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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official signatures thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. WOODWARD,
ACTING-PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.
VOL. XI.] TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1864. [No. 22.
Patent Notice.
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 and TURTON,
Solicitors for the said Robert Atkinson.
£1000 Reward.
AVAILABLE GOLD FIELD.
Superintendent's Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1862.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Provincial Government of Wellington, will award a Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding the whole amount of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to any one person, or distributable rateably amongst any number of persons, who shall discover and make known to the existence of an available Gold Field within the Province of Wellington.
All claims for the payment of this Reward, or any portion of it, are to be sent in to the Government, addressed to the Provincial Secretary in the first instance, by whom they will be afterwards referred to the decision of a Commission consisting of three persons, one to be named by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and two by the Superintendent.
By "Available Gold Field" is meant a district within which Gold shall be judged by the Commissioners to exist capable of affording employment to a body of not less than six hundred (600) diggers at a remunerative rate of wages.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1864, No 22
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🏭 Application for Letters Patent for gold mining invention
🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry6 March 1864
Patent, Gold mining, Invention, Otago, Application
- Robert Atkinson, Applicant for Letters Patent
- Charles Knight (Esquire, M.D.), Appointed to receive patent objections
- Gillies and Turton, Solicitors
🌾 Reward offered for discovery of an available gold field
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources15 January 1862
Gold field, Reward, Wellington, Prospecting, Mining
- I. E. Featherston, Superintendent