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section 3 of “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” are, by direction of the Hon. the Native Minister, published for public information.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under-Secretary.

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“THE NATIVE LANDS FRAUDS PREVENTION ACT 1881 AMENDMENT ACT, 1888.”—PROHIBITED DEALINGS WITH NATIVE LANDS.

5. It shall not be lawful for any person to negotiate, either on his own behalf or as agent or trustee for any other person, for the purchase, conveyance, transfer, lease, exchange, or occupation of any Native land, or of any land, or any estate, right, title, or interest therein, or for any agency or authority to deal therewith or in relation thereto, unless such land is now owned under Crown grant, memorial of ownership, or certificate of title issued under either a Native Land Court Act or a Land Transfer Act to not more than twenty Natives, or unless such land shall hereafter become and shall have been so owned for forty days.

6. Forthwith upon any land hereafter becoming owned by not more than twenty Natives as aforesaid, it shall be a duty of the Chief Judge to notify the same in the Gazette, and also the name and description of the land, and the time when the said forty days will expire.

7. Any person who, on his own behalf or as agent or trustee for any other person, shall take or accept any conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance from any Native, whether to himself solely or to himself and others, of any Native land or of any land not heretofore owned as aforesaid, or which, becoming hereafter so owned, shall not have been owned for forty days as aforesaid, or who shall be a party to any negotiation, agreement, contract, or promise for the making to him, or to him and others, or to any other person, of any such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance, or for the accepting or giving of any such agency or authority, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

Every such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, and other assurance, agreement, contract, promise, agency, and authority shall, except as hereinafter provided, be illegal and void:

Provided that no person shall be convicted of any offence aforesaid except on the information or complaint of some person duly authorised in that behalf by the Governor, either generally or in respect of some particular case.

“THE NATIVE LANDS FRAUDS PREVENTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1889.”

3. The words “to not more than twenty Natives” in section five of “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888” (hereinafter called the said Act”), shall not apply to land owned by Natives under Crown grant, memorial of ownership, or certificate of title under either a Native Land Court or a Land Transfer Act issued before the passing of the said Act, or in respect to which an order had been made by the Native Land Court for the issue of a Crown grant, certificate of title, or memorial of ownership, or an order under “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” declaring the owners or person entitled on investigation of title or partition, before passing of the said Act:

(1.) If such land does not exceed five thousand acres in area; or

(2.) If a contract in writing for the alienation of such land of any area, or any part thereof, had been made and not completed before the passing of the said Act.

And the said section shall be read and construed in respect of such lands as though the said words “to not more than twenty Natives” had been omitted therefrom: Provided that nothing in the said fifth section shall be deemed to prevent a lease of land so owned or the subject of such order as aforesaid not exceeding ten thousand acres.

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Person registered as Patent Agent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that

LEONARD OWEN HOWARD TRIPP,

of the firm of Chapman, FitzGerald, and Tripp, Barristers and Solicitors, Wellington, has been duly registered as a Patent Agent, under section 126 of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1889.”

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

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Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned applications for patents have been accepted, and are open to public inspection.

Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the grant of the patent, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection.

No. 4244.—JOB OSBORNE, of Winfield Farm, Doyleston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. An invention for improvements in apparatus for sinking artesian wells.

No. 4245.—CHARLES BURGON, of La Plata Works, Malin Bridge, Sheffield, England, Sheep-shear Manufacturer. An invention for improvements in machines for shearing or clipping sheep and other animals.

No. 4246.—FREDERICK FLAVALL, of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention to be called “Flavall’s Patent Separating Check Feeder for Threshing Machines.”

No. 4247.—ALFRED ARGLES, of Waikaia, Otago, New Zealand, Miner. A displacement of water and mercury, also oils, acids, or any liquid body, by stroke and pressure under water, without vacuum, and no waste.

No. 4248.—THOMAS GREGORY, of Southport, England, Watchmaker.—An invention for improvements in self-registering and checking apparatus for tramcars and omnibuses, and like purposes.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

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Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that CHARLES WILLIAM HAWKINS, of 94, George Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Medical Herbalist, has applied to register, under “The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1889,” the trade mark of which the following is a description:—

Description of Trade Mark.

The word “Excelina.”

Nature of the Articles to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.

A medical preparation and an ointment.

Class of Goods in connection with which the Applicant desires the Trade Mark to be registered.

Class No. 3.

Any person may, within two months of the date of this Gazette, give notice, in duplicate, at this office, of opposition to the registration of the trade mark.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

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Napier Savings Bank Balance-sheet.

BALANCE-SHEET of the Napier Savings Bank from 1st January to 31st December, 1889.

1889. Jan. 1. By Balance at Union Bank .. £ 1,910 8 2
      Balance in hand .. 25 15 0
      Cash deposited .. 3,719 15 7
      Mortgages refunded .. 725 0 0
      Interest refunded .. 595 8 3
      Interest per Union Bank .. 61 15 9
      Refund charges .. 2 2 0
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      £7,040 4 9

1890. Dec. 31. To Deposits withdrawn .. £ 3,995 7 5
      Deposits in cash .. 103 12 5
      Mortgages advanced .. 1,900 0 0
      Charges .. 160 18 3
      Charges, Suspense Account (insurance) .. 24 16 6
      Balance at Union Bank .. 810 16 4
      Balance in hand .. 44 13 10
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      £7,040 4 9

1891. ASSETS.
      Dec. 31. Balance at Union Bank .. £ 810 16 4
      Balance in hand .. 44 13 10
      Mortgages .. 9,280 0 0
      Interest due on mortgage .. 301 4 0
      Value of land and buildings .. 1,150 0 0
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      £11,586 14 2

1892. LIABILITIES.
      Dec. 31. Amount due depositors .. £ 10,445 1 6
      Sundries outstanding .. 10 0 0
      Balance to credit .. 1,131 12 8
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      £11,586 14 2

1893. Jan. 1. Balance down .. .. £ 1,131 12 8