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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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
December 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 Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1889.
N O. 3981.—DAVID REID, of No. 143, Flinders Lane,
Melbourne, Victoria, Publisher, has deposited at
this office a specification of an invention for an improved
key for securing stereotype plates to their base-blocks.
N O. 3983.—JOSHUA CUFF, of Wellington, New Zealand,
a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zea-
land, has deposited at this office a specification of an inven-
tion for the application of water-power by means of hydrau-
lic pressure for all the purposes of motive-power as now
applied by the use of steam to machinery of all descriptions,
and to be called "J. Cuff's Patent Hydraulic Motive-power."
N O. 3984.—RICHARD VERCOE, of Blenheim, Marlborough,
New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for hackling flax-tow.

And I have appointed Thursday, the 19th day of Decem-
ber 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 such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 4th
day of December 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 Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 30th September, 1889.
N O. 3982.—ARTHUR THOMAS METCALF JOHNSON, of No.
104, Simpson Street, East Melbourne, Victoria, Pro-
fessor of Music, has deposited at this office a specification of
an invention for improvements in and relating to automatic
signalling-targets.

And I have appointed Tuesday, the 1st day of April
next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear
the said application and all objections thereto; and I re-
quire all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of
such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 17th 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.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 30th September, 1889.
T HE Hope of Sydenham Division, situated at Sydenham,
is registered as a branch of the Grand Division of
New Zealand of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance of
Australasia Friendly Society, under "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1882," this 30th day of September, 1889.
EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Working-men's Club registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 30th September, 1889.
T HE Palmerston North Working-men's Club and Lite-
rary Institute, situated at Palmerston North, is re-
gistered as a Working-men's Club under "The Friendly
Societies Act, 1882," this 30th day of September, 1889.
EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice to Companies under "The Property Assessment
Act, 1885."

I N accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned
Act, I hereby give public notice that, in respect of Joint-
stock Companies and in respect of Gold-mining Companies,
the 15th day of October next is the date, and my office,
Government Buildings, Wellington, is the place, at which
Public Officers of all companies are requested to furnish
statements of property belonging to such companies, in
accordance with the said Act.
Dated this 2nd day of September, 1889.
J. SPERREY,
Property-tax Commissioner.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1888.
I 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.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke's
Bay.

T HREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable
for two years, are offered for competition. One of
these scholarships is open to all Maoris that have regularly
and continuously attended a Native school during the pre-
vious year, and are under sixteen years of age at the end of
the month preceding the date of the examination; the
other two scholarships are open to all Maoris that are under
fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the
date of the examination, and that have attended a Native
village school regularly and continuously during the previous
twelve months. These scholarships are offered for competi-
tion to Maori youths, on the conditions laid down in the
regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships
Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1886, and in
the supplementary regulations sent out to all teachers in
May of the current year. The examination will be held at
convenient centres on the 16th and 17th December, 1889.
Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers,
send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education
Department, Wellington, of their intention to present them-
selves for examination. Such notice must be posted not
later than the 31st October next.
Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be
obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding insti-
tutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secre-
tary to the Education Department.
JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 26th August, 1889.

Native Land Court Notices.

"The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881," and
"The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment
Act, 1888."

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1889.
N OTICE is hereby given that a Trust Commissioner will,
under the authority and for the purposes of the said
Acts, hold a Court at the Native Land Court Office, Wel-
lington, on Saturday, the 12th day of October, 1889, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, for investigating the cases men-
tioned in the Schedule hereunder, at which time and place
all persons interested in the said cases, and having objec-
tions to any of the dealings, are hereby notified to attend.
W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.
ORANGIKAUPAFA No. 6.
89-155. Transfer dated the 22nd day of June, 1889, from
Raima Hohepa and Himi Enoka to Charles Dowsett.
POLHILL GULLY, SUBDIVISIONS 1 AND 2 OF BLOCK XV.
89-161. Transfer dated the 19th day of September, 1889,
from Agnes Simeon to Frederick Peter Simeon.
MAKARA, SECTION 37.
89-19. Transfer dated the 7th day of February, 1889, from
Heremaia te Wheoro and Kararaima te Wheoro to Robert
Clifford Cook.

Partition of Land under "The Native Land Court Act,
1886."

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 20th September, 1889.
N OTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court,
to be held at Kapanga, in the District of Coromandel,
on the 22nd day of October next, will be heard the applica-
tions of the persons whose names appear in the first column
for the partition of the lands the names of which appear in
the second column, and which are situate in the respective
districts named in the third column.
EDW. HAMMOND,
Registrar.