CROWN LANDS to the applicant specified in the following schedule.

Julius Vogel,
for Secretary for Land and Works.

Dunedin, 16th December, 1867.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the application made by Thomas Ridge Hacket, for fifteen (15) acres of land situate at Skipper’s Creek, in the District of Queenstown, in the Province of Otago, for Gold Mining purposes has been disallowed, and that the said land is open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

Julius Vogel,
for Secretary for Land and Works.

HUNDREDS DEPASTURING LICENSES.

Settlers in the various Hundreds are reminded that Depasturing Licenses must be taken out before the 1st of January next to qualify to vote in the election of Wardens for 1868.

W. H. Cutten,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 14th December, 1867.

APPLICATION FOR DEPASTURING LEASE

OUTSIDE HUNDREDS.

Notice is hereby given that the following Application for a Depasturing Lease has been made to the Waste Land Board, in accordance with the provision of the ninety-first section of the Otago Waste Land Board; “Any person desiring to object to the grant of such lease may do so by lodging with the Board, within three months after the first publication in the Provincial Gazette of the said application, a statement in writing of the grounds of his objection, and no objection made after the said period of three months shall be entertained by the Board.”

Estimated extent about 6,000 acres.

W. H. Cutten,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 16th December, 1867.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, November 29th, No. 64)

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of November, 1867.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Steam Navigation Act, 1866,” power is given to the Governor in Council to make Regulations whereby a sea-going certificate duly issued to any steam vessel by the lawfully constituted authorities of any British Colony shall be as valid and effectual for the purposes of the said Act as a similar certificate duly issued and in force under the provisions of the said Act:

Provided that it shall be lawful for the Postmaster-General at any time to suspend the operation within New Zealand of any such certificate issued in any other British Colony:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth, by this order, make the Regulations following, that is to say—

Regulations.

A sea-going certificate duly issued to any steam vessel by the lawfully constituted authorities of the Colony of Victoria shall be as valid and effectual for the purposes of “The Steam Navigation Act, 1866,” as a similar certificate duly issued and in force under the provisions of the said Act.

It shall be lawful for the Postmaster-General at any time to suspend the operation within New Zealand of any such certificate.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

From the New Zealand Gazette, December 6, (No. 65.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1867.

LETTERS PATENT and Letters of Registration in New Zealand.

The sections two to seven inclusive and section twenty of “The Patents Act, 1860,” and the Supplementary Matters required in the Patents Office, are published for the information of persons desiring to obtain Letters Patent for inventions or improvements, or Letters of Registration for inventions or improvements already patented elsewhere.

E. W. Stafford.

SECTIONS OF “THE PATENTS ACT, 1860.”

2. Any person being the originator or discoverer of any new invention or improvement for which no patent or instrument in the nature of letters patent has been issued or granted in New Zealand or any other country and being desirous of obtaining letters patent under this Act shall deposit with the Colonial Treasurer the sum of ten pounds and shall leave at the Office or in the custody of such person as the Governor may from time to time or for any particular case appoint a petition addressed to the Governor stating clearly and succinctly the object to be attained by his invention or discovery and praying that letters patent may be granted to him for the exclusive use thereof in the Colony.

3. The inventor shall deliver a written description or specification in duplicate of his invention or improvement and of the manner and process of compounding the same in such full clear and exact terms as to distinguish the same from all other things before known and to enable any person skilled in the art or science of which it is a branch or with which it is most nearly connected to make compound and use the same.

4. In the case of any machine he shall fully explain the principle and the several modes in which he has contemplated the application of that principle or character by which it may be distinguished from other inventions.

5. He shall accompany the whole with drawings and written references made in duplicate where the nature of the case admits of drawings or specimens of the ingredients or the composition of matter sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment.

6. The applicant for a patent shall furnish duplicate drawings wherever the case admits of drawings one of which shall be deposited in the office of the Colonial Secretary or other officer appointed in that behalf and the other shall be annexed to the patent and considered a part of the specification thereof and a copy of the specification shall be in all cases annexed to the patent.

7. Notice of the said application shall be inserted in the Government Gazette and in one newspaper published in the principal town of each Province in the Colony and requiring any person who may wish to prefer any objection to the granting of such letters patent to send within four months of the said publication to the office or address of such person so appointed as aforesaid a statement in writing setting forth the grounds of such objection.