Mar. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 259

Will accepted by the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1890.

In the matter of the will of Margaret Duffy, late of Oamaru, deceased.

IT 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.

Tenders.

Railway Commissioners’ Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1890.

THE following list of accepted tenders is published for general information.

By order of the Commissioners.

E. G. PILCHER,
Secretary.

Leases of Refreshment-rooms on the New Zealand Railways, for Three Years, ending on the 31st December, 1892.

Native Assessors elected.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th March, 1890.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hands of the respective Returning Officers, that the undermentioned persons have been elected to be the Native Assessors for the Native licensing districts set opposite their names respectively:—

CLEMENT NEWTON .. .. .. Raglan.
TIMI WAATA .. .. .. Omataroa.
KEEPA WAATA .. .. .. Omataroa.
TE WAATA RANGIKOTUA .. .. Omataroa.
PAORA TE PAKIHI .. .. .. Waioeka.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Under-Secretary.

Notice directing Attention to the Provisions of the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Acts on the Subject of Prohibited Dealings with Native Lands.

Native Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1889.

SECTIONS 5, 6, and 7 of “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888,” and 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.

“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.

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th March, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned applications 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. 4249.—GEORGE HERBERT ROYCE, of Townsville, Queensland, Engineer. An invention for an improved automatic machine for the delivery of prepaid articles.

No. 4250.—PETER YOUNG, of Grange Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Gold Miner. An invention for testing and working for gold in the beds of rivers, creeks, and sea beaches, to be called “Young’s Patent Torpedo Digger.”

No. 4251.—PETER YOUNG, of Grange Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Gold Miner. An invention for gold-saving by electricity, to be called “Young’s Electrical Gold-saving Apparatus.”

No. 4252.—ELIZABETH ANN LOUISA MACKAY, Wife of Robert Mackay, of Suburban North, Nelson, New Zealand, Hotelkeeper. An invention for exterminating rheumatics, to be called “Mrs. Mackay’s Rheumatic Exterminator.”

No. 4241.—JOHN HAROLD ARTHUR, of Auckland, New Zealand, Confectioner. An invention to be called “Arthur’s Chewing Wax.”

No. 4254.—HENRY SMITH HALL, Engineer, and JAMES COOPER CAIRNS, Commission Agent, both of Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand. An invention for “Hall and Cairns’s Patent Flax-bleacher and -cleaner.”

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

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th March, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned applications 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,