THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 29

THE GAZETTE.

With reference to the notice in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 45, of the 14th July, 1887, page 935, tlie full-dress uniform of staff officers of Militia and Volunteer districts will remain, as hitherto, a scarlet one, according to the dress regulations for her Majesty’s Militia service. The undress will also be as laid down in dress regulations—a blue patrol-jacket or frock-coat. The following despatch, received from her Majesty’s Pi-incipal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information: —“With reference to the telegraphic correspondence which has passed on the subject, I have the honor to acquaint you, for the information of your Government, that a letter has been received in this Department from the War Office, stating that the month of July in each year has been fixed for the qualifying literary examination of colonial candidates for commissions in the Imperial army. All the colonies concerned, except New Zealand, had expressed a preference for that month.” Letters of naturalisation have been issued as follows : —Rudolph Timmer, stetionhand ; Johannes J. Falk, baker, of Masterton ; Wilhelm Erenstrom, miller; Joseph [Krivan, sen., laborer; Nils Torstonson, farmer ; Carl August Bergersen, gunsmith, Palmerston North ; Anders Nielsen, laborer, Carterton ; and Edvart Tobias Ormundsen, farmer, Heretaunga. The following applications for patents have been received :—An invention for weeding the ballast on railways, to be called 1 ‘ The Railway Track-weeding Machine,” by James Ibbs Lawson, of Invercargill, civil engineer, and Albert Edward Orange, of Riverton, railway inspector ; an invention for an improved tripod harrow, by Robert Cockerell, of Invercargill ; an invention for making soap, to be known as “ Blake’s Kerosene Soap,” by Walter Blake, of Christchurch ; an invention for making soap, to be known as “Blake’s Ammonia and Kerosene Washing Compound,” by Walter Blake, of Christchurch; an invention for improvements in rock-boring or drilling machines, to be known as the “ Slugger Rock-drill,” by Frederic Arthur Halsey, of North Farrytown, County of Westchester, State of New York ; an invention for .an improved means for increasing the draught and consuming the smoke from .steam boilers, by Marie Augustin Despeissis, St Kilda, Victoria, sugar manufacturer ; an invention for improvements in .the treatment of auriferous minerals, by Jules Weirich, of Beziers, Herault, France, engineer; an invention for improvements in gas engines, by William Harper, of Melbourne, merchant; an invention for improvements in the construction of organs, by George Fincham, of Richmond, Victoria, organ-builder; an invention for Galbraith’s simoon iron oxide deoxidising furnace, by David Ranken ShirrefF Galbraith, of Auckland, analytical and consulting chemist ; an invention for reefing sails, to be called : “the sure-reefer,” by George Tracey Stevens, of Auckland ; an invention for regulating pressure of gas through the meter, to be called “Heath’s patent gas-saving gauge,” by Charles Heath, of Auckland, engineer; an invention for washing clothes, called “the handy washer,” by Henry Fancourt, of Dunedin, settler ; an invention for an adjustable saw-handle, to "be called “ Bramley’s patent adjustable saw-handle,” by William Adamson Bramley, of Whangaroa, Auckland, tractor.The Gazette contains the railway traffic returns for the four weeks ending the 23rd July, also the railway working account, together with a table showing the approximate cost of construction of all lines to 31st March, 1887, including expenditure on harbor works forming part of the railway system.