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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.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1888.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1890, the period of literature will be the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, and Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield.

GEO. FISHER.

Officiating Ministers for 1888.—Notice No. 29.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 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:—

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.

The Reverend James MacGregor, D.D.

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

Will accepted by the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1888.

In the matter of the will of Isaac Howell, late of Kiwitea, Farmer, deceased.

IT is hereby notified that the above will has been finally accepted, in accordance with the provisions of “The Public Trust Office Act, 1872,” and that the Public Trustee is the Executor appointed under the said will.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.

Orders for Payment of Public Moneys to Agents to be stamped.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 15th October, 1888.

THE Colonial Treasurer directs it to be notified for general information that orders for the payment of moneys to agents by cheque or otherwise are subject to a stamp duty of one penny under the provisions of “The Stamp Act, 1882;” and all public officers concerned in the payment of public moneys are hereby enjoined, on presentation of such orders and before payment, to see that they are duly stamped as required by law, unless where specially exempt.

JAMES C. GAVIN,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Property-tax.—“Property Assessment Act, 1885,” and its Amendments.

Wellington, 9th October, 1888.

IN accordance with the above Acts, public notice is hereby given that the thirtieth day of November next is the time, and my office, Government Buildings, Wellington, is the place, at which all persons in the colony are required to furnish statements of all real and personal property belonging to them in accordance with the said Acts.

J. SPERREY,
Property-tax Commissioner.

N.B.—Forms of statement will be delivered by Assessors as far as practicable, but, as the duty of procuring such forms is cast upon the public, no person is excused from neglecting to provide himself therewith. All persons, whether liable to taxation or not, are required to furnish statements.

Forms may be obtained from the Local Assessor, or at any Money Order Post Office.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1888.

NO. 3345.—WILLIAM HICKS, of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Coachbuilder, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for Hicks’s patent seat-shifter for two-wheeled vehicles.

No. 3347.—JACOB ELLIOTT, of Queen’s Road, Hastings, Sussex, England, Artificial Stone Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improvements in the manufacture of artificial stone-paving slabs, and slabs and blocks for building purposes.

No. 3349.—HERBERT COLLIER, of Wanganui, New Zealand, Music Seller, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for driving light machinery, to be called “The Patent Sand-motor.”

No. 3350.—THOMAS CHARLES HEMENT, of Christchurch, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for improved bath-fittings, to be called “Hement’s Combined Improved Bath-fittings.”

No. 3351.—WILLIAM HUNSLEY, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for a trussing machine used in the manufacture of kegs, styled “Hunsley’s Zealandia Trussing Machine.”

No. 3352.—GEORGE ASHCROFT, of Sydney, New South Wales, has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for an improved hydraulic railway-lift for use in hilly districts.

And I have appointed Wednesday, the 13th day of March 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 20th day of February 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.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

Notice of Hearing of Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1888.

PATENT for an invention for a new draught accelerator and smoke-consumer for steam-boilers.

MARIE AUGUSTIN DESPEISSIS, of Barkly Street, St. Kilda, Victoria, Sugar Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 15th day of January 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 31st day of December next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 3346.

Notice of Hearing of Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1888.

PATENT for an invention for improvements in the crushing and dressing of ore by dry process, and in appliances therefor.

WILLIAM HENRY RICHARDSON, of Thebarton, South Australia, Machinist, JOHN WHITE, of Alfred Chambers, Currie Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Agent, and DAVID HUTTON, of Alfred Chambers, aforesaid, Agent, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 23rd day of May 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 8th day of May next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Deputy Patent Officer.

No. 3348.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th November, 1888.

NO. 3353.—JOHN BROWN, of Auckland, New Zealand Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specifica-