THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 874, 30 November 1888, Page 33

THE GAZETTE.

The Governor has appointed L O'Brien ■and Gj E. Barton to be Judges of the Native Lind Court ; also, H. W. Robin* son, G E. Barton, and L O’Brien to be Trust Commissioners under the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881. The following notices to mariners have been issued : PORT ADELAIDE SEMAPHORE ANCHORAGE. LEADING LIGHTS. Referring to notice No. 12 of 1888, as to the removal of the Beatrice, mariners ■are now hereby informed that on and after the Ist December, 1888, two red lights will be exhibited ashore, one from -the time-ball tower and the other from the fl >gstaff at the shore end of Semaphore Jettv. These lights in line, bearing S.-E. £ S., lead through the deepest water in the semaphore anchorage and up to the ocean steamers’ mooring buoy. Directions —By night : Vea-..-selsapproaching the anchorage should not bring the Port Adelaide light to the ■ north of N.E. until the above lights are in line, theu steer in on that line with the lead going umil the requisite water is vfound or the mooring buoy is picked up. When the red light east of the lighthouse is just closing with the bright light on No 11 beacon the vessel will bo close to the mooring bony. The leading lights will r !not show south of the btll buoy on the Wouga Sho*l, so that vesseU of a suitable • draught, which do not intend to use the (.mooring buoy, may steer for any part of the anchorage as soon as the two red --lights are visible. By day : Keep the lighthouse on the same bearing until the - timeball tower and the water tower are in line, then proceed ns above. The conditions upon which the Royal ’Humane Society of Australasia will . award a bronze medal for proficiency in swimming exercises with reference to life, &e., are published. The sittings of the Supreme Conrt in 'Wellington for the year 1889 are as follows Criminal caseB —January 7th, April Ist, July Ist, October 7th; civil • cases—January 14th, March 18th, June :3rd. August 12th, October 14th. The following patents have been applied for during the week :—Robert Thompson, of Christchurch, music seller, for improvements in apparatus for holding, fixing, and tuning the strings of -.pianofortes and other stringed instruments of the like kind ; Daniel McGill, •of Pitone, mechanical engineer, and Albert William Collett, of the same place, wheelwright, for a weight-adjusting ■ dray ; Valentine Blagrove, of Auckland, master mariner, and WmCraig, of Auckland, plumber, tfor “ Blagrove and Craig’s JPatent Steam iGurer and Dryer by Hot Air William.Andcews, of Christchurch, agricultural engineer, for an improved Jborse-power, -staled “ Andrew’s Simplex Horse-power;;” Alexander William Biekerton, of Christchurch, Professor of "Chemistry, for a foot-crating for scraping ?boots and keeping the feet from damp ; Nathaniel Leroy Raher,. of Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, for improvements in machines for treating vfinely-aivided metalliferous material for the purposes of amalgamation . and separation ; Pierrie Finch Martineau (Burrows, of Auckland, architect, for improvements in step-ladders and for in folding adjustable ladders ; Henry Shirley Lough, 'of Auiberley, farmer, for an improved i press suitable for wool and s one other purposes ; Moses Scott, of Opawa. engineer, for rcfew and hydraulic dredging machine; Robert Cockerell, of Invercargill, agricultural implement msk-r, for a -suspended chain-framed harrow for cultivating the soil, to be known as “ R’. Patent Suspended Chainframed H.rrow;” Edward Hale Gulliver, M.L.C.. of Manga re, Auckland, -.clerk in Holy Orders, and Lienj unin 'Willis Betts,"of Auckland, architect, -..■for an improved lamp, to be called '“The Patent Merid’an Light;” George /Marshall Hewson, of Wellington, cow.mission agent, for the manufacture of polony or fish sausage, to be called or known by the name of “ Hewson’s Ika -John Joseph Howard, of Auckland, artist, for an improved cringle clip, hot k, or Jink, to be called “Howard’s Patent (.Universal .Link William Newaham .Blair and Peter Seton Hay, of Wellington, civil engineers, for obtaining gold and amiferous materials from river-bottoms, ~-&c., to be called “ The Pneumatic Golddrtdgei ;” Daniel McGill, of Pitone, mechanical engiue.er, and Edward Fuhr--xuann CTarke, of Wellington, civil engineer, for a steam air-pump for pumping air under pressure, to be known as “ The iHydropneumatic Compressor.”