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Notice of Patent.

NOTICE is hereby given that an application has been made to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand by ROBERT ATKINSON, of Hartley’s Beach, at the Kawarau Junction, in the Province of Otago, in the Colony aforesaid, Miner, for the Grant to him, the said Robert Atkinson, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns of Letters Patent, under the Seal of the said Colony, for the exclusive use, enjoyment, and advantage, within the said Colony, of a new invention or improvement for raising “Wash Dirt” from the auriferous beds of lakes, rivers, and creeks: And notice is hereby further given, that any person who may wish to prefer any objection to the granting of such Letters Patent, is hereby required within four months from the date hereof, to send in to the office of Charles Knight, of Auckland, in the Province of Auckland, in the Colony aforesaid, Esquire, M.D., (being the person appointed for that purpose under the provisions of the “Patents Act, 1860”) a statement in writing, setting forth the grounds of such objection, and subscribed with the proper name and address of the person so objecting.

Dated at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, aforesaid, this sixth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

GILLIES & TURTON,
Solicitors for the said Robert Atkinson.

General Government Notices.

A PROCLAMATION.

Extending Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Christchurch, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Wairarapa.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the “Resident Magistrates’ Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862” it is enacted that every case of a claim for debt or damages such as might at the passing of the said Act, be lawfully tried in a Resident Magistrates’ Court, where the debt or damages claimed do not exceed Twenty Pounds, may be tried in any Resident Magistrates’ Court with respect to which this Act shall be in operation when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed Fifty Pounds.

And it is provided that the Governor may by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Colony, declare that the limit of jurisdiction of any such Court shall be extended to one hundred pounds and such limit of jurisdiction shall be in such case extended accordingly:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said recited Act, and of an Order in Council, dated the 17th day of December, 1862, authorising the issue of Proclamations under the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said recited Act, and especially the powers conferred by Sections two and three thereof shall be exercised to the limit of jurisdiction of One hundred pounds in the Resident Magistrate’s Courts at Christchurch, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Wairarapa. And I do further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from the eighth day of July. One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s Command,
WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

N. Z. Gazette, 11th May, 1864.

Enquiries respecting Ross Cunningham.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th May, 1864.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting a person named Ross Cunningham, whose description is given below, any one who can give any information respecting him is requested to communicate with this Office.

W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.