THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 867, 12 October 1888, Page 12

THE GAZETTE.

Lieut. A. P. Douglas, R.N., of the New Zealand Militia, has been appointed Major, and also Staff-Officer of. Artillery and Inspector of Ordnance Stores and Equipments. -. . The following patents have been apr plied for during the week t —Leslie Morrison, of Auckland, corn-broom maker, for lighting fires, to be called or styled “ Tfie Everlasting Firelighter ” ; Edward Hale Gulliver, M.A., of Mangare, Auckland, clerk in holy orders,' for more easily opening boxes, packages, envelopes, &c., to bo called “Gulliver’s, Patent Aperio ”; Robert Percy Chatfield and Spencer Derby Chatfield, of Auckland, clerks, for an improved , portable cool chamber ; William Carver, of Dunedin, carriage builder, William Robert Carver, of the same place, carriage-body maker, and Arthur Coverly Carver, of the same place, carriage painter, for - a parlour billiard-board ; Robert Skeoch, of Dunedin, warehouseman, and David Hope Johnston, of Wingatui, farmer, for the deodorisation of nightsoil, and. the manufacture of artificial manure there-, from, by kiln-drying the said nightsoil and mixing therewith pulverised clay and sawdust,, also for the deodorisation of nightsoil, and the manufacture of artificial manure therefrom, by mixing therewith pulverised scoria ; William Andrew Young, of Wellington, omnibus proprietor, for improvements in vehicles to be used on common roads and street tramways ; Banter Clapcott, of Remuera, Auckland, gentleman, for enticing and securing wild rabbits, to be known as “ The Excellent Rabbit Decoy.”