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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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NOTE. "Not otherwise enumerated" appears as n.o.e.; "other
kinds" as o.k. Articles marked * are revised decisions.

Articles and how classed.
Rate of Duty.
Beer-aërating machine, as soda-water
machine
Free.
Blackboards for schools, as school apparatus
"
Calico and flax sheeting cut into lengths for
bags, as bagging n.o.e.
15 per cent.
Catalogues and price-lists in book form, as
printed books
Free.
Gutta-percha solution, as n.o.e.
"
Japanned and lacquered metal ware, to include
only goods made up from black, tinned, or
galvanised sheet-iron, or from tin, and fin-
ished in japan or lacquer
25 per cent.
Kegs for sheep-dip, as n.o.e.
Free.
Paper-perforating machine, as printing ma-
chinery
"
Paper gelatine bromide, as photographic
goods
20 per cent.
Pictorial calendars having the word "Speci-
men" printed across the face
Free.
Telescopes, as fancy goods
20 per cent.
Toothache pencil, as patent or proprietary
medicines
25 per cent.

By Commissioner's Order No. 330.
H. S. McKELLAR,
Secretary and Inspector.

Will accepted by the Public Trustee.
Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 10th May, 1889.

In the matter of the will of Margaret Thomas, late of
Wellington, deceased.

T 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.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.
Patent Office,
Wellington, 10th May, 1889.

No. 3669.-BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, of 4, Lambton Quay,
Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at
this office a specification of an invention for an improved
lead-headed nail for corrugated metal.

No. 3670.-HENRY HUGHES, of 4, Lambton Quay, Welling-
ton, New Zealand, Patent Agent, has deposited at this office
a specification of an invention for an improved article of
food or concentrated jelly (being a communication from the
inventor, Walter Robertson, of Chelsea, Middlesex, England,
Gentleman).

No. 3671.-WILLIAM GEORGE QUICKE, of Eye Street, In-
vercargill, New Zealand, Carpenter, has deposited at this
office a specification of an invention for improvements in
Quicke's Patent Sack-truck and Lift.

No. 3672.-MICHAEL WILLIS FERGUSSON, of Collins Street,
Melbourne, Victoria, Stationer, has deposited at this office a
specification of an invention for an improved apparatus for
holding and cutting rolls of paper (being a communication
from Sabins, Robins, and Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
United States of America).

No. 3673.-MICHAEL WILLIS FERGUSSON, of Collins Street,
Melbourne, Victoria, Stationer, has deposited at this office a
specification of an invention for an improved apparatus for
holding and cutting rolls of paper (being a communication
from A. Q. Ross, of the firm of A. St. Clair Ross and Com-
pany, of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America).

No. 3674.-ROBERT WOOLLEY GIBBS, of Maitai Valley,
Nelson, New Zealand, Cordage Factor, has deposited at this
office a specification of an invention for an improved mattrass
and bed-tick and sofa-squab, called "The Paragon Mattrass."

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 16th day of July
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 1st day of July
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.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.
Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1889.

NO. 3677.-LEWIS HOPCRAFT, of No. 10, Bethune Road,
Stamford Hill, Middlesex, England, Engineer, has
deposited at this office a specification of an invention for
improvements in self-feeding, self-stoking, and self-cleaning
furnace fire-grates.

No. 3681.-PETER AUGUSTUS DUNNE, of Tocumwal, New
South Wales, Postmaster, has deposited at this office a spe-
cification of an invention for improved means for coupling
poles, shafts, and traces to vehicles.

And I have appointed Friday, the 31st 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 16th day of
January 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, 22nd October, 1888.

N 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 litera-
ture 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.

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Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.
Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1889.

N O. 3675.-WILLIAM ABRAHAM NEWMAN, of Hyde Street,
Dunedin, New Zealand, Plasterer, has deposited at
this office a specification of an invention for the curing of
smoky chimneys, and to be known as "Newman's Patent
Spiral Smoke-cure."

No. 3676.-JAMES THORN GOODFELLOW, of New York, in
the United States of America, Engineer, has deposited at
this office a specification of an invention for improvements
in or connected with railway carriages, wagons, and plat-
forms, and in draft-bars for same.

No. 3678.-EDWARD LOOMES, of Southampton Street,
Sydenham, Canterbury, New Zealand, late Farmer, has de-
posited at this office a specification of an invention for storing
and conveying butter free from the ill effects of shaking and
variations of temperature, to be called "The Canterbury
Butter-box."

No. 3679.-PETER WALKER, of Musselburgh, St. Kilda,
Otago, New Zealand, Blacksmith, has deposited at this
office a specification of an invention for an improved diamond
harrow, to be called "Walker's Patent Self-fixing Tine-
harrow."

No. 3680.-JAMES WATKIN KINNIBURGH, of Wellington,
New Zealand, Clerk, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of an invention for the automatic launching of ships'
boats in a heavy sea, to be called "Kinniburgh's Automatic
Boat-launching Apparatus."

And I have appointed Wednesday, the 17th day of July 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 2nd day of July
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.

Correspondence for New Zealand Railway Commissioners.

Railway Department (Head Office),
15th May, 1889.

T is hereby notified for general information that cor-
respondence on Working Railway matters should now be
addressed to

"The N.Z. Railway Commissioners,
Government Buildings, Wellington."

By order of the Commissioners.
E. G. PILCHER,
Acting Secretary.