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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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5. No prospecting will be allowed upon Native land with-
   out 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.

Alterations in the Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges in
force on the New Zealand Railways.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers conferred by "The
Government Railways Act, 1887," do hereby make the
following alterations in the scale of fares, rates, and charges
on the New Zealand railways, to come into force on and
after the 8th April, 1889:-

PART I.-PASSENGERS.
LOCAL FARES AND REGULATION.
Napier and Wellington Sections.

Tickets will be available on the day of issue and on the
following day only.

PART IV.-LOCAL RATES.
Auckland Section.
Timber from Hunua to Auckland or Newmarket will be
charged 1s. per 100 superficial feet.

PART V.- CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.
Flax, native, dressed, screw-pressed. Other- Class E.
wise, rate and a half
The common seal of the New Zealand
Railway Commissioners was hereunto
affixed, this twenty-sixth day of (L.S.)
March, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine, in the presence of
JAMES MCKERROW, Chairman.
J. P. MAXWELL, Commissioners.
W. M. HANNAY, J

Officiating Ministers for 1889.-Notice No. 8.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1889.
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 Offi-
ciating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information: --
Congregational Independents.
The Reverend H. M. Livens.
Baptists.
The Reverend Thomas Wagstaff.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Native Assessors elected.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th March, 1889.
NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hands
of the respective Returning Officers, that the under-
mentioned persons have been elected to be the Native Asses-
sors for the Native licensing districts set opposite their names
respectively:-
WIROPI HOTERENE TAIPARI Kirikiri.
HIRA TE POPO Waioeka.
HEMI KOKIRI Omatawa.
TIERE TIKAO Omatawa.
TI WAATA RANGIKOTUA Omatawa.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Under-Secretary.

Notice of Hearing of Application for a Patent.
Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1889.
NO 3603. -WILLIAM JOHN MARSHALL, Boilermaker, and
JAMES FORD, Tailor, both of Newcastle, New South
Wales, have deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for improvements in the fastening of tubes such as
steam boiler-tubes in their tube-plates.
And I have appointed Wednesday, the 21st day of August
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 6th day of
August next, at this office, particulars in writing of their
objections to the said application, 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, 23rd March, 1889.
NO. 3605. -ROBERT EDWARD EVENDEN, of 4, Lambton
Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, has deposited at this
office a specification of an invention for a new or improved
apparatus for washing and separating gold and some other
minerals and substances.
And I have appointed Friday, the 31st 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 16th 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.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.
Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1889.
NO. 3604. -TOTTENHAM LEE RICHARDSON, of Murra-
woombie, near Nyngen, New South Wales, Grazier,
has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for
improvements in sheep-shearing machines and in flexible
shaft-connections therefor, and for other purposes.
No. 3606. -EDWARD METCALF SMITH, of New Plymouth,
Taranaki, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this
office a specification of an invention for certain improve-
ments in the manufacture of artificial or compound ores of
iron, by the combination of magnetic ironsand with other
materials, into bricks or blocks of any desired form suitable
for smelting in an ordinary blast furnace, and the use of
such ores for that purpose.
No. 3607. -WILLIAM BUTLER and JOSEPH BUTLER, of
Greymouth, New Zealand, Contractors, have deposited at
this office a specification of an invention called "Butlers'
Archimedean Valve."
And I have appointed Tuesday, the 18th day of June
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 3rd day of June
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.

Government Life Insurance Department.-Agency opened at
Eketahuna.
Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 20th March, 1889.
AN agency of the above department will be opened at
the
POST OFFICE, EKETAHUNA,
as from the 1st April, 1889.
D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

Friendly Society registered.
Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1889.
THE Auckland Caledonian Society, situated at Auck-
land, is registered under section 7, subsection 4, of
"The Friendly Societies Act, 1882," this 21st day of March,
1889.
EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.