objection subscribed with his proper name and address.

20. No person shall receive a patent under this Act for an invention or discovery which has been previously patented in Great Britain or any other country but it shall be lawful for the Governor in his discretion on the application of any person being the holder or assignee of any patent granted in Great Britain or any other country for any new discovery or invention and upon such proof as the Governor may deem sufficient that such person is the bonafide holder or assignee of the said patent and that the same is in full force and upon payment to the Colonial Treasurer of the sum of ten pounds to grant letters of registration under the Seal of the Colony to the holder of such patent as aforesaid or his assignee and such letters of registration shall be deposited in the Office of the Colonial Secretary and shall be deemed to be letters patent granted under this Act for such invention or improvement and shall have the same force and effect as letters patent granted thereunder and shall unless repealed by writ of scirefacias or otherwise enure to the benefit of the holder during the continuance of the original patent in the country in which it was granted and no longer and all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such letters of registration in the same way mutatis mutandis and as fully as to letters patent granted under this Act.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATTERS REQUIRED

In respect of an application for Letters Patent.

A Statutory Declaration made by the applicant before a Justice of the Peace or Notary Public, that the statements contained in the petition are true, and that the applicant believes himself to be the originator or discoverer of the invention or improvement. Such declaration, if made out of the Colony, must be made before a person authorized to administer oaths, whose authority to do so must be certified by a Notary Public.

A copy of each Newspaper in which, under the seventh section of the Act, the applicant is to advertise notice of the application.

In respect of an application for Letters of registration under Section 20 of the Act.

Duplicate copies of original Patent and Specification, certified by a Notary Public.

Statutory declaration by a professional person, not the claimant, that he has searched the Registry of Patents of the Colony or Country in which the patent issued,-- or that there is no such Registry,-- and that such patent is, according to the laws of the colony or country, still in force, and not assigned or parted with.

Statutory declaration by applicant that he is the person named in the original Letters Patent, and the bona fide holder thereof; or (if claimed under assignment of Patent or Grant of Right), certified copy in duplicate of the Deed or Instrument of Assignment or Grant, with statutory declaration by Claimant annexed, made before a Notary Public, that he is the person named in the copy deed annexed, and that it is a true copy of the original deed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 3rd December, 1867.

It is hereby notified that

JAMES COUTTS CRAWFORD, Esq.,
DANIEL POLLEN, Esq., and
ALFRED ROWLAND CHETHAM STRODE, Esq.,

have resigned their seats in the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and that His Excellency the Governor has accepted such resignations.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 5th December, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,

of Arrowtown, in the Province of Otago, to be a Coroner within the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th November, 1867.

It is hereby notified that in conformity with clause 3 of "The Otago Municipal Corporation Act, 1865," the name of the following person has been sent in to this Office, by the Town Clerk, as having been elected Mayor of Clyde, in the room of J. D. Feraud, Esq., resigned :

DONALD MCPHERSON, Esq.,

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 4th December, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED AUGUSTUS CATOMORE, Esq.,

to be Registrar at Dunedin of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The appointment to date from the 1st January, 1868.

E. W. STAFFORD.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, )
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I have this day filed in this Honorable Court a declaration of Insolvency, pursuant to the provisions of the above Act.

Dated at Dunedin this 16th day of December, 1867.

Martin Butler, of Hamiltons, in the Province of Otago, gold miner.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD,

6s 6d.

Solicitor.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that I have this day filed in this Honorable Court, a declaration of Insolvency, pursuant to the provisions of the above Act.

Dated at Dunedin this 16th day of December, 1867.

Andrew Smith Wilson, manufacturer of Aerated Waters, Dunedin.

EDWARD FRANCIS WARD,

6s 6d.

Solicitor.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the "Bankruptcy Act, 1867."

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Peter Rankin, of Balclutha, in the Province of Otago, Tailor and Draper, has this day filed in this Court at Dunedin, a declaration of Insolvency, under the provisions of the above Act.

Dated this seventeenth day of December, 1867.

SMITH and DEMPSEY,

5s 6d.

Solicitors, High street, Dunedin.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of William O’Donovan Williamson, of Dunedin, labourer, and in the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862," the "Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865," and the "Debtors and Creditors Acts Amendment Act, 1866."

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman, has accepted the above mentioned petition, and has appointed Saturday, the 4th day of January, 1868, at 10 o’clock a.m., at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the hearing thereof.

W. H. M’KEAY,

7s 6d.

Petitioner’s Solicitor.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DICK & Co., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.