THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 33

THE GAZETTE.

English starlings an 1 Australian magpies are, included within the Animals Protection Act,1ßß0. Messrs R. C. Miller, C. Tanner, H. J‘Twiggy and A. Luxford are appointed members of the Pitone Licensing Coni.m it tee ; and C. Doney, J. R- Elliott, T. Foreman, A. J. McEwen, and R. NVell--wbod for the Reretaunga district. Mr E. Y. Red ward lias been appointed ■clerk in the Crown Law Office, vice Mr E. <C. Batkin, retired. : , Mr F. A. Orbell, of Wellington, has Reel appointed a sworn valuator under the Land Transfer Act. , • The following notice to chemists and druggists has been issued :— * * The attention of all persons who sell, or keep open shops for retailing, dispensing, or compounding, poisons is called to the fact that the preparation commonly known as * Get there ’ contains arsenic, or consists of colored or prepared arsenic, and is therefore a poison within the terms of part I. of the first schedule to the Sale of Poisons Act, 1871. Attention is also called to the provisions of section 12 of that Act, which prescribes the regulations to be obseis'ed in tlie sale of. poisons, as there is reason to believe that "these regulations are not always strictly carried out as respects the poison above referred to.” The following list of successful and un:sucessful tenders is published for general information, for the Awapurua formation and protective works contract, Wellington - Woodville Railway : Accepted : Alexander Peebles, Woodville, L 3936 12s. Declined: J. C. Alexander, Wanganui, L 4182 ' 7s ; Cranby and’Prebble, Port Ahuriri, L 4358 os lid; D. Scally, Wanoauui, L 4582 (is lid ; D. Younger =and A. Living,' Feilding, L 4793 17s ; P. fiscally, Woodville, L 4797 2s _ 6d ; A. McFarlane, Wanganui, L 4856 13s; Bryant and Worsnop, Waipawa, L 5030 ; W. G:i Bassett, -Wanganui, L 5494. The following patents have been applied for during the week William Earland, ,of Dunedin, chemist, for trapping moths ; George Cookson, of Christchurch, gardener, for sifting cinders, to be called “ G. Cookson’s Self-acting Cinder-sifter ;” ■Charles Mytton Brooke, of Ashburton, for making a tasteless solution.of strychnine for .use in- poisoning wheat for small "birds, oats or -apples for rabbits, and bread - or any other vehicle for vermin ; ... James Barker Robbie, of New Plymouth, carpenter, for an improvement on the -vertical washing, wringing and mangling machine, to be called “ The Improved Combined Vertical Washing, Wringing, Vand Mangling Machine and Honey Extractor Thomas Danks, of Christ-, ■church, engineer, for heating water, to be called “ The Rapid Water-heater;” James Randall Gascoigne, gentleman, and James Slater, architect and engineer, both of Auckland, fortheelectricplantprotector; Walter Cole, of Wellington, architect, for improvements in fche manufacture of fuel j William Hebei* Brightwell, of Okaiawa, Taranaki, farmer, for a butter-mould ; -Charles Taylor, Roderick Impey Murchison, and George Sharpe, all of Melbourne, importers, for a new composition for.deweeds, scrub, and other vegetable growths, tand for destroying insects and preseivin" timber from their, attacks; Carl Albert Falstedt, of Sydney, gentleman, for an improved safety explosive-eom-pound (the sanie having been communi•cated to him from abroad by Carl Lamm, of Stockholm, Sweden) ; Fairlie Harold TrOnson, of \Vellington, draughtsman, for improvements ill stamps for marking on Raid substances such as wood oi* iron, to be called “ The Silhouette Stamp Jabez Hay, of Invercargill, engineer, for _ re--<rulating the depth at which drainmgulouJis will work from the surface of the ground, and to be- called “ Hay’s Patent •Coulcer ;” Jabez Hay, of Invercargill, for automatically lifting drain-ploughs out of -the ground and forming a sledge for moving same when required, to be called “Hay’s Patent Self-acting Drain-plough Lifting Levers ;” George Smaill, of Inch•Clutha, Otago, farmer, for an improved .strainer for wire-fencing, to be known as “ TheGein Wire-strainer ;” John Stevenson, of Henley, Otago, farmer, and ■Charles Sanders Wright, Dunedin, engineer, for . improvements , in sheepbranding and such-like machines ; -Charles Sanders Wright, engineer, John. ■Christie, plumber, and Thomas Reid •Christie, plumber, all of Dunedin, for improvements in flexible pulleys, spring wheels, &c.; Clement Kind, of Christchurch, die-sinker, and Henry Selwood Austin, of Christchurch, solicitor, for -niakin" hooks from all kinds of sheet Tnetals°in a cheaper aud speedier manner than hitherto in use, to be. called - lho ■C.K. hooks Henry Corrick, of Christchurch, bootmaker, for a time-table, to be called “ The Ready Time-table ; Robert Burton, of Masterton, for an improved elevator, to be called “ Burton s Eclipse Attached Folding Elevator.” The following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders for the supply of ironbark timber for the New Zealand railways is published for general information North Island railways.—Hewn timber, foi ■delivery at Wellington—James. Fox, 21s ' per 100 ft (accepted) ; C W. Turner 2os per 100 ft (declined) ; Cuff and Graham, 21s lOd per 100 ft. llurunui-Bluff Railway.—Hewn timber, delivery at .Lyttelton, at per 100 ft -James Fox (accepted), 21s; C. W.. Turner, 235; Cuff and Graham, 21s 3d ; Findlay and Co , 23s 4d. For piles, at per lineal foot—James Fox, Is lOd ; C. W. Turner, 2s 3d ; Cuff and Graham, Is Hid ; Findlay and Co., 2s 2d. ' V',. , . ' The' following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders for the supply of. 20 j

tons galvanised barbed "fencing-wire:for the New Zealand railways is published for general information Delivered at Wellington, 5 tons, at.per ton : —Mason, Struthevs and Co. (accepted), Ll 9 19s; T. and S. Morrin and Co., L 22 ;J. Dutliie and Co., L2l 10s ; A. Briscoe and Co., L2l 4s 6d ; H. North and Co., L2l 10s.