THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8167, 19 August 1887, Page 2

THE GAZETTE.

Henry Clinton Salkeld Baddeley is gazetted as Sheriff of the Auckland district, also to be a Resident Magistrate for the same district. J

James Purnell, late Captain Wanganui City Rifles, is gazetted an Honorary Major. Letters of naturalisation have been issued as follow Niels C. Jensen, carpenter, Henry King, bee farmer, Pahiatua; David C. Rejard, Carl Schultz, laborer, Gustav Schultz, baker, Masterton ; Hermans August Lutze, farmer, Hans C. Gronn, carter, Marton; Edwin White, laborer, Featherston; Johann August Roy, sawmiller, Ekelahuna ; Robert Bochnig, farmer, Peter Hansen Boisen, livery at ible keeper, Joseph Krivan, jun., settler, Palmerston North. The Bluff Harbor Board notify thatthetidal signals will, in future, be made from the flagstaff on the top of the Bluff Hill. . These signals are as provided by clause 3 of the General Harbor Regulations for the harbors of New Zealand. Flood-tide : Two halls vertical, at masthead, not less than 6ft apart. Last quarter-flood ; Three balls vertical, at masthead, with not less than 6ft between each. Ebb-tide : One ball at masthead. The Harbormaster, Otago, reports that he has found it necessary to shift the outer beacon of the two leading beacons placed on the Sandspit as a guide for crossing Otago Bar. As they are now placed, and when in line from seaward, they will bear S. 23deg. 30 W. magnetic nearly. Coal from Wellington to-Petone will be charged 3s 2d per ton. The following applications for patents have been received : —An invention for a simplex telephone enunciator, by Frank Oakden, of Dunedin, architect; an invention for improvements in automatic apparatus for giving warning incase of fire, to be called “Tronson’a patent automatic electric fire-alarm,” by Fairlie Harold Tronson, of Wellington, patent agent; an invention for converting any table or other knife into a perfect tobacco-cutter, by Edward Percy Amesbury, D. of Masterton; an invention for the Solway rabbit poisoner, by Donald Donald, of Solway, Masterton; an invention for improvements, in sewers, drains, aud cesspools, by Harry Robert Newton, of Tbameside, Surrey; ah invention for an electric device for operating the controlling valve of elevator engines from the car (being a communication from Cyrus W. Baldwin of Chicago ; on invention for improvements in and relating to elevator engines and cars’(being a communication from Cyrus W. Baldwin, of Chicago), by William Frank Hall, temporarily residing at Melbourne ; an invention for Jenkinson’s patent concrete water and drain pipes, by Robert Jonkiuson, of Auckland ; an invention for a box or case for the packing and preservation of oheeieand other dairy produce, meats, and other condiments, to ba called “The Colonial Packing-box,” by Alexander Harvey, of Auckland ; an invention for a refrigerator for cooling and aerating liquids, &0., to be called “ The Hygeia Refrigerator,” by Alexander Harvey, of Auckland; an invention for gathering

flowers and fruit, to be called ‘‘Talbot’s flower and fruit-gatherer,” by John Shrews Talbot, of Auckland ; an invention for Stalker’s grating check, by John Stalker, of Tinwald, New Zealand; an invention for a clothes-horse, to be called “ The Nursery Folding Clothes-horse,” by Thomas William Foster and Daniel Thomas King, both of Carterton, cabinetmakers ; an invention for Lough’s low-level wool-press, by Henry Shirley Lough, of Canterbury ; an invention for improvements in hydraulic steering-gear, to be called and known as “Hart’s Whee’-detached Need ratio Purchase Hydraulic Steering-gear,” by James Hart, of Wellington, officer of Customs ; an invention for a wool or hop-press, to be called “The Canterbury Wool-press,” by James Elliott Thomson, of Christchurch. Three scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. The Gazette contains the terms and conditions of sale of the Alfredton Village Settlement, Wellington Land District; also land set apart on deferred payment in the Wellington district.