JUNE 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 651

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th May, 1889.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned special
claim cancelled:—
The United Alpine Gold-mining Company, Lyell District;
42 acres 3 roods 4 perches, Karamea Mining District. No. 863.
T. W. HISLOP,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Reward of £10,000 offered for the Discovery of New Gold-
fields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1888.

REWARDS of £10,000 are offered for the discovery of new
goldfields, upon the amended conditions set forth
hereunder.
G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. The maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved
   discovery of a new goldfield in accordance with these condi-
   tions is £5,000 for the North Island, and £5,000 for the
   Middle Island.
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 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.

Officiating Ministers for 1889.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th June, 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 name of an Offi-
ciating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information:--
Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.
The Reverend William Campbell Waters, M.A.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

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

THE Court Turnagain, situated at Herbertville, is regis-
tered as a branch of the Hawke's Bay District,
Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, under "The
Friendly Societies Act, 1882," this 5th day of June, 1889.
EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice of Hearing of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 30th May, 1889.

NO. 3712.—WALTER BROWN, of Farish Street, Welling-
ton, New Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this
office a specification of an invention for improvements in
apparatus for dressing New Zealand flax.
No. 3713.—JAMES ROBERT BROWNE, of Wellington, New
Zealand, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of an invention for Lewthwaite's method of construct-
ing breakwaters, groins, moles, sea-walls, foundations for

lighthouses, coast defences, roadways through and over
rivers, and other like works (communicated by John Lewth-
waite, of 51, Lambs Conduit Street, Holborn, London, Middle-
sex, Engineer).

No. 3714.—CHARLES JEDEDIAH LEE, of Universal Cham-
bers, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Importer, has
deposited at this office a specification of an invention for
securing and locking nuts on through screw-bolts, to be
called "The Patent Self-acting Nut Locker for Screw-bolts"
(being a communication from abroad by Ethan Bradley
Keith, of Kalamazo-Kalamazo, County Michigan, United
States of America, Engineer, inventor of the aforesaid
invention).

No. 3715.—JAMES REYNOLDS, of Hokitika, New Zealand,
has deposited at this office a specification of an invention for
a spring window-rack, to be known as "J. Reynolds's
Spring Window-rack."

No. 3716.—CHAPMAN EWEN, of Tamahere, Waikato,
Auckland, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of an invention to be called "Chapman Ewen's
Combined Potato-separator and Bagging Machine."

No. 3717.—GEORGE WILLIAM GRAINGER, of Napier, New
Zealand, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of an invention for a drum and ratchet-lever press.

And I have appointed Wednesday, the 7th day of August
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 23rd 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, 3rd June, 1889.

NO. 3718.—GEORGE KILGOUR, of 2, Victoria Mansions,
Victoria Street, Westminster, England, Civil Engineer,
has deposited at this office a specification of an invention
for a method of sorting minerals or other bodies, and
apparatus therefor.

No. 3719.—HENRY YOUNG, of Cromwell, Otago, New Zea-
land, Plumber, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention to be called "Young's Anti-profanity Emer-
gency Button."

No. 3721.—ROBERT ORR, of the Lower Hutt, Wellington,
New Zealand, Law Clerk, has deposited at this office a
specification of an invention for improvements in dressing
New Zealand flax, to be called "Orr's Phormium Tenax
Fibre Process."

No. 3722.—GEORGE THOMPSON, of Hobson Street, Auck-
land, New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specifica-
tion of an invention for dressing flax, to be called "Thomp-
son's Patent Improved Flax-dressing Machine."

No. 3723.—JOHN ROBERT PERRY, of Dunedin, New
Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of an
invention for raising stones, sand, gravel, and débris of all
kinds usually met with in alluvial mining.

And I have appointed Thursday, the 8th day of August
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
July 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 Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1889.

NO. 3720.—HENRY WILLIAM SHEPHARD, of Walter Street,
Granville, New South Wales, Engineer, has deposited
at this office a specification of an invention for improve-
ments in the construction of movable fire-bars, and in the
ash-pans of locomotive, land, marine, and other boilers.

And I have appointed Friday, the 28th day of March
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 13th day of
March 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.