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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 2

Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you
that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of
the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the
Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native
lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said
lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates
on or before the 19th January, 1889, such payment to be
made by you at the office of the local body in whose district
the lands affected are respectively comprised, and as noted
in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Local Body.
Horowhenua County Council
Maunu Road Board
Norsewood Road Board
Otamatea County Council
Oxford Road Board
Waipipi Road Board
Waitara West Road Board
Waiuku Road Board

Office of Local Body where
Payment is to be made.
Otaki.
Whangarei.
Norsewood.
Maungaturoto.
Oxford.
Waiuku.
Lepperton.
Waiuku.

As witness my hand this ninth day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
H. A. ATKINSON,
Colonial Treasurer.

Friendly Society, under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,"
this 7th day of January, 1889.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th January, 1889.

N O. 3465. - THOMAS THATCHER, of Fernham, Wanganui,
New Zealand, Grazier, has deposited at this office a
specification of an invention for improvements in river and
harbour training-walls and protection-works.

No. 3466. - RICHARD HARWOOD, of Foxton, Wellington,
New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for a horned-cattle curb, for preventing the
destruction of fences by horned cattle.

No. 3467. - EDWIN BARLOW, of Christchurch, New Zea-
land, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for an improved pad for inking indiarubber or
other stamps, styled "The Premier Indestructible Pad."

No. 3468. - JOHN WILKINS, of Auckland, New Zealand,
Surgeon, has deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for drawing teeth, to be called "Dr. Wilkins's
Quick and Easy Stump- and Tooth-extractor."

No. 3469. - ALFRED ANDREW LOCKWOOD, of Auckland,
New Zealand, Mine Manager, has deposited at this office a
specification of an invention for the extraction of gold,
silver, and other metals, to be called "Lockwood's Improved
Carbonated Hydrogen Furnace."

No. 3470. - JOHN BROWN EVANS, of Mabus, Cape of Good
Hope, South Africa, but temporarily of London, England,
Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for "Improvements in Apparatus for regulating
the Tension of Fencing-wires, and for testing the same."

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 30th 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 any
such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 15th day of
April 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 Intention to dissolve a Company.

In the matter of "The Companies Act, 1882."

I, ANDREW ROBY BLOXAM, Registrar of the Supreme
Court for the District of Christchurch, do hereby
notify that an affidavit, a copy of which is hereunder given,
by John Edwin Fountain and Thomas Napier, of the Horo-
rata Steam Threshing Company (Limited), has been lodged
in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Sheffield, and for-
warded to me, and that, unless notice of objection be lodged
with me within sixty days of this date, I shall proceed to
declare the said company to be dissolved in manner provided
by "The Companies Act, 1882."

A. R. BLOXAM,
Registrar.

Signed this 21st day of December, 1888.

[COPY.]

WE, John Edwin Fountain and Thomas Napier, of Horo-
rata, two of the Board of Directors of the Hororata Steam
Threshing Company (Limited), incorporated under the Act
of 1868, do hereby make oath and say that the nominal
capital of the company is £400, or twenty shares of £20
each; that the shares have been fully paid up; that the
company has no assets, and has ceased to carry on its
operations; and we do hereby apply for a declaration of dis-
solution of such company.

J. E. FOUNTAIN.
THOMAS NAPIER.

Sworn before me, this 5th day of December, 1888-Caleb
Whitefoord, Resident Magistrate.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 9th January, 1889.

N O. 3471. - WILLIAM DANTON SANDWELL, of Herne Hill,
Surrey, England, Electrical Engineer, has deposited
at this office a specification of an invention for improvements
relating to dynamo-electric machines and to electric motors,
and to means for carrying electrical batteries for driving such
motors when placed upon tramway vehicles or otherwise
arranged to be transported from place to place.

No. 3472. - JOHN BOWING, of 259, Gresham House, Old
Broad Street, in the City of London, England, Consulting
Chemist, has deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for improvements in the manufacture of fuel from
coal-slack and similar substances.

No. 3473. - SIGMUND SPITZER, of 13, Flinders Lane West,
Melbourne, Victoria, Civil Engineer, and FRIEDRICH WILLIAM
EBERHARD SANDER, of the same place, Gentleman, have de-
posited at this office a specification of an invention for an
improved process for, and relating to, the manufacture of
starch, and improvements in apparatus therefor.

No. 3474. - EDWARD WATERS, of No. 75, Chancery Lane,
Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent, has deposited at this
office a specification of an invention for improvements in
calculating-machines (being a communication from the
American Arithmometer Company, a corporation existing
under the laws of the State of Missouri, one of the United
States of America, and having its place of business in St.
Louis, in the said State of Missouri).

No. 3475. - JOHN HODGSON LEE, of Te Puke, Auckland,
New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for the Bungalow glass butter-jar.

No. 3476. - JOHN WILKIE, Mason, GEORGE MITCHELL,
Baker, and ROBERT WILLIAM RUTHERFORD, Photographer,
all of Dunedin, New Zealand, have deposited at this office a
specification of an invention for improving, by the use of
sulphur in combination with other elements, the method of
preparing skins and hides for tanning.

And I have appointed Wednesday, 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 any
such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 16th day of
April 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.

"Friendly Societies Act, 1882."-Cancelling of Registry.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 31st December, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly
Societies has, pursuant to section 10 of "The
Friendly Societies Act, 1882," by writing under his hand
dated this 31st day of December, 1888, cancelled the registry
of the Widow and Orphan Fund of the Wellington District
Ancient Order of Foresters, on the ground that the said
society has ceased to exist.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1889.

THE Otaki Lodge, situated at Otaki, is registered as a
branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of
New Zealand Friendly Society, under "The Friendly
Societies Act, 1882," this 5th day of January, 1889.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 7th January, 1889.

THE Danevirke Lodge, No. 6862, situated at Danevirke,
is registered as a branch of the Hawke's Bay District
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity,