THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 826, 30 December 1887, Page 1

THE GAZETTE.

Lieutenant Herbert James Williams is gazetted Captain to the Thorndon Rifle Volunteers. The New Zealand war medal has been issued to Sergeant John H. Dooley, No. 4 Division, Armed Constabulary, in addition to several other services in various rifle corps. . \ ‘ The Reefton Electrical Transmission of Power and Lighting Company is authorised to erect an electric line. It is notified that the public offices in this Colony, excepting the Postal and Telegraph and Customs, will be closed on Thursday, the 26th January, 1888, in celebration of the centenary anniversary of the colony of New South Wales. The following patents have been applied for during the week : —Richard Callon, of Ravensbourne, ironfounder, and George Goodlet, engineer, of the same place, for converting malleable cast-iron into malleable cast-steel ; Emanuel Wooffindin, of Seadown, Temuka, pipe-maker, for making pipes by roller pressure ; John Rose, of Caversliam, a rise for straining and holding wire ; Frank Oakden, of Dunedin, architect, for straining wire fences ; Thomas Ferguson, of Melbourne, bottler, for an apparatus for drawing aerated liquids from fonts or reservoirs ; Walter Cole, of Wellington, architect, for fixing blocks for use in brick, stone, or concrete buildings; Thomas George Stevens, of Swanscombe, Kent, England, for apparatus for controlling ships’ rudders ; Saul Joshua, of Melbourne, merchant, for an improved compound to be used as a substitute for methylated spirits; Benjamin Thomas Lacy, of San Francisco, machinery merchant, for improvements in crushing rolls ; Daniel Bernard Bate, or Auckland, engineer, for the electrical combination machinery , plant ; Arthur Houghton, of Manukau, Wellington, for an improved method of advertising ; Ralph Sneyd Smith, of St. Albans, Canterbury, mechanic, for Sneyd Smith’s telephone or microphone relay; Robert Norrie Cowan and Robert Archibald Hearn, of Wellington, plumbers, for an automatic water flush for closets and urinals ; William Matthews Taylor, of Ashburton, for an improved fire escape ; Pierre Finch Martineau Burrows, of Auckland, architect, for “The Novelty Folding and Adjusting Step-ladder;” Edward Thomson Firth, of Auckland, electrician, for the Lone Star electriclight mast-arm. The following are the successful tenderers for the supply of coal for the local railways, Wellington section : Westport Coal Company, for Wallsend coal, at 19s per ton.