’s shirts by fastening the same at the side in lieu of the front or back.

No. 3136.—HENRY HUGHES, of Wellington, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for cheese-rennet powder and cheese-rennet pastils, and the method of their preparation, which invention has been communicated from abroad by Sophus Carl Christian von Barnekow, of Sweden, Manufacturer.

No. 3137.—HENRY ALLOTT, of Styx, Canterbury, New Zealand, Labourer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an apparatus for loading drays with sacks of grain or other produce, styled “Allott’s Dray-loader.”

No. 3138.—ALBERT GUNDERSEN, of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an electric tell-tale clock.

No. 3139.—DAVID JOHN GOODWIN, of Waitara, Taranaki, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for Goodwin’s patent rotary churn.

3140. ARTHUR JOHN CUMING, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Printer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for a T vernier sight for rifles, carbines, cannons, or any rapid-firing guns, styled “Cuming’s T Vernier Sight.”

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 8th day of January 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 24th 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.

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:—

UA WA SUBURBAN.