JULY 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 879

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned 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. 4453.—WILLIAM LEWIS LUXFORD and ALFRED HENRY WYLDS, of Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand, Timber Merchant. An invention for an improved joint and mode of fixing flooring and other jointed boards.

No. 4491.—SAMUEL ASA STOWELL, of Levin, Wellington, New Zealand, Professor of Herbal Medicines. An invention for Professor S. A. Stowell’s Sovereign Specific for the cure for rheumatism, rheumatic gout, lumbago, ulcerated sores, cuts, burns, bruises, scalds, sprains, sore breasts, chilblains, stiff joints, piles, &c.

No. 4493.—JOHN PERKINS JACKSON, of 63, Duke Street, Liverpool, Lancaster, England, Engineer. An invention for improvements in machinery and appliances for, or connected with, the manufacture and dispensing of aerated water.

No. 4494.—JAMES S. THOMSON and ROBERT J. THOMSON, of Waverley, Patea, New Zealand, Settlers. An invention for improvements for dressing New Zealand flax.

No. 4496.—ALBERT SWANSON and WILLIAM DOWNHAM ROWLINGSON, of corner of Lonsdale and Queen Streets, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agents and Consulting Engineers. An invention for improvements in piling wrought scrap-iron. (A communication from Richard Russell Gubbins, of Hourah Lodge, Belvedere, Kent, England, Engineer.)

No. 4497.—JAMES FOSTER, of Hillside Road, Caversham, Otago, New Zealand, Printer. An invention for air-proof butter-box.”

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

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned 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. 4498.—WILLIAM HENRY CUTTEN, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention for saving power as usually applied for lifting water for treating washdirt on board a gold-dredging machine, entitled “Cutten’s Patent Improved System of arranging the Pumping-machinery on Gold-dredgers.”

No. 4499.—THOMAS CHARLES HEMENT, of 148, Hereford Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Plumber. An invention for exhausting foul air, &c., to be called “Hement Brothers’ Sanitary Purifier.”

No. 4500.—IWAN HOFFMANN, of Neuschleussig, near Leipsic, Saxony, Sculptor. An invention for improvements in, or relating to, harness, especially applicable for controlling frightened or runaway horses.

No. 4501.—MIDDLETON CRAWFORD, of 3, Oxford Street, Liverpool, Lancaster, England, Engineer. An invention for improvements in grinding apparatus, more especially applicable for use in grinding and amalgamating ores containing gold and silver.

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

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st January, 1890.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1891, the period of literature will be the period from 1800 to 1850, and the special books will be Milton’s Samson Agonistes, and Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.

T. W. HISLOP.

Rainfall for June, 1890.

Meteorological Office, Colonial Museum,
Wellington, 25th July, 1890.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of June, 1890:—

J. HECTOR,
Director.

Native Land Court Notices.

Sitting of Native Land Court.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Wellington, on the 8th day of August, 1890, to hear and determine the matter mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written, in respect of which an application has been received by the Registrar, and all such other matters as may be lawfully brought before it.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS.