THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8524, 2 November 1888, Page 7

THE GAZETTE.

By an Order in Council the Governor directs that the accounts of receipts of revenue in the Department of Customs shall on and after December Ist, 1888, be audited by the officers of the said Department. Lieutenant W. H. S. Moorjiouse is promoted to be captain of the D Battery of. Artillery. The appointment of W. H. Warren, Deputy-Commissioner of Stamps, is cancelled from October 24th. In pursuance of regulations under the Civil Service Reform Act, 1886, notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1890, the period of literature will be the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s “ Merchant of Venice’’and Goldsmiths 1 Vicar of Wakefield.” The following notice to mariners is published The harbourmaster at Manukau reports that since the last survey of the South Channel, at the entrance to the Manukau Harbour, by Captain Johnson, the banks have much changed, and the charts issued in 1853 and 1878 are no longer reliable. The Heron Spit having extended southward about three quarters of a mile, the South Head Beacons have to be brought in line on a bearing of N. by E. | E. to clear it and lead in ; when abreast of the Spit a depth of 5 fathoms will be found at low water spring-tides, gradually shoaling to 2| fathoms between the inner shoals, and then again deepening to fathoms when the beacons on the North Head are brought in line. As the line of approaches is constantly changing, masters of vessels should pay the greatest attention to the steering signals shown from the flagstaff by the pointing of the semaphore-arm, which will guide vessels through the deepest water. The following patents have been applied for during the week ; —William Gadd, of Manchester, England, for improvements relating to the construction of gasholders; Frederick Remfry, of Kew, for an improved attachment to vehicles for holding or pulling up horses ; Abednego Allen, of Coromandel, Auckland, to be called “Allen’s Patent Improved Safety Detaching Hook,” to prevent mining-cages, lifts, &c., being overwound, and “Allen’s Patent Automatic Safety-grips,” to be applied to miningcages, lifts,&c. ;Parnellßabbidge,of Christchurch, for improvements in telephonetransmitters ; Thomas Dick Cummins and. John George Sharpe, of Wanganui, for cleaning or woiking the milk out of butter, to be called “The Excelsior Butter-worker Harry Walter Wells, of Tawa Flat, Wellington, and Edward William Earp, of the same place, for destroying furze and other noxious weeds and plants, to be called “The Furze Destroyer ;” Harry Brougham Smith, of Dunedin, for a combined strainer (for liquids) and basin; James Hopkins Stevens, of Feilding, Charles Wheeler Mountfort, and Charles Adnam Mountfort, for brakes for vehicles, to be called “The Improved Brake Leather Clips;” Joseph Soler, of Wanganui, for the cure of codlin moth on fruit-trees : John Taylor, of Feilding, and Alfred John Mountfort, of the same place, for an iron or other metal wedge and key for securing and removing axe-handles, to be called “The Model Axe-wedge and Key ” ; Joshua Thomas Johns, of Auckland, for simplifying and cheapening trade packages, for jam and other semi-fluid substances, to be called “ John’s Patent Jam Packet,” and for the improvement of jam or other pre-serve-tins or packages, to prevent injury arising from contact of the contents with any deleterious substances that may pertain to the materials of which the tin or package is made, to be called “Johns’s Patent Protected Preserve-tin;” John Francis McCarthy, of Auckland, and Sidney Percival Evans, of Auckland, for preventing the continuous admission of air into a beer barrel, to be called “McCarthy’s Automatic Spile;” John McGregor, of Roslyn, Otago, for an enamel for coating wood, for preserving butter for export or for keeping ; John Stalker, of Tinwald, Canterbury, for a sack-hoist, to be called “ Stalker’s Sackhoist.” =